Well, what can I say about this book? I chose this book for one of my book discussion groups and thought it was time for us to read a "classic" again. I'm not sure this was the right choice, but I got thru it.
Mrs. Dalloway is about Clarissa Dalloway and one day in her life. She has planned a party for the evening and we hear about her day and how it progresses to days end with the culmination of the party. Throughout the book you meet many people. Some of those you like and some you don't. Some you don't even care about. I would say to me the most interesting characters were Septimus Warren Smith and his wife Lucrezia.
This book was very hard to read. I find it difficult to get thru a book without chapters and this book didn't have any separations at all for the whole 194 pages. Also, there isn't much dialogue. It is mostly descriptions. The thing that bothered me most was that often you did not know whose point of view the story was coming from because of the lack of any kind of separation. I went thru the SparkNotes so I could at least keep everything straight. It helped tremendously.
The consensus with the book club was that it wasn't that great for them either. One woman did finish it and the other didn't.
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