Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 1 starWarnings: discussion of death and suicide
Mrs Dalloway did nothing for me. I found no notable message in it, and no plot. The latter was something I anticipated - I knew this was a train of thought book about one woman's day. But I expected something to grab my attention. Something that has made Woolf such a notable writer. I felt like I missed something, but maybe a class discussion will change that.
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark - 2 stars
Warnings: death, blood, murder
I don't seem to be having much luck with my required reading, because The Driver's Seat is another classic I didn't quite get. It was a quick and easy read and I did love the original questions it rose. Who is this woman? Why does she act like this? Why does she have such awful taste in clothes? But I didn't understand how she knew things that were never said. Plus the idea Spark was trying to get across felt far too weak to actually take effect.
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