Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

1925 • 282 pages

Ratings276

Average rating3.7

15

It was fine, but I was bored. I mostly only read a page or two at a time, and was never compelled to pick it up again. 

Her style is a bit mind-bending (crimes against semicolons! subclause abuse!) though I concede that there is some really lovely writing in there. I liked the perspective shifting from one mind to another, and the meandering thoughts punctuated by snippets of reality. But it was really all just a bit... nothing. I was craving plot, or drama, or some sort of excitement - nothing happens (except that one brief shocking moment which is then basically put aside for the rest of the novel) - and the style and characters and social commentary weren't enough to counteract that dullness for me.

April 9, 2017