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Belva, you should read The Hours while Mrs. Dalloway is fresh in your mind as Cunningham's book very closely shadows Virginia Wolf's. As good as the writing in his book is, I don't think he deserved the high praise he did for that reason. On the other hand, it was fun to compare the two and see ... ... reread even more and will visit it again sometime. I also second (or third) the suggestions from Ellie and Berly to read The Hours. I even liked the movie version of it! miss ellie:
Dear heart;
I have The Hours in one of my bookcases with the "dreaded" movie tie-in cover, but I've not yet read it. It sounds really good so with you and Berly both recommending it, I must read it soon. And I loved Mrs. Dalloway!~! And Virginia Woolf; I just find ... Oh, yes, Ellie. The Hours is a good one, too. Best of luck surviving the last minute shoppers and their attitudes. Concentrate on the lovely sound of the cash register! Belva - if you liked Mrs Dalloway, have you read Michael Cunningham's The Hours? It's about three women, each connected in their own way to Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf, a 50s housewife who loves the book, and a kind of modern incarnation of Mrs Dalloway herself... ... books. i suppose i first read it in the 70's and have read it a number of times since, the latest being around the time the hours was made into a movie. ... happens with art too, doesn't it? But, I know what you're saying. By the way, I reread Mrs. Dalloway right before reading The Hours and it made the latter much more interesting. Definitely. It makes me want to read Michael Cunningham's The Hours (I only saw the movie) -- interwoven stories exploring the author, the character and a reader of Mrs. Dalloway.
But with all the opportunities now to hear writers talk about their stories, I increasingly hear them contradict ... ... Jonathan Lethem
13) Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
14) Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
15) The Hours by Michael Cunningham
16) The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton
17) Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
18) White Teeth by Zadie Smith
19) Last Night at the Lobs ... @Nickelini I've just finished The Hours so now on to Mrs Dalloway seems like the right thing to do! ... Virginia Woolfe will spoil this for me. Maybe it will inspire me?
Reading Virginia Woolf will enrich your reading of The Hours. Mrs Dalloway and The Hours are the ultimate companion read combination. Have fun. Finished Count of Monte Christo which was wonderful.
Now just starting The Hours. I'm not sure whether not having read any Virginia Woolfe will spoil this for me. Maybe it will inspire me? Another librarian horror story from film/books . . . I just noticed while rewatching the film The Hours (also from the book), Laura Brown says she commited the most unforgivable act . . . she abandoned her family. But when she abandoned them, what was it she did instead? Become a killer for hire? ... "And Action!":
ideas-The Cider House Rules, The Hours, Fight Club
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5. ... (most likely England) and 1/3 in the USA. It also stands a pretty good chance of being tagged '1001 Books'. That makes it The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Actually, the mix of contemporary and historical fiction in that book makes it even more appropriate. The Hours. It is splendid. The man is a genius. oops, posted in the wrong place :) ... Disgrace
78 Sputnik Sweetheart
80 Intimacy
81 Amsterdam
85 Tipping the Velvet
86 The Poisonwood Bible
89 The Hours
90 Veronika Decides to Die
92 The God of Small Things
93 Memoirs of a Geisha
95 Enduring Love Finished The Hours by Michael Cunningham today. A well written novel re-examining the themes of Mrs Dalloway. I enjoyed the film which I saw a few years ago, but the book has greater depth I think. ... Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Beloved by Toni Morrison
6. PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
7. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
8. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayers
9. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
10. The Jane Austen Book Club by ... 29. (New) A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
30. (New) The Hours by Michael Cunningham ... Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Veronika Decides to Die
The Poisonwood Bible
Elementary Particles
Fear and Trembling
The Hours
The Story of O
The Mandarins
Bonjour Tristesse
The Quite American
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
The Player of Games
The Long Dark Tea Time of ... ... of God
Lolita
The Master
Ascent of Money
Time Out Shortlist Dubai: For trip planning
All the King's Men
The Hours
Islam (A Short History)
Mothers and Sons: Stories
And I just downloaded:
Pillars of the Earth for the group read.
... ed).
3. I'm reading it as part of the Orange July challenge.
4. Maybe six months.
5. The tone is reminding me of The Hours, a book that I really like.
6. About what I expected. I'm a little frustrated because we know immediately that the main character was just released from ... 57> I agree with you about The Hours.
I recently finished Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. He does a pretty decent job with his protagonist, Eilis Lacey. The novel's focus is more on Irishness and emigration than what I'd call "women's issues" (although she does have her issues with men, her ... Reading this post, the first one that sprung to mind was The Hours - it is an incredible book and his depiction of Laura Brown particularly was astounding. The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hours
The House of Mirth
Howards End
Ivanhoe
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Kidnapped
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last Temptation of Christ
Little Women The first thing I thought of was The Hours, but that's only three women, and they certainly weren't in college together...... #80 unaluna - I've read The Hours and now have read Mrs Dalloway but did not do it justice - see post #59. I did start Madame Bovary a couple of years ago but didn't get far before I had to take it back to the library, then got my own copy and haven't read it, so will be reading it over the ... ... it. I hope you like it when you get to it. Mrs. Dalloway is another of my favourites. Out of curiousity, have you read The Hours? Also, Lonely Werewolf Girl is great and wonderful too! Martin Millar is one of my very favourite writers, I've been hoarding his stuff for years. I'm glad Soft ... ... Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (31 August)
7. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh 25 September)
8. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (29 September)
9. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen (4 October
... Remains of the day *
61- The english patient
62- The secret history
63- A fine balance
64- Alias Grace *
65- The hours *
66- The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay *
67- Life of Pi
68- The corrections *
69- The sea *
70- The blind assassin
71- Never let me go ... ... the past few months have re-added it to my library, with the intention of having the pleasure to reread it. I thought that The Hours was an admirable adaptation/update of the book. And I thought that the movie did credit to both. You couldn't ask for three finer actresses or performances.
B ... ... the desire (or lack of) to recapture and remake the past in the story.
Two comments/questions - I am a huge admirer of The Hours, both novel and movie and I am wondering how much this affects my appreciation of Mrs. D. Anna Quindlen lamented that an entire literay generation would think ... Oh, I love Mrs. Dalloway. It's worth following up with The Hours by Michael Cunningham, which is an homage of sorts to the Woolf novel and its structure, set in modern times. Virginia is one of the characters in the interwoven stories; another is a housewife who discovers Woolf's novels; ... 14. The Hours
Lots of very confused people trying. ... far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.
From The Hours Finished with The Hours. I think I'll start The French Lieutenant's Woman. ... an effort to read the last third of the book in a more continuous flow I found it a more gratifying read. Last year I read The hours and had been hankering to read this especially after listening to Kate Camp talk about Mrs Dalloway on Kate's Klassics. I found reading the introduction ... ... be seen. Of course, as of 12/21/12 we're all so fried and dead it won't matter, but still....
>157 sanja, oh me oh my The Hours!! Such a wonderful trip to be taking for the first time! I look forward to hearing your opinions about this book. Have you seen the movie yet?
Mrs. Dalloway ... Ok, I've decided. :) I started The Hours. Mostly because I know nothing about the book and it has tulips, which are my favorite flowers, on the cover. Shallow, but it works. :) 42) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
After reading The Hours last year I was keen to read this. I struggled in places - my own fault as I was reading it alongside several other books and didn't give it my full attention. I feel I should read it again.
43) End of the Alphabet by Fleur Beale ... Thanks for the encouragement - I read The Hours last year and then saw the movie a few months later, one of the reasons I wanted to read Mrs Dalloway. I did struggle at times but mainly as I've been reading several books alongside it. Anyway I'm now finished and can give Inkdeath my full ... ... Ewan
7. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
8. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
9. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
1900's
10. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
11. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
12. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
13. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
14 ... #12: How bad is this? I knew The Hours was a movie, but had no idea it was a book. (sheepish smile) Hope you enjoy it, trinah.
#13: Yay for no more holds. :) I'm sure the bookstore's bummed though.
Me:
Revenge Gifts by Cindy Cruciger (currently reading and getting ... Today I bought The Hours by Michael Cunningham for $5 at Dymocks, in their bargain basement. Good find, as I wanted to read this sometime soon. I just started reading The Hours and it reminded me of how much I enjoyed Mrs Dalloway. In fact, I probably enjoy it more in my memory now than I did when I was actually reading it. :P
Clarissa's vitality is what makes it for me, I think. I love how much she obviously loves the world. It's ... ... wood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan
17) The Hours — Michael Cunningham
18) Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho
19) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
20) The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides
... I read The Hours first and that led me to its source Mrs Dalloway. I was captivated by Woolf's language. Nothing really happens in the novel but I felt like I knew all the characters, and being of a similar age to Clarissa I can relate to meeting old friends after years have gone by. I was ... I've read Mrs Dalloway twice, and I loved it too. Have you read The Hours? They play very nicely off each other.
... Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (and The Lost World)
A Man ... ... The Reader, 2007
86. Alias Grace, 2008
87. Fugitive Pieces, 2008
88. Silk, 2008
89. Enduring Love, 2007
90. The Hours, 2004
... Lessons by Anne Tyler
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2009: Olive ... ... city. Not too fluffy but not too dark that I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending these to young readers.
Book 92: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Eh. I've heard so much about this that I expected to either really like it or, more likely, despise it. Instead- eh. It was okay. I' ... ... I may be reading them willy-nilly.
My tentative list is:
i. Empire Falls
ii. The Interpreter of Maladies
iii. The Hours
iv. The Shipping News
v. American Pastoral
vi. Beloved
vii. The Killer Angels
viii. The Fixer
ix. The Grapes of Wrath
(ii, iii, and iv ... The Hours by Cunningham which is at the Abington Library
Novels by Male Authors
1. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (READ: 22 Mar 2009)
2. The Hours by Cunningham
3. Miss Lizzie by Walter Satterthwait (READ: 15 Mar 2009)
4. The Line of Beauty by Hollinghurst
5. Lonely Werewolf Girl by Millar
6. Balzac and the Lit ... ... Edmund White's marvelous "A Boy's Own Story," which is the first in a trilogy.
Before he became the renowned author of "The Hours," Michael Cunningham moved me with "A Home at the End of the World."
Although the original question was about fiction, if nonfiction interests people, two ... I didn't really like The Hours, I found it quite boring really. Also, I know many people love The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I didn't and I can't wrap my head around what it's doing on the list. Pulitzer Winners
i. The Hours Finished Jan. 11
ii. Interpreter of Maladies Finished Feb. 11
iii. The Shipping News Finished Mar 6
iv. Olive Kitteridge Finished Apr 25
v. The Fixer Finished May 12
vi. The Stone Diaries Finished June 23
vii The Grapes of Wrath Finished July 13
vi ... ... with Vanessa Redgrave who (irrationally) bothers me greatly. Thus the book was spoiled. I did, nevertheless, really enjoy The Hours. ... enjoy it very much. What did get me a lot more interested in Virginia Woolf was reading (and then watching the film of) The Hours. So perhaps that would be good preparation for embarking on Mrs Dalloway in particular. ... Kennedy Toole (no available touchstone for this one. How curious is that!)
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (touchstone?)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
in my TBR pile:
The Stone Diaries
The Shipping News
and high on my TBR list:
The Confessions ... ... probably in the first couple of months. Lisa - I put down Mrs Dalloway because I've been wanting to read it since I read The Hours and heard Mrs Dalloway discussed on a podcast Kate's Klassics earlier this year. Hi Karen - I'm looking forward to The Solitaire Mystery, I really enjoyed ... ... Neil Gaiman, they also make a rainbow on my bookshelf!
My Loveless manga collection with Yun Kouga's awesome art.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
I'm probably forgetting so many but those are always at the forefront of my mind!
Loving the responses so far :) ... Russo
6.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
7.Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
8.The Hours by Michael Cunningham
9.American Pastoral by Philip Roth
National Book Award Winners
1.The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2.Europe Central by William T ... I started The Hours earlier today as a break from dull academic reading. I couldn't put it down. Even if you have no familiarity at all with Woolf or Mrs. Dalloway, you owe it to yourself to pick this up as it is an incredibly moving and beautifully-written book.
Howards End and On Beaut ... Having completed both Orlando: A Biography and The Hours today, I feel I can finally make the long-awaited update to my original list. (See post #68.) It's official: Orlando is vanquished!
Next week is The Hours, followed the week after by Zadie Smith's On Beauty, which leads me to think that I'll need to find the time to finish Howards End before I can start that one. ... -- I'm finally on the last chapter of Orlando! I should finish it by the end of the evening.
Next week's reading is The Hours, which should be a quick read.
Maybe, at some point, I'll actually finish Howards End and Ada, or Ardor. That'd be nice! :) ... The Color Purple
1986 - Lonesome Dove
1988 - Beloved
1994 - The Shipping News
1996 - Independence Day
1999 - The Hours
2002 - Empire Falls
2003 - Middlesex
2004 - The Known World
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
... r
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
**Award Winners**
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003 Pulitzer)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999 Pulitzer)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1997 Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography)
Empire Falls by Richard Russon (2002 Pul ... ... coming back as themselves. Instead, the characters play around each other in slightly different roles each time.
If The Hours was a tribute to Virginia Woolf, Specimen Days pays hommage to Walt Whitman - the man himself has a walk-on part in part 1, and his poetry is the thread ... ... McCall Smith
104. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
105. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
106. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
107. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
108. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
I think I'd have to bring the complete Sandman collection by Neil Gaiman and The Hours by Michael Cunningham :) ... to make them interesting to me.
Ludmilla:
Wow, you are good to read Woolf.
One of my non-SFF RL book groups did The Hours which was supposed to be based on Mrs. Dalloway. I thought why not read both.
The VW book started OK, but it just seemed to be so slow and boring and never ... ... count either edition of the book.
1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
4. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
5. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ... ... 6 on my tbr list. My favorites were March, Middlesex, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, The Hours, The Killer Angels, and Angle of Repose. ... Chabon (Random House)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an Americ ... ... to her other work. I suppose if I have to pick one, it would be Mrs Dalloway, especially if you do a companion read with the Hours, which is also a 1001 book. I think the Voyage Out would be painfully boring for someone who didn't have a reason to love Woolf already, and The Waves is her ... ... something that informs the original, and in turn the original informs the new text (my fav example is Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours), and this book fills that order. Not the best book I ever read, and not really comparable to her big novels, but definitely time well spent. A minor gem. ... I hope some of you get the opportunity. Mrs. Dalloway is a re-read - I've been wanting to read Michael Cunningham's The Hours, so I thought I would read Dalloway first. I still found it a bit of a mess, but still thoroughly intrigued by mysterious Sally Seton (for me, Sally has always ... And I loved The Hours. ... until they reached Villa Incognito, where they found drunk natives half asleep in frog pajamas.
For one more day, the hours pass slowly as I lay dying on this cold mountain covered with silent snow.
... itter
All Souls Day
The Talk of the Town
Tipping the Velvet
The Poisonwood Bible
Glamorama
Another World
The Hours
Veronika Decides to Die
Mason & Dixon
The God of Small Things
Memoirs of a Geisha
Great Apes
Enduring Love
Underworld
... Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, To the Lighthouse
Michael Cunningham -- The Hours
Robin Lippincott -- Mr. Dalloway
Zadie Smith -- On Beauty
(Edited to fix touchstones that didn't work the first time.) No, but I definitively want to read it after reading The Hours. Yeah, I think that might help too. I must admit, I don't get why it's on the 1001 list. =) Have you read Mrs. Dalloway? Because I think that helps you to "get" The Hours Just finished reading The Hours, and started Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood. 51) The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Hmm, I don't know what to feel about this book. I liked it, but I didn't fully get and understand it. Perhaps this is one of those books that needs a reread? I doubt I'll ever do that though. The book tells the story of three women (one of them being Virg ... Is it The Hours? I finished Ines of my soul last night, and I really enjoyed it! Started reading The Hours this morning.
... ..
1. Virgin time: in search of the contemporary life / Patricia Hampl
2. The big four / Agatha Christie
3. The hours / Michael Cunningham
4. The club Dumas / Arturo Perez-Reverte
5. Gender chameleons: androgyny in rock 'n' roll / Steven Simels
6. A war of ... ... back from the library with
Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Inès of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Finished The Hours and started The Devil and Miss Prym Finished Angela's Ashes and started The Hours Another mailbox haul:
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon
I succumbed even though I promised I wouldn't any more as it was cheap and in the supermarket and Bones isn't back on the telly 'til the Autumn ...
Bones ... I'm a bad bazooka D:
My local Safeway is having another $1 book sale!
I got Angela's Ashes, The Hours and Girl With a Pearl Earring. I almost got The Memory Keeper's Daughter but I've heard too many bad reviews. ... Is three books in one and is very funny, ideal to now pass on to my nephew. Ordered on-line.
ETA - #78 bkhl - do read The Hours, it is very good. ... some reason.
Mrs Dalloway – Saw _The Hours_ and loved it, so I felt I should read this. (And should probably read The Hours too.) ... Woolf essay, as Lee discusses the Woolf legend and how she is represented and misrepresented in both the book and the movie The Hours. I'm a fan of Woolf and both versions of The Hours, so this was of particular interest to me.
Of course we can never really know what any of these ... #28 - The Hours -- I am glad I picked this back up! I ended up really getting engrossed in the story. I don't know if it starts slowly, or if I just wasn't in the mood for this type of story at the time, but I am certainly glad I finished it. ... ers
1. Middlesex
2. The Shipping News
3. A Confederacy of Dunces
4. Grapes of Wrath
5. Age of Innocence
6. The Hours
7. Beloved
8. American Pastoral ... charity shop/used bookstore yesterday and here is some of what I acquired:
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
nearly all the Merlin books by Mary Stewart
The Forest - Edward Rutherford
The ... ... these books!
Among my finds today -
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Gathering - Anne Enright
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
all the Mary Stewart Arthur books
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
The English Patie ... ... coming from a teenager's mind is just hilarious!!!
I am currently reading The Best Awful and I will probably pick up The Hours again.. I just needed some "funny" before getting into the heavy stuff again. ... Bronte.
Of the C authors, I really like Michael Cunningham, although I've only read one of his books (The Hours). #93 I loved The Hours - thought it was a very cleverly constructed book about the lives of the three women - I especially liked the way in which the author resolved the connection between them at the end of the book.
Hope to watch DVD sometime this week. Well, Juliette07, you didn't ask me, but I loved The Hours. I read it along with Mrs. Dalloway. I also really like the movie--it's one of my favourites, actually. Have you read it? ... I picked this one up because of a review I read during one of those massive Xmas book review/gift buying recommendations.
The Hours I had seen the movie and found this at at a Friends of the Library sale for 50 cents.
Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic I was an Early Reviewer
My Losing Sea ... Reading Ordinary Families - Its slow going - not one of my favourite reads - in fact read The Hours to relieve boredom when I was halfway along, 28. The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Loved it - but I think if you have not read Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf then appreciation of The Hours will not be fully realised. Now I can watch the DVD. Clam, The Woman is White is awesome.
I agree with wht you're saying. The Hours made me go back and reread Mrs. Dalloway.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Master Skylark: a story of Shakespere's time by John Bennett
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
From Time to Time by Jack Finney
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted W. Lawson ... one of the parents is nice, loving, etc. Not here. In that respect it was a bit depressing.
I am currently reading The Hours, Pebble In The Sky, and You Suck. I will post an update as I finish these. ... Michael Cunningham earlier and remembered this thread--I can't believe I didn't think of this back in March. Cunningham's The Hours and Specimen Days are structurally quite similar to Mitchell.
I liked The Hours better than Specimen Days. Specimen Days is pretty far inferior to Cloud At ... A signed paperback copy of The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
and
Eros Unbound
by Anais Nin
I love the penguin great loves series! Best: The Hours Pretty darn faithful.
Worst: The Serpent and the Rainbow This was a quite entertaining anthropological sort of book that they managed to turn into a crackpot horror movie. ... catch books that inform other books that don't show up in the special sauce.
For example, I added Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours. Obvious? Maybe. But I think it's important to know that reading the other book could assist in the enjoyment of this one.
My only complaint/question is why ... I just finished The Hours and honestly, I think I might have liked the movie a little bit more which almost never happens. Though I did like the ending.
Then I plowed through the first third of Marya Hornbacher's Madness. I loved her other memoir, Wasted, and I am really, well, ... My favourite from the H-list is the Hours. I love how it is informed by Mrs. Dalloway, and in turn informs Mrs. Dalloway. I also love the movie--it is so multi-layered. I've seen it many times and still find something new each time I watch it.
Obviously, I'll have to read Hitchhiker's Gui ... #24 The Hours by Michael Cunningham, 230 pages
Total Pages = 7251 ...
Despite this big-book dominance, there were still a few great books out in 1999. Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer for The Hours, Ha Jin the NBA for Waiting, and Jonathan Lethem's cross-genre masterpiece Motherless Brooklyn won the NBCC prize. Others that arrived in '99: Neal Stephenso ... ... the fantasy does cross my mind every once in a while. I think Michael Cunningham did a better job with this theme in The Hours than Tyler did here.
The Girl with the Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier. This is one of my all-time favourite books because I'm a huge Vermeer fan, and ... ... The Husband by Dean Doontz for a real life book club. I'm not sure what to start next, but I'm thinking about The Hours. ... vening
by Susan Minot
I loved this! It reminded me of how I felt when I was reading The Bell Jar or Wintering or The Hours for the first time. I couldn't wait to see how the story ended and yet didn't want the story to end. I will now have to rent the film with Claire Danes (love ... I've read The Hours. How about Howards End by E. M. Forster? It's one of my favorites! A_musing beat me to the punch last time, so i'll typr quick...
From For Whom the Bell Tolls to The Hours... ... story "A Cup of Tea". When done properly, I love it when current authors play with older literature (Michael Cunningham's The Hours comes to mind, but there are many others). Of course the other end of the spectrum are all the horrid Jane Austen and Gone with the Wind sequels. I think this one ... The Hours was great.
#53 Yes, you should run out and buy Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. It was a Pulitzer Prize winner long before it was an Oprah pick! HA
I have found this book loved by so many people from different backgrounds and reading styles. The Virgin Suicides was wonderful ... ... You may want to try My Dream of You which takes place in Ireland and is an epic, historical fiction.
I did not enjoy The Hours like the others here have.
Confessions of Max Tivoli, while not exactly a dual-time period theme, does involve themes of lives intersecting at different ... I third the post about Michael Cunningham's book The Hours. I was amazed at how he managed to pay tribute so well to Virginia Woolf's writing, for one, and then get into the heads of his female characters, particularly Laura Brown, the 50s housewife. I enjoyed his other novels as well, ... I have to say, The Hours by Michael Cunningham just blew me away. I couldn't believe how well Cunningham captured the subtle complexities of a woman's emotional conflicts. So insightful and beautifully written! ... wood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan
17) The Hours — Michael Cunningham
18) Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho
19) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
20) The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides
... ... explained perfectly. I'd like to add one more point. I find texts such as Wide Sargasso Sea, or for another example, The Hours (which points back to Mrs. Dalloway) both inform and are informed by the original text. By that I mean when I read them, they enrich my interest in the original ... ... not counting books read for school, comprehensive exams, etc. These are 50 books I WANT to read. :)
Read thus far:
1. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
2. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Vintner's Luck ... The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway are one fairly obvious pairing that hasn't been mentioned yet. I loved The Hours. i almost didn't read it because 2 people I know hated it.. Go figure. I second The hours - what a great read.
Oh, and Middlesex was a good one for two different storylines. ... earlier with some parallels to the protagonist's life as she researches a murder a hundred years earlier. Good book.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Several time periods going at once, one of my favorite reads.
Oh I keep thinking of these! I guess it's a genre I'm drawn to. The ... #29 - I just found The Hours very depressing. Life can be sad, yes, but there is always a lightness somewhere.
I just checked a map - my mother lived about 4 miles from where Woolf drowned herself (my parents were married there a few years later towards the end of WWII). If she were still ... >27 I love Mrs. Dalloway. You might appreciate The Hours a little more once you finish it--the book, not necessarily the movie. Cunningham very cleverly parallels the novel's unique structure but in an updated setting, with flashbacks and connections to Woolf's life.
Kidman's fake nose ... ... them get marked off one-by-one.
•Pulitzer Prize Winners
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
To Kill A Mockingbird ... ... Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul and I'm just about done with The Virgin Suicides.
I was interested by M#48, #50 about The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway. I read and enjoyed The Hours, though I've not seen the movie. And I have Mrs. Dalloway on my March TBR stack. I'm looking forward to it -- my ... 13. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (Finished Feb 20) 336 pgs
14. The Hours - Michael Cunningham (Finished Feb 25) 236 pgs ... About a year later I picked it up again to read for a course that I was planning to take. Around the same time I also read The Hours, by Michael Cunningham. I ended up not taking the course after all, but I enjoyed reading Mrs. Dalloway along with The Hours . . . they have this sort of ... Out of Africa was very different than the book, but excellent. They're not really comparable.
I loved the book the Hours, but I really, really loved the movie.
The Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice is wonderful, as is Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility. The movie Tristram ... ... Absolam!
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Price and Prejudice
White Teeth
the Ender Books (in order)
The Hours (especially in conjunction with Mrs. Dalloway)
A Christmas Memory (A short story)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Their Eyes were Watching God
The Sparrow
Mi ... ... by Marilyn French
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
... - Alan Paton
21. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
22. Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
23. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
24. Contact - Carl Sagan
25. Forever - Pete Hamill
26. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
27. The Other Woman - Jane G ... ... Horses by Per Petterson (4)
Honorable mention must go to:
In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez (3)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (4)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (3)
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama (4)
ETA the quarters in which ... ... that atmosphere or not. Sometimes they do, sometimes they create something different but also wonderful (Out of Africa, The Hours), and sometimes they improve on it (Room with a View).
Also, Kiera Knightly is one of my least-favourite actresses, so I'm apprehensive about the movie (alth ... ... 5 list as well.
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This makes me curious what book you're reading . . .
Virginia Woolf didn't write The Hours, she wrote Mrs. Dalloway, which had The Hours as her working title. Michael Cunningham wrote The Hours. They're very nice compliment reads, as they play ... The standout books I've read this year have been The Rings of Saturn, Lipstick Jihad and Trieste and the meaning of nowhere. Strange that they are all non-fiction, since I read a lot more fiction.
I'm also in the middle of The Hours by Virginia Woolf, which I think is going to be on ... ... give it a go. I still have a couple I'll be reading this month that may bump up.
Not in order; Subject to change:
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Klee Wyck by Emily Carr
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
and #5 is between Mr. P ... 40 The Hours Michael Cunningham
41 Once Upon A Time John Prater
42 The Cat who wanted to go Home Jill Tomlinson
43 Sailor Bear Martin Waddell
44The Door in The WallMarguerite de Angeli
45 Gilead Marilynne Robinson I finally finished The Hours last night and started Behind the Scenes at the Museum. 17. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
We read this one after Mrs. Dalloway for a class. I really liked it, but I would recommend reading Mrs. Dalloway before reading The Hours. It added a whole other layer that would have been missing if I'd read The Hours by itself. ... each other in some way? I'm thinking of books by different authors from different eras, like:
Mrs Dalloway and The Hours
Howard's End and On Beauty
Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
The Hours by Michael Cunningham for school and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger from the library 16. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
This book was assigned for my class on intertextual fiction (next up is The Hours). I have mixed feelings. The book itself bored me, but Woolf's writing of the inner life of the characters was interesting. I know it's supposed to be that kind of book. ... ... Unfortunately it's in French, but I'll attempt to muddle through anyway...
And from bookmooch: Mrs Dalloway and The Hours, which I'm looking forward to as a combination and A Bend in the River because I'm apparently on a V.S. Naipaul thing. And the TBR pile expands once again... Well, since this thread is addressed to me specifically... Still reading The Hours in snippets before bed. I finished the audiobook (unabridged) version of Return of the King yesterday on my way home from work and started Fannie Flagg's narration of A Redbird Christmas on my way in this ... I'm reading The Hours right now. I never saw the movie, but I did read Mrs. Dalloway a couple of years ago. I wish I hadn't waited so long to read The Hours, but I think I'm getting it. ... halfway through The Accidental, which promises to be my top book for October--barring disaster.
#21 teelgee, I loved The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway has always been my favoroite Woof novel.
#7 Adobe, there is a wonderful film version of Cold Comfort Farm. Rufus Sewall is an awesome Reu ... The Hours by Michael Cunningham, read shortly after Mrs. Dalloway. The two go hand in glove. Somehow, The Hours enrichened Mrs. D for me. It was a great stand-alone novel but even better in combination with Mrs. D. 65) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (review) Sophies Choice by William Styron
The hours by Michael Cunningham
Everything is Illuminated by Jonothan Safran Foer
Carrie by Stephen King
It by Stephen King
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Like water for chocolate by Laura Esquivel
#109 teelgee and #112 Joycepa - always wonderful to hear from you both. I have already started The Hours before reading your advice about reading Mrs. Dalloway first. I may have to study up on Woolf a little if I am not getting the connections. I did see The Hours movie when it released to DVD ... #109, teelgee: I agree. The hours can stand on its own, of course, but you're right on that you appreciate it so much more after Mrs. Dalloway which is a brilliant book in itself. I sometimes think Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf's most accessible book. ... read both of them quite recently and loved both, you can't go wrong. I do suggest reading Mrs. Dalloway before you read The Hours though. You'll appreciate the latter so much more for its brilliance. mrstreme: One vote for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan! (Though I must admit, I have not read The Hours.)
This week, I am reading The Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland. I'm almost halfway through, and so far, it is an interesting study of three strong-willed people who share a complicated ... ... I had a good reading weekend.
Now, I have to decide what to read next...perhaps Snow Flower and the Secret Fan or The Hours. Decisions! Decisions! #1: What books are you considering comparing?
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I surprised not to see Mrs Dalloway and The Hours compared here. I think they are great companion reads. One day I'll get around to writing about it here.
Currently I'm studying Dystopic fiction, so in the next month I will ... ... Fish by Antwone Fisher
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt (to replace a copy stolen by a student)
Brief Encounters with Che Gueva ... ... Bridges over Madison County because someone had loaned it to me quite some time ago and I need to return it. Then I read The Hours, which, since I haven't read Mrs. Dalloway I felt like maybe I just didn't get it.
Then I read Empire Falls another Pulizter and it was wonderful. Of all the ... Oscar and Lucinda
Little Children
The Hours
The House of Sand and Fog
The Piano ... History of Tractors in Ukrainian
14. Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring
15. Michael Cunningham - The Hours
16. Alexander McCall Smith - The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
17. Joshilyn Jackson - Gods in Alabama
18. Richard Mason - The Drowning People
... I agree with the comments about Mrs Dalloway and The Hours being good companion pieces.
#63 digifish: I think you have to alter your mindset for Mrs Dalloway and be prepared to read SLOWLY and even re-read passages. I did that and loved the book. 31. The Hours by Michael Cunningham. What a wonderful book; best read as companion to Mrs. Dalloway. I saw the movie when it first came out and since I hadn't read Mrs. D, I didn't get as much out of it as I could have. Now I'll have to see the movie again too! Cunningham is brilliant. ... Reading The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Lovely book. I read Mrs. Dalloway a couple of weeks ago, so it's all still fresh in my mind and the two fit so nicely together. The Hours
That worked. It indexes every night, so I can't imagine how it's changing. Very odd. ... and London (as with 84 Charing Cross Road) only this time with Los Angeles thrown in the mix in Michael Cunningham's The Hours. Fascinating to read this shortly after reading Mrs. Dalloway. ... I was reading it for an English course, and as such, had to really concentrate to get through it. After reading it, I read The Hours by Michael Cunningham, and flew through that book. Upon finishing I returned to Mrs Dalloway and found the experience both enhanced and more enjoyable. So ... ... that all my favourites are films made from books: Out of Africa, Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth version, natch), The Hours, Room With a View, Orlando, Dr. Zhivago, Sense and Sensibility, and even The Lord of the Rings (though I usually watch that one with my family).
I'm ... ... t?
I am working kind of backwards and forwards, depending on which books I can get hold of. I just finished the 1999 winner The Hours. I am just getting started on The Stone Diaries which I like so far - 1995 winner. I have completed 15 so far. Re #38.
Have you read The Hours? I haven't read any Woolfe, but I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read Mrs. Dalloway first. The Hours was a Pulitzer winner from 1999 I think. It was a strange book about three women, one of whom was Virginia Woolf, one is a character in her book, and one is a woman who is reading the book. I can only give it a meh. ... for the Virginia Woolf experience.
ETA: the farther I get from this book the more I like it - especially after reading The Hours. ... thread!!!!
I can think of so many favourite heroines: may I utterly cheat and list a few???
Clarissa Vaughan in The Hours… which leads me inevitably to Mrs. Dalloway
Hortense Roberts in Small Island
Pen O'Grady in Hood
Kambili Achike in Purple Hibiscus
the girls in The ... Michael Cunningham's The Hours, The Swimming Pool Library, the novels of David Leavitt, thr Pat Barker trilogy that includes Regeneration and Ghost Road, Proust for Remembrance of things past, the novels of Colette like the Claudine books for homosexual love, and Che ... #106 The Hours was one of those books I could not believe was written by a man - it so perfectly captured aspects of being a woman.
Then again, I thought the movie was amazingly well-done, and a wonderful look at depression, so there's that. ...
I thought the movie version of Frida was much better than the book by Hayden Herrera. I also had the same opinion of The Hours, by Michael Cunningham, but then I reread the book and decided I like both of them a lot. ... Coben! McEwan's style has changed quite a bit.
When you fininsh Mrs. Dalloway, try reading Michael Cunningham's The Hours. ... now. I rarely have more than one at a time but all my holds at the library came in at once! Here is what I'm reading:
The Hours: I read this a few years ago and loved it then just as much as I do now. Both times I read Mrs. Dalloway first. My book club will be discussing both books this ... I'm putting The Impressionist down for the week to read my book club books. We are reading Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours. I've read both of them before so it will be a pretty quick read. ... Orange by Anthony Burgess
Someone to Watch Over Me by Teresa Hill
Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult
The hours by Michael Cunningham
... Mary Doria Russell
63) The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
64) When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
65) The Hours by Michael Cunningham
66) The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
67) Empire Falls by Richard Russo
68) Rhett Butler's People by Daniel McCaig
69) On Chesil ... ...
Some others that don't fit into SciFi/Fantasy:
"She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather." ~ The Hours by Michael Cunningham
"This is what I write to her." ~ March by Geraldine March
Yes, I love this stuff.
... many years ago, as I was working on my dissertation on the letters of Virginia Woolf.
I just bought a copy of The hours, and I look forward to starting it. #4 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (January): I read this as a companion to The Hours, as the latter is a shout-out to the former. It is a slow read, a psychological novel that is purely character-driven and dense, but it was interesting to read right after The Hours, as there is much overlap ... #3 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (January): Our book/movie club did this one (with Mrs. Dalloway, below). I had read it before, but this is one that people often finish and immediately want to read over. I enjoyed it the second time, even more than the first, since I knew where it was ... ... ave.
(How perfect is that??)
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham was made into a quite a lovely film recently.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham - an award winning book, an award winning film.
These 3 don't even touch the zillion films and theatrical productions (Shakespeare ... ... nmore
The pleasure garden by Anne Scott-James and Osbert Lancaster
O these men, these men! by Angela Thirkell
The hours by Michael Cunningham
Tales of the city by Armistead Maupin
And since "The Bruised Apple" (wonderful used bookstore) is walking distance, and since I ... How about Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, followed by The Hours by Michael Cunningham?
Also, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor is a novel about the Johnstown flood, and would be complemented nicely by The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. ... sun gilded and brazed each raveling edge as if the firmament were threaded through with precious filaments."
Unlike The Hours which has far too many metaphors and similes for me, Brooks uses them sparingly and with great effect. #18 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
I just finished reading this and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I almost gave up about 1/4 through but decided to continue since it's such a short book. I found the paragraph long sentences of metaphors annoying at times yet there was a certain rhythm to ... ... dislike it, but so many other books I've picked up in the meantime have just been more interesting.
I haven't read The Hours since there only seemed to be novelisations of the movie available for some time. Come to think of it, I haven't seen the movie yet either. But, thanks for the ... I loved The Hours, and the film captures it really well I think - but then I knew Mrs Dalloway, and perhaps that helps, as others have said. ... read Mrs Dalloway beforehand because I enjoyed the allusions to it. As a book in itself I remember savouring the style of The Hours and loving it. I loved The Hours. I read it for a book club a few years ago. When I finished it, I immediately read Mrs. Dalloway, and then read The Hours again. It was greatly enriched by both the reading of Mrs. Dalloway and the rereading of itself. Have you read Mrs. Dalloway? I think that doing so would add much to your understanding and appreciation of The Hours. I liked Cunningham's book, but I'm not sure I would have liked it as much if I had not been familiar with Woolf's. Hmm, up next on my TBR calendar is The Hours by Michael Cunningham. I liked the movie and I'm hoping I'll like the book even better.
I just finished The Enchanted Land by Deveraux. I've always loved her romances and I'm starting over by reading them in order. It was alright but oh boy, did ... My next books are:
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
March by Geraldine Brooks
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Druids by Stuart Piggott
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Alaska by James Michener
Coming into the Cou ... ... a couple of entertainment novels, I can get back into them.
After those I'll probably tackle Flowers for Algernon or The Hours by Michael Cunningham. I also have The Druids by Stuart Piggott and By the Shores of Silver Lake waiting for me at the library. My book club read Mrs. Dalloway and then watched The Hours a while back. It actually worked out really well. A couple of members had to leave right after the book discussion, but the majority of us stayed around to watch the film. It was beneficial for discussion to have seen the film together. ... The Hours by Michael Cunnningham, and a few textbooks on archaeology and Iran. ... what I was reading during puberty. A lot of Star Trek fiction, I expect. :/
The life-changing book in question was The Hours...
Edit: well... maybe I'd have to give a shout out to The Little Prince. Which I suppose I did find during puberty! Eurydice -- ooooh, get The Waves some time, if not that copy -- it's my favorite book of all time and, like The Hours, I gave it away once only to regret it later! I'm keeping an eye out for that one, and you'd also have to fight my other friend on BM, Lani, who's angling for a copy. Think I'll ... ... up for grabs.
What have I mooched lately? Let's see...
On their way to me:
Herland -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Hours -- Michael Cunningham -- a favorite book I've read three times; loaned it out once and will probably never see that copy again. Excited to have it back in my ... ... by Edna St Vincent Millay
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
(I can't put this list in definitive order yet)
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