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1TheNun
Who are they for you?
I cannot for the life of me get into Dickens or Virginia Woolf. I've read four from Dickens, two from Woolf and currently reading a third and I just cannot get into them. To me, both authors just seem to lack something and I don't know what it is.
I cannot for the life of me get into Dickens or Virginia Woolf. I've read four from Dickens, two from Woolf and currently reading a third and I just cannot get into them. To me, both authors just seem to lack something and I don't know what it is.
2solestria
I've started To the Lighthouse at least three times now, and it's never grabbed me. I just started The Secret Life of Bees and, 50 pages in, it just feels so contrived that I don't think I can keep going--her other books also look like things I can't get into, so I'm not even going to try those.
3MyopicBookworm
Thomas Hardy.
5TheNun
Solestria - yep, that's what I'm reading now. I just read Mrs Dalloway and Jacob's Room and they just seem so fragmented to me, these characters just seem to pop up out of nowhere with absolutely no explanation. I struggle with the plots as well, are there plots? Oddly, they remind me of Ulysses by James Joyce but I understand what he was trying to do. I don't think I understand her point.
I wonder if it had something to do with her mental health, she was thought to be bipolar.
I wonder if it had something to do with her mental health, she was thought to be bipolar.
