2012 Reading #2: Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

[snurri]

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.

2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I am overwhelmed by this book. It is smart, wry, fanciful, gorgeous, insightful, and whimsical--the scalpel of Woolf's intelligence that she wields so well in Three Guineas and A Room of One's Own turned playful without becoming frivolous. But that doesn't really do Orlando--the book or

Comments

[matociquala]

I just read your post out loud to what's-his-name, that's how much I agree with you on ORLANDO.

Gotta get around to watching the Tilda Swinton movie one of these days...

[snurri]

Yeah, I want to check that out too. I love Tilda, but I wonder if the film can capture even a fraction of the awesome . . .

[hecubot]

One of the many cool things about Orlando is that wasn't a "serious" book for Woolf. It was kind of a dashed off love letter/fantasy to Vita Sackville-West.