@LizAndra Hello! I am curious about what you liked and disliked about Mrs. Dalloway. Altough it has been a while for me (I read it almost ten years ago, and it was for a mandatory academic course), I think that book is the root of some of my personal belief on the nature of reality and feminism. From this comes some affection for this book. Plus I never saw anyone criticize it, so I would enjoy your viewpoint on this :)

@aura It's just personal preference on the style of writing. I read for enjoyment, and I like an actual story in what I read. This is much more stream of consciousness with a lot of head-hopping and no resolution. I think there is a lot of meat in the story. Still, f I hadn't been reading it for a book club, I would have stopped without finishing because I didn't enjoy the process of reading it. I enjoyed our discussions of the book, particularly the discussion of the symbolism, but I didn't enjoy the book. I hope that makes sense.

@LizAndra It does, thank you for taking the time to answer. We studied this book among two others on the topic of "experienced time", as in how one second can last an eternity. This book revealed to me that people had their own inner temporalities, and that it was separated from the time of the clockworker. I still remember the sentence, "The leaden circles dissolved in the air"; very striking.

@aura That's fascinating. We didn't focus on the "experienced time" angle, but we did focus on how differently people experience what we call "reality." I still remember hearing a psychologist on TV way back in the 90s say there is no such thing as reality in a concrete sense. We all live within our own realities. It blew my mind. And now we are seeing this so vividly in our political sphere.