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Jenny Jaybles

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36% complete! Jenny Jaybles has read 18 of 50 books.

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (2002, Harcourt)

Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife …

I really loved parts of it

If the entire book was just about Septimus, the young man with trauma from being in the war, and his wife and their story I would have thought this the greatest book ever. For some reason most of the book is about some snobby rich people and the two most interesting people are just a little side plot. Yes it's absolutely beautifully written and I cried about Septimus; but, I think this is going to be my least liked of Woolf's books. I have a feeling I might enjoy her other books better. I understand why people rave about it but I just could not bring myself to feel nothing but irritation and sometimes loathing for Mrs. Dalloway and the terrible people around her. If that was the point of the novel than it was well done but somehow I think I was supposed to feel bad for Mrs. Dalloway …

Justin Spring: Fairfield Porter (Hardcover, 2000, Yale University Press)

"Fairfield Porter, a twentieth-century painter who produced realist work in the midst of the Abstract …

Just okay

It's okay. Some parts are a bit dry but the thing I have the most problem with is the author's conclusions made about how Fairfield Porter treated the people around him. He seemed to be trying to paint him in a better light than he deserved and making poor excuses for his behavior. I severely question the author's insinuations about James Schuyler. The author seems to have no awareness about power dynamics and how a severely mentally ill person can be preyed upon which is what I think Porter did to Schuyler. Enough information is given for me to read between the lines and make my own thoughts though. I did like learning about the different poets and artists from this time period. I've become more fascinated by these other people and pretty much think Porter was a jerk and no longer want to read anything else about him.