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Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed listening to this story. Each character was read by a different person, giving them personality and voice. The format of a story being told through diary entries, letters, postcards and telegrams was, I think, meant to bring that "inside" thought of a person to the surface, to give depth and insight, perhaps, and to bring out the real person.
The story of this group, told mainly through Vanessa's eyes is fascinating. So much was happening in those days ...more
The story of this group, told mainly through Vanessa's eyes is fascinating. So much was happening in those days ...more
Firstly, I stopped reading on page 76. This is the third book I have read this year that has disturbed me by the author taking a proprietary fiction from real-life characters. "Shirley," actually used a lot of fictional quotations from Shirley Jackson and even her children who are alive today. It made me very squamish. Just whose life is it anyhow?
"The Master's Muse" was a novelization of the marriage of George Balanchine and Taniquil LeClerq. Why not write a biography? These books strike me as ...more
"The Master's Muse" was a novelization of the marriage of George Balanchine and Taniquil LeClerq. Why not write a biography? These books strike me as ...more
I am in the midst of an interesting convergence of books, some planned and some by chance. I have just finished Vanessa and Her Sister, a wonderful historical fiction focused on Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf and The Bloomsbury Group of artists and writers of which they were a part. The book is told through letters and Vanessa’s imagined diary which I found effective, well-researched and well- executed by Parmar. I am listening to Woolf’s first book,The Voyage Out, which figures into th
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Jan 06, 2015
Erika
marked it as to-read
Jan 09, 2015
Alice Cuprill
marked it as to-read
