Finished: Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf). A lovely book that eavesdropped on the innermost thoughts of all the characters. I really enjoyed it! I was skeptical about reading another Virginia Woolf book after what was, to me, a complete nightmare of incoherent stream of conscious babble in To The Lighthouse. Mrs. Dalloway was stream of consciousness as well, but in such a different way. The reader is let in on every thought and every word uttered by the characters in the one given day that Mrs. Dalloway is giving a party. They may be saying something on the outside to someone, but you're reading both what they're saying AND what they're feeling! It's rambling, and detailed, and gut-wrenchingly honest! Characters intertwine either intimately or by chance, yet still have great affects on each other. Knowing the insecurities and longings and terrors and misgivings and hopes and delights of each one of them as they take you through their thoughts you can see so much of yourself in different ways. I mean...whose mind just sits there and doesn't constantly think things all them time? Anyway, it's hard to explain, but I did enjoy the book. I'm not sure yet if I'll include any snippets because I don't even know where I'd cut one thought off from another as the words in the book roll on and on. I did particularly love Mrs. Dalloway's old first love, Peter, coming back after 30 years and them still both having such feelings of mixed emotion. They took you back to their youth as if it was yesterday. Anyway, I can now see why Virginia Woolf is so highly regarded! :-)