The Virginia Woolf Collection

Only listened to the first one as I’ve got so many others I’d like to listen to, but it’s lovely! A really gentle, perceptive story. KST reads it beautifully!

Kristin Scott Thomas, Mrs. Dalloway was worth the Credit alone, this is probably the definitive performance of Virginia Woolf's work, utterly sublime.

Not an easy listen, took me several months to finish (I needed to take mental health breaks between each book), but it was worth it. Carried out in extremely high quality, beautiful performances. Worthy to the works of Woolf.

Very gloomy listening for car journeys. Engagingly read and atmospheric but more cheerful listening needed.

What a beautifully curated performance! I loved this journey through some of Wolfe’s most famous works some of which I’d read before, others which I experienced for the first time. It took me several weeks to listen and savour this wonderfully evocative writing which recreates past times and meditates on the passing of time.

Mrs Dalloway was a good story but nothing special, though the performance of Scott Thomas was lovely. To The Lighthouse is one of the finest novels I have ever read/listened to and the performance of Jessie Buckley is a sensation. A Room of One's Own is a fantastic essay and Swinton's performance does more than enough justice to the work. Finally, on The Waves, I found the novel near impossible to follow, though the performances remain top notch.

Absolutely loved chapter 17, going round the table into everyone's thoughts as they shift through the meal. It's a perfect standalone piece of pure mastery.

A masterpiece of literature that is truly made to sound like the sea, yet like real people too - by Woolf and the actors alike.

I didn’t get Mrs Dalloway at all. There’s no plot to speak of, and I never felt like I cared about any of the characters.
To the Lighthouse was also tricky to get into but I enjoyed it once I got the hang of it.

I can't say whether these stories are good or bad because I'm not entirely sure I fully understood what I was listening to. I'd wanted to attempt Virginia Wolfe for a while and I can safely say 30 hours at this present time was more than enough for me. As the title suggests, the narrators did an excellent job, it's just that the stories just lost me at times.