Brain Pain discussion

Pilgrimage: Pointed Roofs was originally published in 1915 and is the first volume of Richardson’s 13-volume series “Pilgrimage”.

The following passage comes from the Wikipedia page for Richardson:

“In a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918), May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in her discussion of Richardson's stylistic innovations. Richardson, however, preferred the term interior monologue. Pointed Roofs was the first volume in a sequence of 13 novels titled Pilgrimage. Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on author's own life between 1891 and 1915.

Richardson is also an important feminist writer, because of the way her work assumes the validity and importance of female experiences as a subject for literature. Her wariness of the conventions of language, her bending of the normal rules of punctuation, sentence length, and so on, are used to create a feminine prose, which Richardson saw as necessary for the expression of female experience. Virginia Woolf in 1923 noted, that Richardson ‘has invented, or, if she has not invented, developed and applied to her own uses, a sentence which we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender.’ "

During our Week Three discussion of Pointed Roofs, I would like to do a compare and contrast discussion of Richardson and Woolf, especially the idea of “feminine prose” as mentioned in the above excerpt.

Dorothy M. Richardson’s Wikipedia page can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_...


Feel free to use this thread to ask questions and post links to resources for Dorothy M. Richardson and Pointed Roofs.

Also, if you’ve written a review of the book, please post a link to share with the group.

Jim, I'm quite sure you posted a link to download Pointed Roofs to our e-readers, but now I can't find it. Or am I crazy? Did you not post that link??

Barbara wrote: "Jim, I'm quite sure you posted a link to download Pointed Roofs to our e-readers, but now I can't find it. Or am I crazy? Did you not post that link??"

OOOPS!! Sorry about the above post. I found the link on the "Schedule for Discussions" page. If it had been a snake it would have bit me in the behind!!!

BUT -- I tried downloading it to my Nook, and for some reason it's not working. I tried the EPUB edition, but I received a message saying that I can't download it.
I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I'm bummed because I wanted to start reading it tonight.

Barbara wrote: "Barbara wrote: "Jim, I'm quite sure you posted a link to download Pointed Roofs to our e-readers, but now I can't find it. Or am I crazy? Did you not post that link??"

OOOPS!! Sorry about the abov..."

Here's a link from Internet Archive. Maybe this epub version will work.

http://archive.org/details/pointedroo...

For the other version I linked to, I just downloaded the pdf version and read it on my laptop because I don't have an ereader.

Jim wrote: "Barbara wrote: "Barbara wrote: "Jim, I'm quite sure you posted a link to download Pointed Roofs to our e-readers, but now I can't find it. Or am I crazy? Did you not post that link??"

OOOPS!! Sorr..."

Jim, thank you for posting this new link. I tried to download it to my Nook last night, but this one isn't working either. I don't know -- I've been having some problems with my Nook, so it could be due to that. OR, it could be simply due to the fact that I rarely transfer downloads to my Nook, so I may be doing something wrong.

I may just go and pick up a copy of the printed edition, because this seems to be an interesting novel.

Barbara, I had a lot of trouble getting it on my Kindle, too. I will tell you how I finally got it to work, and you can see if something similar will work with a nook. First, I downloaded Pointed Roofs to my computer. Then, I plugged my Kindle into my computer with the USB cable. On the screen, I was able to open the documents folder on the Kindle. On another part of the screen, I had the download menu that included Pointed Roofs. I clicked on the Pointed Roofs file, and dragged the icon over to the Kindle documents folder, and dropped it there.

Casceil wrote: "Barbara, I had a lot of trouble getting it on my Kindle, too. I will tell you how I finally got it to work, and you can see if something similar will work with a nook. First, I downloaded Pointed..."

Hi Casceil, Thank you SO much for explaining how you were able to get Pointed Roofs onto your Kindle. I tried the same thing you did, with my Nook, and it seemed as though it was downloading onto my computer, but I was not able to find the download.... anywhere.

BUT, I do have a million (or almost a million) documents, so maybe I need to search in a few other spots for it.

Usually once I plug the Nook USB cable into my computer, anything that I download automatically goes into my "Nook" folder in my documents, but this didn't show up there.

I'll give it one more try. Thanks for the help!! I hope you're enjoying the book!! (I haven't viewed the discussions on this book yet.)

Barbara, check and see if your computer has a folder called "downloads."

I got my copy from Kindle-it's free, although more typos than are remotely acceptable.

Interesting. Kindle told me it was unavailable, although it clearly had been available at some point. The copy I downloaded from the link listed above is also full of typos.

I got my copy about 2 or 3 weeks ago (not a long time!). The occasionally odd typeface is also annoying but I am loving the book. After what we've been reading, it's a positive cake walk.

Dorothy Richardson website:


http://www.dorothyrichardson.org/inde...

Link to my review here:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...