Title: Street Haunting

Author: Virginia Woolf

Kind of Book Essay

How strongly I recommend it 6/10 

My Impressions An impressionistic essay about Woolf's walk around London. There was some enjoyable word painting and a few nice insights. She is quite funny too.

Practical Takeaways

• Don't buy things in window shops, just fill imaginary dream houses with the items in your mind

• Use silly errands as an excuse to wander the streets and explore the world around you

Big Ideas

• We use silly errands as an excuses to wander around our city and explore or to have fun because we feel like you always must be productive and shouldn't just wander and have fun

• We don't need to actually buy the things in the window shops, we can just place them in imaginary dream houses in our minds

• People watching allows us to place ourselves in another person's shoes and be another person for a while