by Virginia Woolf
It explains the complex relationships between man and wife of the Ramsay family, more than a story in itself is a deep psychological study of both characters. It has to be read very slowly and carefully and think at the same time as the author messages seem to be deeply embedded in the text.It has v...
Oh Virginia! How is it that you make your words spring to life from the barren pages and hit my senses with the force of a gale every time? How is it that you peel off the layers of the banal and reveal the terrible beauty of the core? How is it that you steer my consciousness so deep into the murky...
This is a difficult book to read and to like unless you've reached that state of mind where you can digest words without even actively trying to understand the whole winding paragraphs. 'To the Lighthouse' is a story by several multiple POV characters that centered around the existence of the lighth...
I'm truly glad I put off reading any of Virginia Woolf's books until later in my life. I really don't think I could have appreciated this as much when I was younger. It's funny how I find Henry James and James Fenimore Cooper's descriptiveness tiresome but find it a stunning work of prose with Ms. W...
You're such a wizard with words, Mrs. Woolf. And so insightful!
I have a real problem with Virginia Woolf. I know I'm supposed to love her, in theory I do, but man I remember this being a real drag. I might should try it again...
Rating: 4.5* of fiveAs I've grown older, I've realized that Woolf is a pleasure best left for later in life, after the sheer novelty of experience has been burnished (or worn, depending on who you are and what's happened to you) into a soft, many-sided glow. Novels like Woolf's aren't the arduous, l...
-- Originally reviewed at Here There Be Books. --I'm taking a class on Virginia Woolf this semester, but I've been having the worst time with her books. We've read The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway. Or, well, we were supposed to. I've only read the first half of each of those books, eve...
I'm willing to acknowledge this is well-written (though I definitely didn't think so at the time I read it), but my two star rating still stands, because man do I just hate this book. (Worth noting I've liked everything else by Virginia Woolf that I've read, but I read them in graduate school when m...
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