A review by joannchilada
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

4.0

Focused on thoughts, feelings, perceptions, To the Lighthouse is not a book about plot. The novel unfolds over a ten year period, and we watch growth among our characters. But it’s not how growth is usually illustrated. These are small wins, internal successes. I was moved by how deaths were handled in this book, in that they were communicated in an extremely realistic way. The way you really learn about a tragic death - in the middle of something else entirely, very abrupt and unexpected.

This is the first book of Virginia Woolf’s that I read, and it took me a bit of time to adjust to her style. Long sentences that often run in to the next, poetic and flowery language where the actual action happening in a scene can get a little lost. Once I adjusted I really enjoyed her style.