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A review by zarahzoe
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
4.0
A family and their friends are on vacation. The youngest child wants to visit the lighthouse. Due to the weather, they don't go. A woman wants to paint a scene but is not satisfied with her picture. Several years pass. Several people die. They go back to the vacation house. The youngest son, his sister and father finally visit the lighthouse. The woman finishes her painting. That's the whole plot. BUT!
Reading this is like reading a 200 page poem. Woolfe wields language so intricately and beautifully that I didn't even mind how little plot there was in it.
Something I really love is to get to know characters through the eyes of others, and since the first 120 pages is just people thinking about other people, it was right up my street. And a whole section of the book from the POV of a house? Wild.
Still, even though I loved it, it took me weeks to get through this tiny thing of a novel. Steam-of-consciousness is hard to read, the sentences sometimes span half a page, everything sounds so poretty that I forgot to concentrate on what was said at times. Sometimes I had to stop and reread several pages to get back to a point where I knew what was happening.
This is not a book to rush through. It's made to be enjoyed and savoured, probably.
Reading this is like reading a 200 page poem. Woolfe wields language so intricately and beautifully that I didn't even mind how little plot there was in it.
Something I really love is to get to know characters through the eyes of others, and since the first 120 pages is just people thinking about other people, it was right up my street. And a whole section of the book from the POV of a house? Wild.
Still, even though I loved it, it took me weeks to get through this tiny thing of a novel. Steam-of-consciousness is hard to read, the sentences sometimes span half a page, everything sounds so poretty that I forgot to concentrate on what was said at times. Sometimes I had to stop and reread several pages to get back to a point where I knew what was happening.
This is not a book to rush through. It's made to be enjoyed and savoured, probably.