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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Difficult for me to get into. The book was, to me, more about the writing and language than it was about the characters or the story. I almost wanted to quit on it, but I'm one of those people that can't put down a book once I've picked it up. I wish I could get past that. I've been reading a lot of modern fiction, so perhaps I just wasn't ready for it. I'll give it another listen before returning it to the library.
This was my second Woolf book that I read, and it is a very beautiful book. I picked it up after having read Mrs Dalloway and being blown away by that novel. This book continues Woolf's exploration of the stream of consciousness style that she had been working on before, and expanding it in more artistic ways. Generally, that means that this book doesn't have a plot so much as it has character. Looking at our day to day lives, we are rarely beset by an adventure, and often are stuck having conversations in our heads. Sometimes an interesting person comes along, but the only constant is the voice in your head.
Unlike Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse deals with the passage of time. This book takes place over a decade in the lives of the characters. Woolf manages this remarkably well, and I really felt that she conveyed a sense of time passing that were missing in earlier work (especially The Voyage Out, because I have no clear idea how long that book took). I truly think that Woolf is one of the greatest writers in the world, and this book continues that idea.
Unlike Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse deals with the passage of time. This book takes place over a decade in the lives of the characters. Woolf manages this remarkably well, and I really felt that she conveyed a sense of time passing that were missing in earlier work (especially The Voyage Out, because I have no clear idea how long that book took). I truly think that Woolf is one of the greatest writers in the world, and this book continues that idea.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The Ramsay's house is filled with the MC- a beautiful woman with & children and her husband, with guests on board on the Isle of Skye Scotland. The first part of the book is mere 2 days in Ramsay's cottage and the other part deals with death and conclusion.
I personally loved the whole vibe of this book. At tirst, I was misled and confused so I restarted and don't regret the decision. What I loved the most is the accuracy of descriptions, each scene was so well described using metaphors that one can not fait to pinpoint what emotion is being described. I loved this book but I refrained from giving it 5 stars because sometimes it felt as if the characters were blurred, they felt vague, and couldn't keep up with who was speaking.
I would recommend this book to anyone who love poems/ prose (because this one feels like a long prose).
“Oh, the dead! She murmured, one pitied them, one brushed them aside, one had even a little contempt for them. They are at our mercy."
"She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness."
I personally loved the whole vibe of this book. At tirst, I was misled and confused so I restarted and don't regret the decision. What I loved the most is the accuracy of descriptions, each scene was so well described using metaphors that one can not fait to pinpoint what emotion is being described. I loved this book but I refrained from giving it 5 stars because sometimes it felt as if the characters were blurred, they felt vague, and couldn't keep up with who was speaking.
I would recommend this book to anyone who love poems/ prose (because this one feels like a long prose).
“Oh, the dead! She murmured, one pitied them, one brushed them aside, one had even a little contempt for them. They are at our mercy."
"She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness."
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
this is crazy. it made me feel crazy. this book is about lily briscoe i guess and trying to capture the story and it starts out in the agonizing present that refuses to end and with trapped in the minds of the characters and it ends when they get to the lighthouse but time speeds by and warps in the middle but then suddenly you find yourself older and greyer and painting the same picture but things are different and you’re grieving but you can finish the picture now you finally understand it all
Who can resist rating a Virginia Woolf book 5/5 stars? certainly not I.... fantastic book. more insight than most authors I've ever read, most people i've ever met. fantastic read.
“This is life. That is life.”
“...the usual chatter. One need not speak at all. One glided, one shook one’s sails between things, beyond things. Empty it was not, but full to the brim.”
“...the usual chatter. One need not speak at all. One glided, one shook one’s sails between things, beyond things. Empty it was not, but full to the brim.”