A review by readingoverbreathing
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

3.0

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"

To be perfectly honest, I was not very impressed with Virginia Woolf's first novel.
Her characteristic writing is there, clever and intuitive, eeking truth from the slightest of human gestures. The writing, in fact, is what saved this book a star.
The actual story itself, unfortunately, is just so boring. The plot goes in the same circles again and again, Katharine and Rodney not getting along, Ralph's obsession with Katharine, Mary, the sad observer of it all. Even worse, the characters themselves were fitfully dull and wholly self-absorbed. I really did not care at all what happened to them, disliking rather than sympathizing with them.
Thankfully, this is not my first Woolf, and I know to expect better from her. I would certainly not recommend starting your Woolf journey with this one.