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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
Incredibly, this is the first I've read of Virginia Woolf. But often it's about timing: the right book in the right moment of your life. Would I have gotten so much out of this book when I was younger? Or before I was a mother, and had experience with the particular kind of heartbreak that involves your children? The reflection of your own life as the sum of so many details of motherhood, summer vacation, the mundane - so bittersweet? The slow fading of your prior life, your prior self, your prior everything? Perhaps yes. But now was the right time for me.
Woolf was a master of her craft. Every aspect of this book is gorgeous, rich, and though-provoking, from the storyline to the characters, even the structure. The middle section, "Time Passes", is itself a work of art. This book sets the bar high for whatever the readers chooses next - most everything else will pale by comparison. My copy has a lovey introduction by Eudora Welty which contributed greatly to what I took away from the novel.
This is a book I'll return to year after year.
Woolf was a master of her craft. Every aspect of this book is gorgeous, rich, and though-provoking, from the storyline to the characters, even the structure. The middle section, "Time Passes", is itself a work of art. This book sets the bar high for whatever the readers chooses next - most everything else will pale by comparison. My copy has a lovey introduction by Eudora Welty which contributed greatly to what I took away from the novel.
This is a book I'll return to year after year.