A review by explodinghead
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

3.0

Really, really didn't like this as much as MRS. DALLOWAY. And of course, because it's a classic novel by a genius author, my first instinct is: "I must be dumb." Beyond that, I think I had a slight preference against books that have the word "incivility" or "felicity" on the same page. Too Jane Austen-y in that regard, where so much of the novel is focuses on characters' stations in relation to one another. Nothing really happens in the book (and that's OK), so the drama comes from a character slightly raising their eye in consternation. How salacious. The cheek!

I was never assigned Woolf to read in college, and I really think I would have benefited by a more structured, guided reading of this.

I liked the prose, but more than that, I loved the way that ideas collided into one another. Woolf's train of thought, the way she connects ideas, is what I love. The leftover Victorian tone, maybe not so much.