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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
I'd wanted to read this because it was set on Skye, which was probably the wrong reason as I came to this book expecting the wrong thing. I'm not even sure if it really is set on Skye as they only ever refer to the Hebridies, which cover several Scottish islands. And either way, there was no atmosphere of Scotland whatsoever - it could have been set on the south coast of England for all I knew or cared.
I don't think Virginia Woolf is a writer I'm going to get into in a big way. I can see it's a wordy, well-written piece of literature, but I didn't get into it that well, sometimes felt like it was trying to be too clever for its own good, and was, quite frankly, relieved when I got to the end.
Mr and Mr Ramsay and their 8 children, plus various random people are all staying at the summer house by the sea. I lost track of who was who as from word go you dot about from one person's head to the next (as is her style) so it's quite hard to find your bearings. So they hang about, analyse each other and have a marvellous time. All the men think they're intellectuals and look down their noses at the women. I liked Lily Briscoe the best - she had the most depth, wanted to do things for herself and didn't seem to think that marriage and motherhood was the be all and end all of life.
Then we skip ahead years and various characters have died, and the house isn't visited and is just forgotten about like the unwanted Christmas puppy. So it falls into ruin. And then some of them are there and they finally get in a boat and go to this sodding lighthouse. The end.
I don't think Virginia Woolf is a writer I'm going to get into in a big way. I can see it's a wordy, well-written piece of literature, but I didn't get into it that well, sometimes felt like it was trying to be too clever for its own good, and was, quite frankly, relieved when I got to the end.
Mr and Mr Ramsay and their 8 children, plus various random people are all staying at the summer house by the sea. I lost track of who was who as from word go you dot about from one person's head to the next (as is her style) so it's quite hard to find your bearings. So they hang about, analyse each other and have a marvellous time. All the men think they're intellectuals and look down their noses at the women. I liked Lily Briscoe the best - she had the most depth, wanted to do things for herself and didn't seem to think that marriage and motherhood was the be all and end all of life.
Then we skip ahead years and various characters have died, and the house isn't visited and is just forgotten about like the unwanted Christmas puppy. So it falls into ruin. And then some of them are there and they finally get in a boat and go to this sodding lighthouse. The end.