To the Lighthouse | 
pickThis was my first time reading Woolf's fiction. It's a famous one to start with. It was challenging, hard to maintain concentration because there is no plot drive, hard to make sense of. The prose is rhythmic, sometimes feels like a poem, and I read it best when I applied a rhythm to my reading. And, I've been thinking about it ever since I finished. She leaves a lot to think about.
pickThis was poetic and lovely but also made me feel like I can't read.
Once she even switched POV mid-sentence.
It's like Sylvia Plath and Charles Dickens had a baby prose-wise.
Timescale-wise, this is not technically possible. I checked.
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I'm not sure if this is a difficult book to read or if I'm just really poorly 🤦🏼♀️🤣
Reading my first Woolf novel.
Here‘s an early quote:
Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests…
“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.“
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I've been meaning to revisit Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set for a while now. Would anyone be interested in joining me for a monthly #buddyread from August?
As well as Woolf's books, I will be including biographies, non-fiction, retellings of her work, etc. There's certainly a lot to explore.
Let me know if you'd like to join me and I'll start a taglist.
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I've been meaning to revisit Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set for a while now. Would anyone be interested in joining me for a monthly #buddyread from August?
As well as Woolf's books, I will be including biographies, non-fiction, retellings of her work, etc. There's certainly a lot to explore.
Let me know if you'd like to join me and I'll start a taglist.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/monks-house/who-was-virginia-woolf
pan4-5 Mar 24 (audiobook)
Definitely not a fair review. Woolf‘s writing, and this book in particular, does not easily lend itself to audio. This mostly consists of stream of consciousness thoughts of various characters, focussing on their views of each other, during their stay at the Ramsays‘ summer house and planning of a trip to the lighthouse. Unlike Clarissa Dalloway, I found Mrs Ramsay unsympathetic and particularly disliked her husband.
No book cover so i juste draw a lighthouse in my journal. A re-read from Virginia Woolf
pickMy umpteenth re-read, this time via audio on BorrowBox. It's got to the point now that picking up this book is a whole "time passes" motif of its own in my life. ?
One of these days I might have sympathy for Mr Ramsay: today is not that day! (I am curious about his beautiful boots, though. ?)
I forgot to post my #bookspin list yesterday, but here it is!! I‘ll be reading “To The Lighthouse” and “ The Great Alone” this month!
panSo it seems I‘ll be one of the few (from what I‘ve seen on Litsy) detractors of this novel. I realize a lot of people love this, but I did not at all. I‘m not sure what I just read. For me, this omniscient stream of consciousness style is difficult to follow. Each moment requires thirty pages of memories and meandering thoughts and impressions from every participant‘s mind. I‘m not clear on what the story is even about other than a painting.
pickYou either like Virginia Woolf or you don't. To the Lighthouse, like the rest of her fiction that I read, is painstakingly slow and deceivingly short; you will have to work through those pages where the author lets you experience just a moment in someone's life. It's so descriptive of what the characters are seeing, feeling and reminiscing on that single mundane moment that you get to fully experience it with them. ⬇️
pickThere is a reason why classics become classics. This was the first time I read this particular title and I found how she described everyday life absorbing. She has a very distinctive voice. #classicreads #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
For anyone interested, A Public Space will be reading To the lighthouse next month!
pickReread of a favorite that did not disappoint. No one is better at describing a character‘s interior life than Woolf.
bailedI cannot "get over" the racism in order to enjoy reading this. So going to bail.
Wow. This lady was really racist huh? I am not sure if I knew that at some point and forgot? I have only read one other book of hers years and years ago I read Mrs Dalloway. But I don't know if I am going to finish this one.
Happy 2023! The new year brings a bunch of new books from 1927 into the public domain (and into #SerialReader) including To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf among other works by Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Arthur Conan Doyle and more!
Find the full list and more info over at Serial Reader's blog https://www.serialreader.org/blog/new-books-1927-public-domain-2023-lighthouse-h...
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2. Tagged book plus several others for mood reading
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"Did Nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began?"
#OnThisDay in 1927 Virginia Woolf published her follow up to Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse. Woolf began writing To the Lighthouse partly as a way of understanding and dealing with unresolved issues concerning both her parents. Published through her own house, Hogarth Press, and with a cover designed by her sister Vanessa Bell, the book outsold all her previous novels and the proceeds allowed the Woolfs to buy their first car. #HistoryGetsLIT
pickLately I've been reading so many classics, and I knew I wanted to read this book. The writing was as you might expect, though I could understand it and found it rather descriptive I found myself finding different quotes that resonated with me, particularly ones that described my favourite characters, Mr and Mrs Ramsay. The characters relationships were well developed and I really loved the philosophical side of the story.
The beginning is a classic family drama. The middle is a symphony in prose. The ending is a metaphysical triumph
pickTo the Lighthouse is the quietest novel I have ever read. I don‘t entirely know what that means but I know it to be true. It is a novel of observation. Characters rarely speak to each other and when they do we hear of it through the eyes of a third party. Oftentimes it is simply communication without words, words somehow feeling inadequate. It‘s a novel you‘ll want to flip open to a random page and savor each and every word.
I've never read Virginia Woolf, so I'm excited to finally do so! The seniors at my school are assigned this text which makes me feel a little behind the curve as they ask me questions that I can't answer. (I teach freshmen, but I get a lot of seniors in my study hall period.)
What other books by Virginia Woolf should I seek out?
Ending the year with two stories that I've been meaning to get to for a while now. 🤓
What's your last book of 2021?
pickMy first Virginia Woolf book! 🥳 This was...stunning. One of the best books I‘ve read this year. I was worried that it might be kinda hard to read or something, but I was happy to find that it was actually very readable. The writing was gorgeous, the characters were excellent, and its philosophical insights were very profound. Woolf really knew how to draw the transcendent from the mundane. One of my first exposures to Modernism, and it was great!
pickIn a quiet summer-home setting, Woolf paints a portrait of inner character and relationship dynamics through the language of thought. Sublime work! How can distinct, limited persons find unity, love, & buried purpose? Woolf shows the way in her greatest novel. The “Time Passes” section is daring and transcendent. The portrait of a struggling artist moves me with its truth. This is one of my very favorite books: kind, trenchant, artful, beautiful.
pick“Told from multiple viewpoints, To The Lighthouse gives unprecedented insight into the minds of the characters, as well as telling a broader story of personal and social change in the world after the World War I. To The Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written.”
Yes, the writing is exquisite but I had a hard time getting into the story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
so-soBeautifully written but too prosey for my liking.
#JulyJourneys #Lighthouse But of course!
Thank you so much @UwannaPublishme for my new favourite bookmark. Brings back very happy memories. 😍 #litsylove
pickI can't say how I got this far without having read this, but I have read it now. It's as excellent as everyone says it is, and nothing happens, as everyone also says. I'm still reading through her diary slowly in between other books. That's a slow read because I want it to be. I'm not looking forward to that one ending.
🎧 Well I must say I‘m really enjoying this as an audiobook 🎧
so-soA discapito del suo fine, il faro non fa che oscurare ancora di più i pensieri di tutti i personaggi che prendono le distanze uno dall‘altro inesorabilmente. I flussi di coscienza di ciascuno hanno un motivo musicale di fondo comune, ma ogni componente della famiglia sceglie l‘intensità che gli è più consona, affina il tono al proprio timbro, allunga o rallenta il tempo del brano a seconda della bassa o alta marea dei suoi pensieri. #virginiawoolf
I picked this up earlier this year but it just did not click with me at all. Now I am absolutely loving it and can‘t put it down! Might end up in my favorite 20 books of 2020... thanks to Jennifer @Jas16 for sending this to me gosh, 3 years ago?! ☺️
pickI just finished it again. I breathe for this existential, psychological immersion! Who else loves Virginia Woolf? Any suggestions beyond 'Mrs. Dalloway?'
