Book Review - To the Lighthouse by, Virginia Woolf 

You are so cute 🤣 Love the intro! You have allll of my respect for being able to handle Virginia Woolf's writing! Her stream of consciousness can give readers a whole new level of understanding a chatacter, which is so unique and cool. I really honest just struggle with it 😅 I have focus issues. But I really enjoyed learning more about her life and it's fun to hear your talk about her since you enjoy her so much!! Thanks Alana!!

Love the review, Alana. Truthfully, I just love to hear you talk about books because you're so full of happy. But, as an old white guy, "Black don't crack" made my day. I guess I'm a VW fan, though I find her "ability" to string half a dozen phrases together with commas, often with the subject separated by the verb and object by all those phrases, to be taxing on my old brain.

What a nice edition you’ve got there. Interesting! Didn’t know about the reoccurrence of 3. Or that she took her own life. I rarely look into the author, for whatever reason. Oh I love Virginia Woolf lol I read Orlando just a a month ago and liked it far more than I expected to. Knew nothing about it going in, which helped, I think. My favourite is The Waves. Second would be this one: To the Lighthouse.

I really have to get round to reading this novel. I have stayed away from Virginia Woolf all my life for some reason, avoided reading her. But I feel like I really should read her

This is the first Virginia Woolf I ever read and I was pleasantly surprised. Loved your discussion! I'm definitely picking up more of Woolf's work.

*Such* an observant & nuanced review Alana 🤗. TTLH is my 3rd Woolf, & although there is much to admire (gorgeous passages for days) I didn’t love it as much as MDalloway or Orlando (MD the more similar stylistically thematically etc), just seemed somehow ‘tighter’.. seamless & more ‘to the point’.. there was nothing superfluous or overdone to me, like it was crafted imho & edited to perfection. I do love the way VW ends & starts chapters / parts.. and her finales are exquisite..💕There was much that reminded me of HJames' style (not 's.o. consciousness' however- but the same 'cracking open' of peoples psychology & the resulting 'fall out' ) particularly POALady & TGBowl. Would like to recommend 'The Parisian' (I.Hammad) so many Jamesian & Woolf 'moments' in a contemporary HFiction💖 😊

YASSS SO GLAD YOU LOVED THIS TOOOO 😍🥰

Fantastic review! You're making me want to give Woolf's fiction a second chance. For her novels, I've only read Mrs. Dalloway, and I just had such a hard time with the stream of consciousness. I'm too much of a Victorian to handle that haha. But I do have Orlando, and I would like to give it a try. And also Flush since it's about a dog. 😆

Alana! The opening cracked me up! 😂♥️ I haven’t been able to finish this one! I have a lovely old copy, may have to give her another try. I have her letters? Or diaries?

"The Years" isn't challenging, no fear! It was actually her best-selling novel, during her lifetime. This year was my first time getting back to re-reading Virginia Woolf's major works after falling in love years ago, and now returning, as a different person. And, it's been really interesting...because a lot suddenly does not resonate. It's been a struggle, honestly. But! I actually began with "The Years." And, I was pleasantly surprised: it brought that old love back. No one would call it her best work. There's a tension she's negotiating between being "too political" while also telling a sweeping generational family saga in "her style"...and sometimes those things don't mix. But the tension is interesting to me. And, I *do* think it contains some of her best prose.

8 chilns… that’s too much 🤣🤣 I haven’t really read Woolf other than A Room of Ones Own, which we read for uni but I don’t really remember it. I find her intriguing though, and definitely do want to read her novels.

Thank you for your review. I love what you said about the abstract nature of the personality and how difficult it is to truely know someone. Woolf captures that so well when Mrs and Mr Ramsay are both sitting reading in the sitting room and he looks across at his wife and thinks 'poor woman she is so stupid that she probably doesn't even understand what she is reading.' Then we switch to Mrs Ramsay and she is thinking about the meaning of life. I've read Orlando and the waves and this is my favourite. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

this is the first video i watch by you and i really enjoyed your reviewing style. i usually i can't connect quotes to what's being explained but you connected things so well, it was easy to understand you. it was fascinating to me to see what theme each person picks up from this book! i particularly focused on the sexuality and the need to fit in themes. lily's pov was the easiest to understand for me as well so i had a grand time with that topic. i also enjoyed nancy and minta's relationship. it was spoke about so subtly and it fit them both so well cause from what i understood, the emotions there were subtle to them too. definitely a book to carry with u for a long time. thank you for your review again, it made my enjoyment extra enjoyable

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