I kept putting it down and picking it back up again to the point where I reached a reading slump. I wasn’t in a good mindset when I started this book and for the first seven chapters, I found it dull and confusing. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. Maybe that’s what was so daunting about reading To The Lighthouse… If you read my review of Great Expectations, you will know that I am not a regular reader of classic literature. Woolf is known as a literary genius, as an author that has inspired people, an author that has written books with loads of meaning. There was something about reading this classic that was very daunting. To The Lighthouse was the second book that I read for my university course.
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