To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Paperback, read June 2019

Well, I have a new favourite book! After many long years in the number 1 spot, Catch-22 has been ousted by To the Lighthouse. I absolutely can’t wait to read more of Virginia Woolf’s books!! I don’t usually mark up books, but this is a used copy that already had some pencil highlights (which I loved, it made me feel so close to the stranger before me) so I just went for it – and could NOT stop flagging and highlighting passages. It is the perfect book, about sadness and love and humanity and grief and all of life, with no tricks, cheap or otherwise, it is an incomprehensibly perfect book that I spent a great deal of time with through some tumultuous weeks and which I immediately want to read again upon finishing. It is a perfect book that I gave up on, in university, and aren’t books funny that way, the way sometimes they land and sometimes they don’t? In any case, it’s landed now, and I am in awe.