Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Review: To The Lighthouse

My reactions to my very first Virginia Woolf

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Apr 04, 2022
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OK, so I'm an uncouth, illiterate, uneducated heathen, but I have just finished reading my first Virginia Woolf novel, and I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to never reading another one.

Although there are some fine turns of phrase, and some nicely balanced sentences, for the most part it is, in my opinion, unreadable. Last week I found tha…

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