Much like Mrs. Dalloway, I don't really know what to make of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. The book is written in a stream of consciousness that flows between the emotions and actions of various characters as they go about their day. There is some lovely writing here but I couldn't really get that into it... mostly because I can't really figure out what it is about. Plot-wise very little goes on, a kid bugs his parents about wanting to visit a lighthouse, his dad is kind of mean about it and they have some guests over and have dinner, then years later they actually make a trip out to the lighthouse and nothing else really happens except someone paints a picture. Maybe I need to do some in-depth studying of it to figure it out but it just doesn't appeal to me enough to make that effort. I'll say it is a B-.Oh yeah, the book also mentions Middlemarch and Anna Karenina.
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