Book Review: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

This was the one book from Structured Liberal Education (SLE) (a freshman year academic program) that I had never finished. So I was quite pleased to get through it before my time as an undergrad was over. The book is dense, and frankly, I’m not sure how much of it I could have followed without reading its Wiki summary. Yet I most enjoyed about the book was Woolf’s rich writing style. The descriptor words, the allusions, and the imagery all made for a great read and mental exercise in English writing. The novel is even more impressive given that its robust story relies on very little dialogue. Overall, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to get a better sense and more practice with Modernist writing. But it may not be the fastest-paced book you encounter.