Steadily making my way through Virginia Woolf’s books. This is the most normally written I’ve read of her novels so far*, but by far the hardest I’ve found to read; I think perhaps because I couldn’t gauge what it was meant to be† - as per usual I left reading the notes and accompanying introduction‡ until afterwards to experience the book as is. I think that was a mistake. If read at the time of publication you’d more likely have had some knowledge of Virginia Woolf’s life and social circles and therefore understood and enjoyed the novel a lot more - It made a lot more sense to me after reading the introduction and learning about her friendship with Vita Sackville-West.

I’m now on an interlude of a couple of more modern, none Virginia Woolf, novels, but then I want to read To The Lighthouse. A lot.

* - A Room of One’s Own doesn’t count since not a novel. This is similar ly written since a faux biography.

† - I couldn’t gauge whether comedy, fantasy or serious; Actually a bit of all of them.

‡ - The swanky edition I have is almost half notes and companion text and it’s better for it.