![]() ![]() Woolf did, however, write the book as a catharsis to an enormously painful past. ![]() We talked about how certain themes – immersion, sublimation, rapture, completion – strongly associated with Woolf’s own suicidal bent. Is there hope in there?” Others commented on the surreal ghastliness, on the gothic, on the unsettling detachment of the jarring second part. “It’s so bleak,” one book club participant observed. Childhoods die ways of living die affection dies innocence dies. ![]() There are dead people at the bottom of the ocean. I assumed the maritime theme would make for a great choice for our Guilty Readers book club as we approached summer. I admire Virginia Woolf – due, in part, I’m sure to our mutual infatuation with English peculiarity - but I rather guiltily hadn’t read To the Lighthouse. One occupational hazard when leading a book club is choosing a book that doesn’t turn out to be what you expected. ![]()
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