To the Lighthouse

FINALLY!This was one of those reads that feel like being forced to eat something, you chew and chew and it grows in your mouth, a mass of something you need to swallow and you just can't... I kept reading and reading and there was always the same amount of pages left to be read. A nightmare.Nothing happens in this book. 300+ pages about nothing. I would give this book one star, had it not had its moments. Some of the things were said very beautifully. Some sentences made me feel and think about things. But I hate it. I don't want to read another Virginia Woolf in my life. I loved [b:Orlando 18839 Orlando Virginia Woolf https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1443118010l/18839.SY75.jpg 6057225] and [b:A Room of One's Own 18521 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327883012l/18521.SY75.jpg 1315615], but that isn't enough. Anyway, this book can be divided into three parts. The book opens with James Ramsay, a toddler or so, 4-5 (Don't know, don't care), wanting to go to the lighthouse, but his father says no because it will rain. The rest of the first part is basically his mother's thoughts about things, with inserts from others. Then we have an interlude about the house, some 10-15 years or something. (Don't care to find out.) War happens. People die. The house is empty, abandoned, and slowly deteriorating. Then we have the second part, the family comes back to the house. Mrs. Ramsay has died, and we get the POV of the other characters. Her place is empty, but somehow she's still there. And James gets to the lighthouse. I don't feel my life has been in any way enrichened by reading this book. I don't care about any of the characters. I was irritated by “her Chinese eyes”. (One of the characters has “Chinese eyes”, whatever that means. I can't help but think it's racist. I assume they are black, small, and slanted. I think Virginia said something like that. sigh (Again, can't be bothered to go back and check. I hate this book so much, I'm just relieved I've finished it. Now I know it wasn't worth reading.)