The Lighthouse: The new claustrophobic psychological fiction thriller with a heart thudding twist you don’t want to miss in 2022

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I fell in love with the characters, I swooned over the connection between the MC (Amy) and Ryan. Their connection was sweet, passionate, tender, solid, at moments sad, fun and ‘real’.

I will say that the one silver lining about it that kept me interested in it is that one of the main characters is named Minta. I have a friend with the same name and always thought it was an unusual name that her parents made up. But, when I asked her, not only did her parents not make up the name, they didn’t get it from this book, either! So, just hearing her name frequently as the book went along kept me somewhat engaged. P.S: No idea why this one is categorized as an adult book. It is typical YA and has no cuss words or explicit romance. If an author can take a person, who’s been reading all thrillers because they match the mood of a person whose life destruction, devastation and most gut wrenching losses, could not be opened to ‘anything’ other than living in the dark and suffocating through the pain, and then make me feel all this wonderful……..That author deserves to be put in view of readers on a level of grandeur as the best of the best writers. I didn’t even want to read a book that was full of the magic and enchantment that’s in here, but I did and everything I’ve written here is exactly the intensity of emotions I feel. Amy recently lost her mother and she is reeling from the grief. Her father, a member of the state police, decides to take Amy with him on an assignment about a missing person to the quaint town if Seabrook. I think this book is Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, not The Waves as some critics say. What is it about? It’s about life. The first half is about two days of life; the second half, set ten years later, is largely about death. In the Intro by Eudora Welty she says that in the novel “reality looms” but “Love indeed pervades the whole novel.”Woolf, Virginia (1980). Bell, Anne Olivier; McNeillie, Andrew (eds.). The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1925–1930. London: Hogarth. ISBN 0-7012-0466-4. What I didn't like was the overly dramatic scenes, and the dialogue was sometimes over the top and actually sounded corny at times. The narrator was Braden Wright and straight men's voices were fine, but the women's voices were awkward, strange. Still, it was entertaining if unbelievable, but then do we really know what happens when we leave this world? Could there be other timelines, zones where the impossible becomes possible? Who can say? While they set sail for the lighthouse, Lily attempts to finally complete the painting she has held in her mind since the start of the novel. She reconsiders her memory of Mrs. and Mr. Ramsay, balancing the multitude of impressions from ten years ago in an effort to reach towards an objective truth about Mrs. Ramsay and life itself. Upon finishing the painting (just as the sailing party reaches the lighthouse) and seeing that it satisfies her, she realises that the execution of her vision is more important to her than the idea of leaving some sort of legacy in her work.

Ryan is a character whom, if he was pulled out of the story into the real world, would be a joy and a pleasure to have in one’s life. So genuine, good hearted, humble, respectful, responsible, compassionate……I could go on. Overall he has a profound purity in his soul. The care he showed throughout made me feel I wanted and needed to know him and be in his presence. Amy is struggling to deal with the death of her mother. Her father, a police detective, is clueless about finding a way to connect with his daughter. The distance between them is growing farther, and there’s no one to fill it. The town is alive with curiosity, bringing everyone out to see it. Amy meets Ryan, a local owner of a horse farm, and an immediate connection forms. It's about focusing on moving the tree to the middle of the painting. It's about creating one's own life regardless of whether it ends up not being important to anyone but oneself. It's about daring not to "be nice".What was the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come.” But more than any lofty philosophical or scientific conceits, this book is achingly beautiful. Never for a moment does the specifics of the scientific theory engulf the work. Instead it remains above the surface, leaving its impact upon you emotionally. The book is wrought with beautiful feeling and what could possibly make this better than the work of Joyce, for example is that it never leaves one with a cold intellectual shoulder or the folded-arm distance of an extravagant feat of technical writing skill. Woolf goes for the gut.

How then did it work out, all of this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking? And to those words, what meaning attached, after all?”To The Lighthouse was my first exposure to Virginia Woolf. I was working on a production of Edward Albee's Whose Afraid Of Virginia Woolf& I thought I should read something by Woolf. For no particular reason I chose To The Lighthouse. I remember enjoying it, being fascinated by it, but not really understanding what I'd read.