A review by aspiegs
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

"There is a sound like the knocking of railway trucks in a siding. That is the happy concatenation of one event following another in our lives. Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up - sober, merciful word which we pretend to revile, which we press tight to our hearts, without which  we should be undone." 

This is now my third time returning to this book in ten years. There is something so special about the look at how we are who we are through those closest to us. 

I also think it's such a deep and specific look at differing personalities, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Rhoda (me) and Jinny (not me)