There is a copy of "Woolf's Essays" and a "Selected Diaries of Woolf" on the bookshelf. The date of purchase is recorded on the title page, May 3, 2010. There are some underlined notes on the first few pages, which are my only interactions with them.

My understanding of Woolf is limited to some golden quotes, such as

and

and the female-themed movie "The Hours". ("The Hours" is a film that pays tribute to Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway")

As the most outstanding female writer in Europe in the twentieth century and the main representative of stream-of-consciousness novels, Woolf's Essays are considered her "best read" genre, but for me, I have to slow down and respectfully immerse myself in her words in order to follow the pace of her thinking.

Like her consistent assertion of independence, in "How We Should Read", Woolf stated clearly from the beginning,

Just when I was specious about this statement, Woolf used a twist to guide my confusion, she said

But don't worry, she will not tell you how to train control right away, nor will she tell you the reading secrets she has mastered easily. For someone as profound and interesting as Woolf, you either read and absorb it over and over again, or you read nothing at all.

Woolf started her persuasion with a question - how to get the deepest and widest pleasure from reading? Are you reading with the expectation that books should give us the right things? No, in her opinion, the first important thing about reading is to put aside preconceptions, don’t be afraid or picky, but let yourself immerse yourself in it. Become familiar with the author. In immersion, use your perception and imagination to the best of your ability. Only in this way can you truly feel what the author is trying to give you.

Then, for different genres, Woolf gave different ways of entry. Her introductions are always unique and full of sensibility. For example,

This is how biographies and memoirs often satisfy us - by lighting up someone else's house.

One of the values ??of novels is that when we live our current lives, "from time to time we go through this garbage pile and find out the rings, scissors, broken noses, etc. buried in the long past." Waiting and trying to put them together is so fascinating. "Looking at the novel from such a perspective, I really admired how interesting it was.

Then she said,

She said, poetry is

This kind of comparison made me suddenly enlightened.

What a wonderful logic this is - when we are almost able to write poetry, it is time to read poetry. Yes, we do not read poetry for the sake of reading poetry, but our inner desires and emotions guide us to encounter poetry.