Virginia Woolf's The Years is very cinematic. It reads like a film. There are establishing shot-like passages at the beginning of every chapter. The effect is quite stunning, just an omniscient observation of a world in detail and beautifully rendered, then close ups into characters. She has a great knack for entering into the thoughts of one character to another seamlessly, but the problem is that one often gets lost in the moving train of thoughts, several times I had to backtrack to see whose head I had entered. Her world is one constantly in flux, a beautiful fluid world, with constant movements.

I have thoughts of writing a funny story. I recently had a discussion with Lee, most of the movies he thinks are awesome, I thought pretentious. I hate films that take themselves so seriously. I'm not sure what my take of this on books are yet. Seems like most of the writers I like do have a sense of humor-yes even Virginia Woolf.