Used Books

I've been reading Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse since February. I like the book, but it's slow going because her sentences are sooooo long. It takes all my concentration.

I bought the book at a used book store several years ago. It belonged to E. Curry. I'm a fan of used books and pass-along books, but E. Curry has a bizarre underlining/highlighting (pink) habit that is sometimes distracting and usually mysterious. I just can't figure out 75% of his/her highlighting.

For example, I can understand underlining, if you're an underliner: "her own daughter must be happier than other people's daughters."

But, "This was said loudly in a pause" and "Minta Doyle and Paul Rayley had not come back then"?

When I'm reading a used book, I always wonder about the people who have read it before me. Did E. Curry finish To The Lighthouse? It seems so because there is underlining on the last page (I peeked). Was it read for school? Probably, I mean, who reads Virginia Woolf? Where was he/she when he/she read it? What did E. Curry think of the book?

I remember a guy who was in my first-year section at law school. He had his Property book open during class and he had highlighted EVERYTHING on the two pages that were open in front of him, EXCEPT ONE SENTENCE. That is the type of person you meet in law school.