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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Drôle, beau et triste. Très certainement à lire, même si je serais bien en peine d’en dire plus.
Witty witty witty book Jeanette, with all those pebbles and oranges, naming and God...The song called You dont need spirits when you've got the Spirit is golden!!:D But Im still in love with Stone Gods! Nice try:D
Il y avait plusieurs thèmes qui me parlaient directement, mais j'ai trouvé le tout difficile à lire. Ça ne coulait pas, et à la fin de ma lecture, je me suis rendu compte que je n'avais absolument aucune empathie pour la narratrice (personnage principal). Par contre, j'ai adoré que le récit soit campé dans un milieu religieux très rigide; ça m'a rappelé plusieurs souvenirs...
funny
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don’t know how to rate this, I neither liked or disliked it. A coming of age story of a precocious girl. Maybe because I was lost in some (ie quite many colloquial(?) references). I started reading this because I read Why be happy last year and enjoyed it very much. Jeannette Winterson’s writing style has also evolved (since it was written many years apart so..), but you can still pretty much still recognize her spirit in her sentences.
funny
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit” by Jeanette Winterson, What an exceptional hymn to the tumultuous conflict that accompanies ‘outgrowing’, in every sense of the word. The tender religious uncertainty, the abandonment of expectation, the coming to terms with sexuality, and the incredible resilience of human passion are all so powerfully articulated. This book sang to my soul, and will always have a very special place on my shelf. If their is anything that may convince you to read this book, let it be this: once you are done, you will feel as though a very kind and wise old woman held your head between her hands and told you to trust her, that you’ll be okay.
My favorite excerpt (this one hit me right in the gut given where I am in my life right now);
“Don't you ever think of going back?"
Silly question. There are threads that help you find your way back, and there are threads that intend to bring you back. Mind turns to the pull, it's hard to pull away. I'm always thinking of going back. When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you as changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
My favorite excerpt (this one hit me right in the gut given where I am in my life right now);
“Don't you ever think of going back?"
Silly question. There are threads that help you find your way back, and there are threads that intend to bring you back. Mind turns to the pull, it's hard to pull away. I'm always thinking of going back. When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you as changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One star for the orange demon and one star for the medieval parables (which I enjoyed as just random stories, not as allegories for her circumstances; I failed to see their relevance). The rest of it was boring, I did not care for most of the conversations. Oh, and the Englishness was dreary.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated