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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
challenging
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emotional
funny
reflective
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dark
emotional
reflective
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An absolutely brilliant book - I loved coming on this life journey with the author. It felt like a good friend was taking you through her life story of finding herself, and fighting through challenges, a tough relationship with her mothers, and other challenges thrown at her. The narrating style is captivating, thought provoking and allowed for self-reflection. I can’t wait to read some of her other books!
reflective
medium-paced
I'm writing this review months later... the fact I can't remember much about this book besides that it was pleasant enough for me to finish... says a lot. All that I remember is the author is queer.
Wonderful!
I love her honesty. Aside from her narrative on finding oneself, one's home, and one's mother, I really appreciated her views on religion, working class life, literacy amongst the working class. All very fascinating. Her journey though, is amazing, one of acceptance of self, survival, and love. Despite all her hardships she hangs on. Brilliant chapter on Madness and working through it.
I love her honesty. Aside from her narrative on finding oneself, one's home, and one's mother, I really appreciated her views on religion, working class life, literacy amongst the working class. All very fascinating. Her journey though, is amazing, one of acceptance of self, survival, and love. Despite all her hardships she hangs on. Brilliant chapter on Madness and working through it.
finding out i'm a memoir girlie this year has been really great for me. and this one is no exception to the others i've loved.
first of all the audiobook was narrated by winterson herself and was really brilliant. it just truly enhanced the experience and made it feel very personal and like just talking with her about these things, like with a friend.
i enjoyed the way in which she narrated her life and certain aspects she focussed in on. i loved all the stuff about her reading and her love and comfort she found in her library and books and so much she said really resonated with me and there were some quotes i really loved (in other themes too but especially regarding literature).
i'm a bit sad she skipped over the first like 20 years of her career because i find that kind of stuff really interesting but i respect her choice too because she had a narrative and feelings she wanted to show and she stuck to that. ultimately it was an exploration of her relationships with her two mothers and with love happiness and other similar feelings rather than a behind the scenes of her career and works.
it did end a bit abruptly in a way that caught me off guard as i was listening but i think in a way that feels true to life as the narrative caught up to where she is now as she was writing and it was like who knows what will happen next and this part of my life isn't over and this relationship doesn't end here. but this is where the book ends lol.
overall i enjoyed her writing and style and this made me really excited to read some of her fiction.
first of all the audiobook was narrated by winterson herself and was really brilliant. it just truly enhanced the experience and made it feel very personal and like just talking with her about these things, like with a friend.
i enjoyed the way in which she narrated her life and certain aspects she focussed in on. i loved all the stuff about her reading and her love and comfort she found in her library and books and so much she said really resonated with me and there were some quotes i really loved (in other themes too but especially regarding literature).
i'm a bit sad she skipped over the first like 20 years of her career because i find that kind of stuff really interesting but i respect her choice too because she had a narrative and feelings she wanted to show and she stuck to that. ultimately it was an exploration of her relationships with her two mothers and with love happiness and other similar feelings rather than a behind the scenes of her career and works.
it did end a bit abruptly in a way that caught me off guard as i was listening but i think in a way that feels true to life as the narrative caught up to where she is now as she was writing and it was like who knows what will happen next and this part of my life isn't over and this relationship doesn't end here. but this is where the book ends lol.
overall i enjoyed her writing and style and this made me really excited to read some of her fiction.
I did not finish this book. It has such great accolades, I think I must be missing something. I was anticipating a story and by page 100 nothing was clicking. It was more of a disjointed narrative, which I know some adore but just isn’t for me.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
inspiring
reflective
sad
The blurb says "Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory". I mean, I guess it is, but if I could add "gutpunching, raw, made me sit down and cry", thank you very much.
It starts almost innocently, and then grabs you and doesn't let go until you feel the full force of its emotion. Great memoir, condensed, stylistic, I have no words, just tears. Love!
It starts almost innocently, and then grabs you and doesn't let go until you feel the full force of its emotion. Great memoir, condensed, stylistic, I have no words, just tears. Love!
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