ceckroate 's review for:

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

3.0

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The title is enough to grab anyone’s interest, isn’t it? I really have a thing for memoirs, regardless of the fact that they’re often truly painful reads - nobody is writing a memoir about a bland suburban life, of course. This one took a bit of a different tone while talking about equally shitty subjects. Winterson is very blunt and matter-of-fact in her writing, and it’s a style that really worked for me. Her story moves quickly, and has just the right amount of wit amidst dealing with some serious issues. The main negative for me is that I have not read her novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Looking back on it, it was dumb of me to read this one first, as this is the true story behind Oranges, and I think I would have enjoyed this one even more had I been more familiar with the situation.