moon110581 's review for:

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

3.0

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In the beginning of this book I had decided I'd probably give it four stars, as I was liking it better than the previous book club book. However, at about midpoint my opinion went back down to three stars and stayed there. Jeannette Winterson is a fascinating person. She's insightful and clever, she really seems like the type of person who really takes everything into deep consideration and thinks deeply. I enjoyed her feminist ideals, appreciated her struggle with being a lesbian in an intolerant environment, and enjoyed many of her interesting phrases and thoughts. Her struggle with mental illness was particularly interesting and insightful. That being said, her thoughts tended to be scattered, and wandered around a bit. There wasn't much in the way of narrative flow, and while at first I appreciated this break from the normal memoir, after awhile it made the book difficult to get into and concentrate on. It took me so much longer to read this slim book than it should have simply because there was nothing drawing me in.