false 15052 18 <div>Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.<br> <br>One of the most original and extraordinary writers of her generation, Jeanette Winterson has created a modern fable about the transformative power of storytelling. <br><br></div> 2531716 2004 Lighthousekeeping total:1398|5:331|4:523|3:382|2:134|1:28| 1398 5189 1864 173 3 5 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Feb 27 14:23:13 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 14:23:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 18:50:55 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 13:06:57 -0700 2007
favorite excerpts:

"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 10:40:03 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 18:51:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 10 18:27:10 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 18:27:56 -0800 2009 I was fortunate to get this book in braille from the LIbrary for the Blind.

This book was wonderful in its way. I suppose it could be called metafiction. It was hard to tell at times what was story and what was truth. A girl, who c...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 04:52:38 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:45:38 -0700 2009 Shadow Country, but its work to read. This book is play. I'm not very far in Lighthousekeeping. In fact I picked it up just...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 30 15:58:58 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 16:25:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 24 16:10:29 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:14:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 20 10:26:19 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:42:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 14:52:08 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 15:05:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 29 16:27:42 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:28:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Oct 01 23:57:55 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 23:58:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Feb 25 07:52:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 08:14:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:28:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:35:44 -0800 2009
Both of these books are animated by Winterson's notions of the complexity of what we call reality, of the depth of what lies beneath the su...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 08:56:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:18:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 16:47:52 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 06:10:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:52:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:56:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:39:13 -0800 2008 Sun May 10 06:56:49 -0700 2009 Unfortunately, that paragraph doesn't come until pa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 21:13:42 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 21:13:51 -0700 2008
The narrator of Lighthousekeeping is a girl, Silver, who becomes orphaned and, for want of anything else to do with her, is apprenticed to the local lighthousekeeper, the blind Pew. The local town is Salts, the lighthouse located at Cape Wrath -- and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 17:17:19 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 07:35:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 02:34:10 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 04:30:10 -0700 2009 1
i loved the characters and and the story itself. i loved how silver was a sincere and simple person, who always remained a child at heart (stealing the bird and book for non-profit reasons is a perfect example).

but jeanette winterson's writing style is not r...more...]]>