Jenny's review
The Powerbook
by Jeanette Winterson
Jenny's review
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
Jenny's review
rating:
Loved, adored, I want to dream in this book.
"Inside her marriage there were too many clocks and not enough time. Too much furniture and too little space. Outside her marriage, there would be nothing to hold her, nothing to shape her. The space she found would be outer space. Space without gravity or weight, where bit by bit the self disintegrates."
"Night. I logged on to the Net. There were no e-mails for me. You had run out on the story. Run out on me. Vanished.... Nothing. Here I am like a penitent in a confessional. I want to tell you how I feel, but there's nobody on the other side of the screen."
"You are closed and shuttered to me now, a room without doors or windows, and I cannot enter. But I fell in love with you under the open sky...."
"Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely."
"Love has got complicated, tied up with promises, bruised with plans, dogged with an ending that nobod...more
"Inside her marriage there were too many clocks and not enough time. Too much furniture and too little space. Outside her marriage, there would be nothing to hold her, nothing to shape her. The space she found would be outer space. Space without gravity or weight, where bit by bit the self disintegrates."
"Night. I logged on to the Net. There were no e-mails for me. You had run out on the story. Run out on me. Vanished.... Nothing. Here I am like a penitent in a confessional. I want to tell you how I feel, but there's nobody on the other side of the screen."
"You are closed and shuttered to me now, a room without doors or windows, and I cannot enter. But I fell in love with you under the open sky...."
"Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely."
"Love has got complicated, tied up with promises, bruised with plans, dogged with an ending that nobod...more
