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It took me a long while to finish this...but then again, for some odd reason, I almost always find books with things like depression and suicide a long read.
Anyway.
This is one of the quirkiest novel titles I've ever encountered so I expected a lot for the opening. Disappointingly, everything seemed to be moving so slow and the cluster of narrative expositions dealing with and about her monstrous mother, Mrs. Winterson, felt exasperatingly exhausting. A few chapters passed and I was close to de ...more
Anyway.
This is one of the quirkiest novel titles I've ever encountered so I expected a lot for the opening. Disappointingly, everything seemed to be moving so slow and the cluster of narrative expositions dealing with and about her monstrous mother, Mrs. Winterson, felt exasperatingly exhausting. A few chapters passed and I was close to de ...more
Es gibt Bücher, die gehen so nah ran, da finde ich es unglaublich schwer, eine Rezension zu schreiben. Vielleicht habe ich daher so lange gewartet, bis ich mich an Jeanette Wintersons “Why be happy when you could be normal” herantraute. Es ist die Geschichte hinter ihrem Erfolgsroman “Oranges are not the only fruit”, der Mitte der 80er Jahre erschien und ein riesiger Erfolg war. Es ist die analytischere Fortsetzung des semi-autobiographischen “Oranges”.
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I’m not the read-out-aloud type. I don’t post literary quotes on Facebook, Twitter or Goodreads either. But with this book I have not only read it out aloud to the wife and posted excerpts on Facebook, I have also gone to the trouble of phoning people in the middle of the night and sending out little titbits via Whatsapp.
This book has a quote/passage/chapter applicable to almost everyone I know. From an old man growing old but not up and your home being your “heart of the real” to why beating a ...more
This book has a quote/passage/chapter applicable to almost everyone I know. From an old man growing old but not up and your home being your “heart of the real” to why beating a ...more
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