Comments on: Review: Weight, Jeanette Winterson

By: JoV

JoV — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:07:01 +0000

I have finished reading this today, like you I want more of my Ritalin NOW!!! Winterson is such a brilliant writer and this one will not be a damper. 🙂

Nice blog and interesting to note we follow “almost” similar blog community. 😉

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:57:42 +0000

In reply to blodeuedd. I sometimes like jumpy books - I think. It all depends on the execution. In this one, it felt like she was jumping around because there wasn't enough story in any one place to justify staying with it for longer than a page or two.

By: Review: After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell « Jenny's Books

Review: After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell « Jenny's Books — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:06:28 +0000

[…] mother’s and her grandmother’s, shifting points of view and tenses every few pages. I know I complained recently about rapidly-shifting narrative focus. It’s disorienting here too, and there’s no reason to […]

By: blodeuedd

blodeuedd — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:53:26 +0000

Hm, I read and loved The Lighthouse..and the orange book was good too. But dunno about this one, I do not like jumpy books

By: The Literary Omnivore

The Literary Omnivore — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:16:48 +0000

Hmm… I might give this one a shot because it sounds adorable, but switching so suddenly and so often might keep me from reading this. Also, you make me want to read oodles and oodles of Kage Barker, so that comes in first.

By: trapunto

trapunto — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:04:33 +0000

In reply to Jenny.

The Stone Gods. The first colonizing mission to another planet. Post-apocalyptic environmental crumble alongside absurdist commercialized culture that doesn’t really care. Underclass intelligent robots. A bunch of sci-fi tropes, but not handled in a traditional way at all.

I was looking on my library’s online catalog for the title, and my, she has good ones. They all give the sense of weighty, occluded anticipation that is what I love to feel when I’m heading into a book. I think I will keep reading her just to crack the shell and see what’s inside a title like Gut Symmetries or Tanglewreck. Of course, there’s the disappointment potential.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:12:02 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. Really? I think she's pretty famous in England at least, or maybe I'm exaggerating her fame in my mind because I've known about her for so long. (My sister read Sexing the Cherry when I was still young enough to giggle at the title in embarrassment.) Well, she's a good writer! This one wasn't for me, but I enjoyed Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is her most famous book (to my knowledge).

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:59:01 +0000

Hmm, never heard of this author. Nicole beat me to the joke about it not being weighty enough.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:06:04 +0000

In reply to zibilee. It is absolutely worth reading! The adorable thing that happens is unbelievably adorable. I knew in my mind that it was a bit silly and random, but Winterson sells it, sells it, sells it. You'll know the bit I mean when you get to it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:04:17 +0000

In reply to litlove. What have you liked of hers? I really want to love her, I have heard such amazing things about her.