Jeanette Winterson – Cannonball Read 17

Jeanette Winterson; Joyce Carol Oates

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

American Melancholy by Joyce Carol Oates

April 6, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.” Another reread of The Passion for me, this time specifically because I had the audiobook for it, and that tends to go very quickly. One thing about the audiobook that works here especially is that they used a male reader for the Henri sections, and a woman for the Villanelle sections. What stands out most to me this time around is the way in which in […]

And Wait. Weren’t We Just Here?

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

September 9, 2022 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

cbr category time So this one was ordered from the library, from my decades long, very long list of Books To Order from the library, and hell if I know why. Usually I can see fifteen-years-younger me might have wanted to read it, but not this one. Because apocalyptic drama is not my thing, and that’s exactly what this was. The Stone Gods is written in sections that continue to circle back, or as the author puts it, “a repeating world”. And the world is […]

The Passion

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

August 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This was the first Jeanette Winterson I read, and I remember reading it nonstop at work in college. I really did enjoy it, but I am now thinking that it was given to me by someone I had a crush on also had a big effect. It’s a truly wondrous book in so many ways, especially because it’s wildly inventive and beautifully written. The novel opens with our first passion (well, two passions). Here’s the opening sentence: “It was Napoleon who had such a passion […]

The prince is sleeping now.

Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg

Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

Nightwings by Robert Silverberg

Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson

The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi

Technopoly by Neil Postman

The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman

The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

The Game of X by Robert Sheckley

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

White Fang by Jack London

The Man on the Balcony by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall

December 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Letters from Atlantis – 4/5 Stars In this novella, we meet a time travelling archeologist/anthropologist writing letters to his wife. Seems normal enough (well, minus the time travelling) but what we find out is that this narrator is actually 20,000 years in the past in Atlantis, the mythical or not mythical island country that existed pre-historically, and if the stories that go at least as far back as Plato go, was seemingly advanced. So the time traveler is observing, this society has electricity, as well […]

When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she said, “The Devil led us to the wrong crib.”

Why be Happy when you could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

March 10, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A very good memoir, and an especially good audiobook. What makes this is good audiobook is that Jeanette Winterson is the reader here, and like with a lot of memoir audiobooks, that makes all the difference. In some ways this book follows a lot of the same history as Winterson’s fist novel, the kind of autobiographical Oranges are not the only Fruit, but we clearly see the difference in a lot of ways. Jeannette, as a baby, is given up for adoption and found and raised […]

To avoid discovery I stay on the run.

The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson

March 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Another of the Jeanette Winterson books that I missed when it came out. This book takes place almost entirely in cyberspace (and I use this specific phrasing in a kind of tongue-in-cheek way) where Alix, an email writer can offer up any story or piece of writing on demand. This opens up a lot of possibility for those who want stories told. The style and execution of this novel is lightly narrated, and sparsely described, except in the world of the stories themselves, which are […]

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