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Tag Archives: Jeanette Winterson
The Books: “Gut Symmetries” (Jeanette Winterson)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Gut Symmetries, by Jeanette Winterson Yeah, so, right around here I stopped caring. It all started feeling the same. It’s all about infidelity, love triangles, and bisexuality. Not that there’s anything wrong with those topics … Continue reading
The Books: “Art & Lies” (Jeanette Winterson)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Art & Lies, by Jeanette Winterson This is where Winterson started losing me. It was only in the last couple of years that I felt her return to form. I do not mind experimentation but … Continue reading
The Books: “Written On the Body” (Jeanette Winterson)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson In Written On the Body (perhaps Winterson’s one of best-loved books – it’s not at all my favorite, as a matter of fact I started losing interest right … Continue reading
The Books: “The Passion” (Jeanette Winterson)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson The Passion is one of my favorite books of all time. It’s one of those books, too, that I can read, and read again, and again, and never get sick … Continue reading
The Books: “Sexing the Cherry” (Jeanette Winterson)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson A strange and wonderful book. I haven’t read it in years, and just flipping thru it this morning made me want to pick it up again. It’s truly bizarre … Continue reading
The Books: “Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit” (Jeanette Winterson)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson Oh, Jeanette Winterson, you crazy egomaniacal sometimes-brilliant sometimes-infuriating lesbian … how I love you and how you drive me crazy! My relationship with you is akin … Continue reading
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Oliver Twist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sense and Sensibility, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, Surfacing, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shining, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, The World According to Garp, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, White Noise, Wuthering Heights
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Books: History List
Taking my cue from Critical Mass, here is my compilation of favorite history, biography, and historical fiction. Criteria for books chosen is thus: The books chosen must be well written, and one does not need to have a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged A. Scott Berg, A.S. Byatt, Biography, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Charles Lindbergh, David McCullough, England, France, Germany, Going After Cacciato, Group Theatre, history, Hitler, Ireland, Jeanette Winterson, John Adams, nonfiction, Possession, Rebecca West, Richard Ellmann, Ryszard Kapuściński, Tennessee Williams, The Passion, The Soccer War, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam, William Shirer, Yugoslavia
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Tertium Non Data
The alchemists have a saying, ‘Tertium non data’: The third is not given. That is, the transformation from one element to another, from waste matter into best gold, is a process that cannot be documented. It is fully mysterious. No … Continue reading
