JEANETTE WINTERSON
I only discovered the books of Jeanette Winterson last year. She’s since turned into one of my favourite writers. Her use of language is exquisite.
I have the habit of tagging my books with little post-it stickers when I read something really beautiful that speaks to my soul. Winterson’s books look like porcupines!
“The Power Book” is a mixture of fairy tales, myths, popular culture and meetings in the blue nowhere of cyberspace. Above all she explores the myths and mysteries of love. These are some of the beautiful passages from the novel:
“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I’m talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection, or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even is built like the Titanic you go down. That’s the size of it, the immensity of it. It’s not proper, it’s not clean, it’s not containable”
“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about the riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.”
And finally;
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness but happiness in what is past”
“The Powerbook” also has a beautiful cover. Again, how can Kindle possibly replace a real book - half of the pleasure of the whole reading experience is lost in translation!