and then there were four
Apr. 20th, 2009 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiI finished reading The Stone Gods this weekend, which leaves only four Winterson novels I have left to read, until she writes more. There's a certain sadness, with a trace of desperation, to this realization for me. I'm not someone who can usually read books more than once, so I'm trying to pace myself, not run out too soon. I feel a touch crazy when I think about it, so I try not to, and instead focus on the works themselves.
Of all her books I've read to date, this one had the strongest emotional impact on me. It's furiously angry in places, with an anger that I was surprised to find resonate so strongly and deeply within me. It's also painfully, awfully sad, in a way that is both very personal and sweepingly general, historical and human. I would recommend it strongly, but don't know that it would have the same effect on anyone else; it feels like a marker in time for my state of mind and development, wrapped in beautiful, aching words and scintillating emotional genius. I guess that's recommendation enough.
Of all her books I've read to date, this one had the strongest emotional impact on me. It's furiously angry in places, with an anger that I was surprised to find resonate so strongly and deeply within me. It's also painfully, awfully sad, in a way that is both very personal and sweepingly general, historical and human. I would recommend it strongly, but don't know that it would have the same effect on anyone else; it feels like a marker in time for my state of mind and development, wrapped in beautiful, aching words and scintillating emotional genius. I guess that's recommendation enough.
