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I read my first Winterson, (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ) several years ago. It was lent to me with several other "fluff" books--I expected it to be fluffy as well. Obviously, I was mistaken. Great book. I read The Passion for a class ...
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... Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet.
Lesbian classics, if she hasn't read them yet: Rubyfruit Jungle and Oranges are not the Only Fruit (anything Jeanette Winterson, really, if she likes her style). Annie on My Mind for classic teen lesbian fiction.
Aimee and Jaguar ...
... very good. Found them quite stylistically conventional but putting a certain possible wife's view that seems a lot rarer.
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - very intersting.
Last Evenings On Earth - by Roberto Bolaño - a wonderful collection of short stories, enough to ...
Better late than never. Let me add my voice of approval for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . I saw the film version on public television back when I was a wee tot. it is quite good.
... writing.
And Meddy -- I had cold this week, I like the idea of being inspiring really.
In my reading I finished Oranges are not the only fruit the other day - enjoyed it. Thought the women and the world of the women was very well drawn -- whilst in other ways it seemed like notes, ...
... my infinite infinite jest quest until it is done, or better in hand, and about all the rest of them too. I did start oranges are not the only fruit and its so short I must surely finish it.
... to enjoy if you're over 25 the first time you read it. I see you're involved with a Gay-Straight Alliance - have you read Oranges are not the only fruit ? It might be fun to see how East Lancashire reads onto Alaska!
I'm looking for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, hopefully in a pocket paperback edition, so it can fit in a stocking.
Winterson's best is her first: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is still just blindingly brilliant. Sexing the Cherry is great for a group read because it polarizes people like there's no tomorrow.
Never read any Kathy Acker that I can recall.
Where do I report for re-education?
inaudible in
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 20, 2009, 11:11pm)
15-17 : The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Evasion, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
21 : The Crying of Lot 49, V.
Here are the next 10 books from the list that I've read:
111. Portrait of a Lady
112. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
113. The Robber Bride
114. The Castle of Otranto
115. Remains of the Day
116. Death in Venice
117. The Child in Time
118. To the Lighthouse
119. Tess of ...
I'm about half-way through Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson. She has a very interesting writing style, and I am appreciating her exploration of fundamentalism.
... and very possibly more about a transgendered individual than a lesbian. Still, it's worth mentioning.
Winterson's Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle are absolutely essential.
Other than that, The Price of Salt (aka Carol) is a classic ...
... kinson
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Be ...
... Particles
Fear and Trembling
The Hours
The Story of O
The Mandarins
Bonjour Tristesse
The Quite American
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
The Player of Games
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
Brave New World
Thank You, Jeeves
Tropic of Cancer
Native Son
The S ...
... performance but also for Pam Franklin as Sandy.
Also, I'd place the miniseries adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit above the novel, especially for the starring performance by Charlotte Coleman. Winterson, incidentally, also wrote the screenplay for the ...
... actually sounds really interesting, especially as I love gender issues. So far the only other work I have read by her is Oranges are Not the Only Fruit , which I read a couple years ago and it totally creeped me out somehow. I think it was the mother. Scary.
Anyway, I read it on ...
... be about the awful oppression of religious frootloopery but it was more quirky than anything.
I expected that from The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit too. Love your word "frootloopery" and endeavor to use it four times this week. Great word!
35. Oranges are not the only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson, UK, 1985
I remember hearing Jeanette Winterson on the radio, how charismatic and interesting she seemed and her needing to hide novels, classics under the mattress from her mother as she was growing up. No book but the Bible was allowed
...
35. Oranges are not the only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson, UK, 1985
Great narrator. Great story. I thought this was going to be about the awful opression of religious frootloopery but it was more quirky than anything. I remember hearing Jeanette Winterson on the radio, how charismatic and ...
#56: I'm sure I agree, though I'm unqualified as yet to choose her best work--do share. (I've read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , The Stone Gods, and Sexing the Cherry-- the last of these would be my choice of the three, but I know it's a bit fey for some people's tastes. Anything top ...
43. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson
Brit lit, 1985
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. It was difficult to rate this book. At times I thought it was a 3, but many times it crept towards a 5. So, in the end, I'll give it a 4.
Comments: This is Winterson's debut novel, and I've ...
Here's another one for the reader who wants something less dreary than the standard 1001 book: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , by Jeanette Winterson. I wouldn't call it "uplifting" but it's not grim, and there are many laugh out loud funny bits.
Hi Nickelini. I also read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit recently. Liked it a lot more than I expected to and found it funny, as you did. Found the fables a bit of an interruption, but didn't hate them.
33. Oranges are not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson
Categories: Women authors, 1001 books
Comments and discussion over at 75 books . . .
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I really agree with your overall assessment of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit . I didn't know I liked it until I finished it. I hated those fables, finding them distracting and annoying. I would have eliminated them all had I been the book's editor!
I did decide, after having read this book ( ...
43. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson
Brit lit, 1985
Rating : 4 out of 5 stars. It was difficult to rate this book. At times I thought it was a 3, but many times it crept towards a 5. So, in the end, I'll give it a 4.
Comments: This is Winterson's debut ...
On my way out of town for a few days, so while I'm away I'll finish off Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and then start the Robber Bride for the upcoming group read at the Atwoodians group. Come join us if you're interested. I think the Group Reads bunch is just starting Woman in White, if ...
... upstate New York with Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and once I'm done there, I'll be back in Lancashire with Oranges are not the Only Fruit .
After being sucked back into the vortex of male writers, I've made my way out again and am reading Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.
Today I started Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. So far so good.
"Only" five now.
I have finished (since #3/May 11): On food and cooking, The omnivore's dilemma, Art of learning, Oranges are not the only fruit .
I am still reading:Time, Space, Knowledge and Tibetan Meditation.
I have started The book thief and Musicophilia (both slightly ...
I've just finished Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - it was completely different from what I thought it would be. I didn't expect it to be so funny, full of supernatural elements and the writing so smart and playful, it was all the more moving as it never thinks of being ...
... and she certainly carries off style and structure better than most genre writers. I enjoyed Sexing the Cherry and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit much, much more than The Stone Gods. You might want to check out Sexing the Cherry.
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... books before July, but I just got a coupon.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Circus Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
And without any coupon:
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Harry: A Histor ...
... I thought it had a lot of strong points, but pageturnability wasn't one of them. :)
crimson-tide, good to hear that Oranges are not the Only Fruit is just as good on a re-read. I loved it when I first got it. And fairy-whispers, I've got Brave New World on Mt TBR, I'm looking forward ...
Finished Oranges are not the Only Fruit and found it just as good the second time around. It has a strong autobiographical element and is a humorous and quirky account of her very unusual upbringing and the struggles she had being true to herself. Highly recommended . . . with a caution ...
Next up for me is a reread of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. I very rarely reread books, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this soon after it was first published, and as I've since had about four copies go through my hands at various stages thought I'd read it again ...
... I am alreadyu reading too much at the same time: The omnivore's dilemma, Art of learning, Art of the inner meal, Oranges are not the only fruit (quite short so I might be able to finish it soon).
And there are at least three other books tugging my sleeve because they want to be read ...
'Nother kick-start? Someone must have read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ?
... recommended it.
Both Beasts of no Nation and Night have been outstanding reads for me.
This year I have not enjoyed Oranges are not the only fruit , maybe I was expecting a different book altogether. Also not on my hit list would be Peter Carey's My life as a fake and The secret ...
... angst of wealthy teenagers in exclusive New England boarding schools ought to be struck from history.
My suggestions:
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum (n ...
... 4*
The Patient in Room 18 1929 3*
The Spare Room 4.5*
Proust and the Squid 4.5*
The Roman Hat Mystery 1929 3*
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit 4*
The Frightened Wife 3.5*
More details on my 999 Challenge thread.
... in a Name Challenge . The question is whether "body" is actually a "body part". :)
The copy of Oranges are not the Only Fruit that I read was circulating on a Bookcrossing bookray. Here are the comments of ...
I was surprised by Oranges are not the Only Fruit . I was all set not to like it, but by the time I finished it, I found that, not only did I like the book very much, but I was impressed by the author's writing enough to get more of her books. Now I only have to find the time to read them. :)
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson is reviewed here .
4*
Hi kambrogi, thanks for the recommendation.
tiffin, I think I miscounted The Tall Man into two categories. Couldn't decide whether to count ...
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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
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Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Stations ...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson from the TBR pile.
I'm in 19th c. Argentina with Pot Pourri: Whistlings of an Idler and in 20th c. Britain in Oranges are not the only fruit .
OK, here's that catch up from earlier in the week...
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
What Katy Did Next by Susan M. Coolidge
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edward ...
Sugar and other stories, by A.S. Byatt
The Olive Farm, by Carol Drinkwater
Oranges are not the only fruit ,by Jeanette Winterson
The Supper of the Lamb: a culinary reflection, by Robert Farrar Capon (twofer!)
Yard Fruit, by Emily Martin
... give you plenty to discuss.
There's also:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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7. Children of God
8. The Handmaid's Tale
9. The Light Stays On
10. Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
11. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (Book Club)
12. Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and The Language of Love
13. I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir ( ...
... Winterson also comes to mind. Sexing the Cherry (lots of focus on the twelve dancing princesses, a favorite of mine) and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit are two good examples. Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard reads sort of like an extended mythological/fairy tale style quest, and it's ...
Miela,
I hope you enjoyed Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . I found it quite funny. Additionally several sections of prose were beautifully written as well. I also found one item I did not expect to find: as an American, I tend to classify all British Christians as Anglican (high or low) or Ca ...
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I've read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Gravity's Rainbow 2 1/2 times, but I haven't read The Book Thief yet.
There, no popcorn necessary.
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I read Physik but I haven't read Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit .
... been reading. Pleased to finish this massive undertaking and I will probably read more of his work but not this year.
4) Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1985). I didn't like this as much as I expected to, though I'm pleased to have read it.
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4) Oranges are not the only fruit did not engage me as much as I thought it would. I had looked forward to reading this as it had sat on my tbr pile for a long time. Possibly ...
... A very good read but I wasn't totally captivated. 3.5/5
I was surprised not to be so taken with Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit as I had looked forward to reading it based on reviews and recommendations for the book.
Now I'm reading a children's classic Coral Islan ...
... halfway through The Naked God and am also reading one of my children's classics - Coral Island and have just started Oranges are not the only fruit . I like to have a few on the go at the same time.
Some interesting books on your list. Oranges are not the only fruit is on my list so it's good to see that you think it worthy of a reread - I've had it on my tbr pile for too long.
... also Bonjour Tristesse - it was one of my booknudges from the booknudge group.
I'm also have The Line of Beauty and Oranges are not the only fruit on my challenge list - like you I'm trying to attack my tbr pile.
Which book have you decided to read first?
... Renault
3. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
4. Maurice by E.M. Forster
5. The Charioteer by Mary Renault
6. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Winterson
7. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (READ : 28 Mar 2009)
8. Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (READ : 20 Jan ...
70.) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson ***1/2
Enjoyable, but I didn't like this as much as other Winterson I've read.
... been enjoying The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
Other than that, it's probably something by Jeanette Winterson. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit was pretty fantastic. And her YA novel, which I can't remember the name of right now (anyone know what I'm talking about? The main character ...
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#21: Nickelini and #22: mckait
I liked Oranges a lot too! Read it about a couple of time so far. =)
Nary a one *weep*
#21 I read Oranges .. liked it a lot. :)
... (it was on the sale table, and I've wanted to read this even before I read the fabulous Infidel, but now even more)
Oranges are not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson
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... gay, and that is also to say that she allows her characters to have similar or mixed feelings about love. Her first book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is semi-autobiographical. Very funny, very touching, very original. She is also religious (having been raised to be a missionary) and has a ...
Read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . How about Hallucinating Foucault?
... The Ground Beneath Her Feet - the beauty of Rushdie, and the sheer rock'n'roll energy of it.
Has anyone else read Oranges are not the Only Fruit ? I got a copy as a teenager (home sick, and my Mum knows how to cheer me up!) and read it in one afternoon, I couldn't put it down. A role ...
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#57 Oranges are not the only fruit , by Jeanette Winterson- For school! yay!
This book made me hate the church, and I am a Christian. Quick read though which is great for school books.
I am on the home stretch. Four more papers, one project, four exams then it's all over! ...
... Parade's End
3. Travelers' Tales Tuscany
4. Leonardo's Swans
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7. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
8. The Robber Bride
9. The Enchanted April
and so on . . .
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7. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole (June 22)
8. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann (July 18)
9. The Chil ...
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2. Leonardo's Swans, Karen Essex (May 9)
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5. Divided Minds, Pamela Spiro Wagner (July 24)
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... I can completely sympathize with you, blackdogbooks.
I have added to my ever-expanding Continent TBR I'm Not Scared, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , and Alexander's Bridge. Thanks (I think) for the recommendations, Prop2gether.
So here are numbers 167 and 168:
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is another from the 1001 Must Read list and it was great. The story of a young adoptee who is raised by a mother who is immersed in a C ...
Finished The Floating Opera, I'm Not Scared, (Niccolo Ammaniti--touchstone's not great here) and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit . Still working on Ashes and Diamonds--which is a great read, but the print is teensy-tiny and I have to read in only the most optimal conditions. Have Lucky Jim ...
... and those that are clear to an adult--well, the child is father to the man here. Highly recommended.
Almost through Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and finishing up Kiln People for my book club.
... "related" to Jane Eyre. Working through The Floating Opera by John Barth; I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti; Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson this weekend and plan to finish Ashes and Diamonds tonight.
In the last week or so, I've gotten:
From BookMooch:
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
A Fine Balance
The Human Stain
From LTER:
Any Given Doomsday
Plenty to read, that's for sure.
On Tuesday from B&N:
Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
and today from BM:
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
... tinction
Foe
The Drowned and the Saved
Reasons to Live
The Parable of the Blind
Love in the Time of Cholera
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Cider House Rules
A Maggot
Less Than Zero
i'll protect you from the jungle beasts
rubyfruit jungle
oranges are not the only fruit
few eggs and no oranges
the price of eggs
... Jane Eyre
4. Edinburgh: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. Dorset Sense and Sensibility
6. Leicestershire: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
7. Somerset: Persuasion
8. Norfolk: The Accidental
There are more, but I'll have to look them up because I don't remember.
Edite ...
Rose, Where'd You Get That Red? Kenneth Koch
Red Azalea Anchee Min
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
Blood on the Moon James Ellroy
Red Skelton in Your Closet Red Skelton
... such thing in all the world.'
'As a happy ending?'
'As an ending'. " (49)
I *love* Jeanette Winterson. Her books Oranges are not the Only Fruit and The World and Other Places are just as charming, too. I bet they all are.
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
... of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Sexing the Cherry and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
>105: I've been reading Winterson lately, too. I see that you have read Sexing the Cherry--have you also read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ? I really enjoyed it, and it's actually quite funny. It also has a more traditional narrative style than these other two (whether that's good or bad is ...
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.
But watermelons may be! Mmmm...watermelon.
Oo, you could read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Five Quarters of the Orange too.
I let this go for too long again! Continuing the binge:
#44: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Another good one. I love her storytelling style--the way she'll break off the narrative to tell a fairy tale or story with some mythic quality, one that works into the overall ...
... misstep. She should stick to what she does best, which is evidently not SF. I do recommend Sexing the Cherry or Oranges are Not the Only Fruit .
I started Under the Skin today. It's quite gripping so far, and enjoyably enigmatic.
This week, I've also read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (love it), Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (great, though I liked some sections better than others), and the first two books of Paul ...
Read in the last few days: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (my 2nd, and I'll be devouring her entire catalog in short order, I imagine), Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (surprisingly funny in some places), and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child.
I read the first two books of Paul ...
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
A Fish Dinner in Memison by E.R. Eddison
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Both The Electric Michelangelo and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit were set in my part of the UK...Lancashire. The latter also mentions my favourite town name, Oswaldtwistle.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeannette Winterson
The Blacker the Berry Wallace Thurman
Plum Bun Jessie Redmon Fauset
In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan
Strawberry Fields, by Marina Lewycka
Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant
... Edgeworth. I read the first one which was only 56 pages long, and I'm planning to start The Absentee soon. Next I read Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit which was amazing. I'm so glad I read this. It only took me two short sittings and I want to go back and read it again soon. And I read all ...
... trek out to the best second hand bookshop in town today, and I have paid for it dearly (well, not too dearly). I bought:
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
Brighton Rock ...
... I have discovered the following:
Carter Beats the Devil
Why do buses come in threes?
Is God really in control?
Oranges are not the only fruit
Blame the sky
My name is Red
Uh... Hey... Mom and Dad, I'm dropping out of college
Why do we say that?
One flew over the cuckoo' ...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeannette Winterson
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Roald Dahl
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
Peaches Jodi Lynn Anderson
I've always liked
Jeanette Winterson's coming of age / coming out novel - Oranges are not the only fruit .
and, for the precise description of what the book is about (and because of the obscurity of what people choose to study) - bostonbibliophile in Atwoodians : What other authors do we Atwood lovers read? (Dec 23, 2007, 4:28pm)
I like Jeannette Winterson too but I find her uneven. Loved Written on the Body and Oranges are not the only Fruit and was bored to tears by some of her others. I like A.S. Byatt a lot, and Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
27.) Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson - reviewed
oh, sorry vpfluke, I simply overlooked you -.- I hadn't time to write that review yet. but I think I'll have some time on Friday ^^.
... Drinkwater
Christ Stopped at Eboli, by Carlo Levi
Collective Vision: Creating a Contemporary Art Museum
Oranges are not the only fruit , by Jeannette Winterson
Coastliners, by Joanne Harris
Prater Violet, by Christopher Isherwood
The Bernini Bust, by Iain ...
... by Betty MacDonald
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice
... hie
Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
... Lives by Carol Berking and Leslie Horowitz, Forgotten Allies by Joseph T. Glatthaar and James Kirby Martin, and The Classroom is Bare by Martha Karlovetz. Women's Voices is a very good book. Many interesting accounts of life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Jim Matin's ...
... of storytelling with her? Does she ever push the "queer agenda" to a distracting degree? It sounds like her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , might be a good place to start--do you think so?
The Red Dragon
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Green Man : tales from the mythic forest
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
Violet and Claire
Black House
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Gray Heroes
The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood
The Last Vampire 3: Red Dice
Briar Ros ...
My name is Red
Oranges are not the only fruit
Novel on yellow paper
How green was my valley
The girl in blue
Indigo, or mapping the waters
Violet
My 3 favourite novels are Fruits Baskets Harry Potter and any sport and adventure books like my Lit Circles novel Boy Overboard
I just finished Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson and now I'm hooked. Have started Lighthousekeeping.
Must read everything she has written...
... childhood. This is a very easy to read book and one that captured my interst throughout.
Rating--4 stars.
20. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
I did not like this book. Somehow, I tend to miss what is funny in British humor. I think the book was intended ...
... a very absorbing read. I just wonder what made the parents be like that to their four children.
Yesterday I started Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. It doesn't seem like the kind of book I like, but I'll give it a go.
... of...", perhaps?
J.B. Priestley on Bradford, in various disguises - the warm, fluffy view of the industrial North.
Oranges are not the only fruit for a very evocative, but decidedly eccentric, take on East Lancs in the 1970s.
... and other faiths - i managed to come up with boating for beginners by Jeanette Winterson, and, i guess, her oranges are not the only fruit is quite critical also.
the most obvious title would be the satanic verses by Salman Rushdie, and i think it could be interpreted ...
... I splurged, between the Tarrytown Library sale and the Persephone Books tea, in NY City.
Here are the books I got:
Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
The unknown Sigrid Undset
Tipping the velvet by Sarah Waters
The ...
... that as YA, which may be heresy, as it was marketed for an adult audience without a doubt.
yet something like oranges are not the only fruit i wouldn't categorize as YA, possibly because of the way it is written? it's an intriguing question, perhaps worthy of another thread.
Try Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit by jeanette Winterson. I read it in HS. It deals with growing up in a strict religious household and realizing that you are gay. I think it's a semi-autobiographical piece.
Oh yeah and Francesca Lia Block's Cherokee Bat and Weetzie Bat books are ...
... interlude, if you will. She's my best friend's favorite writer, and he's always sending me her books. I really liked Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , which I actually read several years before I realized I was gay myself, and The Passion, which was even better. I've found the rest of her ...
... Roy. I've loved her non-fiction writing and her speeches, but had a difficult time staying with this book.
Oranges Are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Again, could not get into this one after 30 pages or so.
RED: The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
ORANGE: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)
YELLOW: The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
GREEN: Anne of Green Gables: Three Volumes in One (L.M. Montgomery)
BLUE: Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell)
VIOLET: Violet Eyes (Nicole ...
... Fitzgerald
A Fairly Honourable Defeat -- Iris Murdoch (thanks, Eurydice!!)
The Black Prince -- Iris Murdoch
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit -- Jeanette Winterson
Nice haul! & expecting a few more this week. Absolutely addicted!
I'm waiting to receive The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Hopefully I'll get a confirmation about these soon... I'm embarking on Murdoch's The Unicorn in anticipation :D
I added the swap funtion to my catalog and added some ...
Dydo: Phew, that's a relief ;)
All of Jeanette Winterson's fic after Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is either unreadably pretentious or a decent short-story idea stretched to fill a novel. If she had offered any of her last three novels to a publishing house under a pseudonym, no-one would ...
...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Supernatural ...
I totally agree that while Oranges are not the only fruit is enjoyable, it is both less entertaining and less innovative (she follows the tradition of Angela Carter closely here) than my favorite Winterson, The Passion. Both, however, are considerably better than the other Winterson I have ...
Hey kperfetto, I read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in May and enjoyed it, although my favorite Jeanette Winterson has to be The Passion.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. I've been meaning to read her for years, depsite my not liking Sexing the Cherry.
I'm hoping this will be the one.
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