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A review by ruxandra_grr
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
5.0
You can change the story. You are the story.
It's been so long since I read something like this and it was absolutely wonderful. It's been a lot (a year and change) since I picked up this book from the lending library of a musty, wonderful little book shop. The woman who kept the book shop died suddenly and I think I did not want this book to end, I couldn't finish it, because then the woman would be actually dead. (It would not be the first time I did that and I still haven't finished *that* book).
But love is the only clock that is worth keeping, as Alix, the main character in the book, says. This is a story about someone trying to understand love through stories. Read, reimagined, and written. There is so much passion and freedom and intensity and feelings, that I felt right at home within the pages. There is a fluidity to it (gender, time, space-fluid) that I really loved. It helped me remember things. It helped poke at the open wound of my heart and made some space there for feeling (not gonna apologize for being dramatic, if it's like emotionally true).
It's been so long since I read something like this and it was absolutely wonderful. It's been a lot (a year and change) since I picked up this book from the lending library of a musty, wonderful little book shop. The woman who kept the book shop died suddenly and I think I did not want this book to end, I couldn't finish it, because then the woman would be actually dead. (It would not be the first time I did that and I still haven't finished *that* book).
But love is the only clock that is worth keeping, as Alix, the main character in the book, says. This is a story about someone trying to understand love through stories. Read, reimagined, and written. There is so much passion and freedom and intensity and feelings, that I felt right at home within the pages. There is a fluidity to it (gender, time, space-fluid) that I really loved. It helped me remember things. It helped poke at the open wound of my heart and made some space there for feeling (not gonna apologize for being dramatic, if it's like emotionally true).