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A review by peachybee53
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
4.0
The writing style of this book is witty and endearing. It's been a little while since I've read fiction which I really enjoyed but which didn't leave me in tears, so this was a nice change; it left me feeling warm and refreshed.
My only downfall for this story was that I struggled to keep up with the alternating narrators, but that's a me-problem and not a book-problem. I will be rereading to better understand it, but overall just a little gem of a book.
Some favourite quotes:
"Tell me a story, Pew. - What kind of story, child? - A story with a happy ending. - There’s no such thing in all the world. - As a happy ending? - As an ending.”
"There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it has to be heard. In the endless babble of narrative, in spite of the daily noise, the story waits to be heard."
"I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving."
My only downfall for this story was that I struggled to keep up with the alternating narrators, but that's a me-problem and not a book-problem. I will be rereading to better understand it, but overall just a little gem of a book.
Some favourite quotes:
"Tell me a story, Pew. - What kind of story, child? - A story with a happy ending. - There’s no such thing in all the world. - As a happy ending? - As an ending.”
"There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it has to be heard. In the endless babble of narrative, in spite of the daily noise, the story waits to be heard."
"I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving."