logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Community Reviews back

by Jeanette Winterson
sort by language
Death by Book Avalanche
Death by Book Avalanche rated it 7 years ago
4 Stars ☆☆☆☆This book had me hooked right from the beginning and I really struggled to put it down. There were a couple reasons though why I felt I couldn't give it the full 5 stars. The book was quite short, which I didn't think would be a problem, but this meant that the story didn't go as deep as...
Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 9 years ago
Like most experimental stories, it took me a few days to decide if this one is terrible or brilliant. With experimental writing, there is always a fine line between “OMG this is awesome!” and “WTF is this?” Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is part autobiography, part essay, and part fairytale. These d...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 9 years ago
bookshelves: radio-4, published-1985, glbt, author-in-the-mirror, lit-richer, protestant, play-dramatisation, amusing, britain-england, eng-lanc-accrington, authoritarian-parenting, autobiography-memoir Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from April 07 to 17, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/pro...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 10 years ago
This is a book about a teenage lesbian who is razed in a fundamentalist christian household. The book was written in 1984 and it very much smacks of the most tedious parts of 1980s lesbian radicalism. Despite the fact that the main male character is a man who has been henpecked into non-existence ...
Gayla
Gayla rated it 11 years ago
I had every intention of loving this book, but unfortunately it didn't grab me the way that Winterson's novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit or her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? did. Winterson's writing in this novella is as vivid and evocative as always, but I wanted more charact...
Born to be Bookahoilc :D
Born to be Bookahoilc :D rated it 11 years ago
Per me vale lo stesso discorso de "Scritto sul corpo": la Winterson scrive meravigliosamente, a tratti ironica, a tratti profonda.. E sebbene mi piaccia molto ciò che scrive, è pesante. Non scorre, c'è poco da fare :(
deborahmarkus7
deborahmarkus7 rated it 13 years ago
I'm rereading this while I wait for Winterson's memoir "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal" to come in at the library. Good grief, it's even better than I remembered -- and this isn't the first time I've reread it.
Bookake
Bookake rated it 14 years ago
Oranges is a semi-autobiographical novel, about a girl, Jeanette, adopted by a fervently evangelist christian in northern england. Her mother teaches her to read using the bible, on only sends her to school reluctantly when the authorities interfere. Jeanette also carries her mothers faith, and is...
Books by the Lake
Books by the Lake rated it 15 years ago
A growing-up story told with a lot of comic verve. I can't figure out quite how autobiographical it is -- sometimes I think, if this was literally true would you dare to write it? But the narrator is named "Jeanette". She obviously loves her mother but her mother would not be at all pleased by this ...
Cecily's book reviews
Cecily's book reviews rated it 17 years ago
Semi-autobiographical tale of adopted Jess growing up in an austere evangelical family, rebelling religiously, socially and sexually as she tries to find her way in life. Seemed quite scandalous when I first read it, but much sadder and more touching now. For the truer, grittier, more analytical ver...
Need help?