Wonderful. Winterson claims that the mind can't tell the difference between the past and future. Only now and not now. And the story goes round and round and round.
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Emerging fiction writer/poet of mixed heritage, Haudenosaunee (Cayuga) and Hungarian, living in Ontario, Canada. Published in Room Magazine, Vocamus Press, Humber Literary Review, Canadian Authors Association – Toronto. Love #writing, #art, #tech, and how they intersect. On Mastodon @annewalk@tootsweet.social
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2023 Reading Goal
30% complete! annewalk has read 9 of 30 books.
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annewalk reviewed The stone gods by Jeanette Winterson
Still Haunts Me
5 stars
This was part of my middle school curriculum. I initially read it in seventh grade and a few times later in my early teens. This is one of the few books that I have a full memory of. It haunted me. It still does. Is it better to have something and lose it or never have it at all?
annewalk rated Flowers for Algernon (Bantam Classic): 5 stars

Flowers for Algernon (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Keyes
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …
annewalk rated Anne Frank: 5 stars

Anne Frank by Anne Frank
A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
annewalk finished reading Writing and Workshopping Poetry by Stephen Guppy
Lots of useful information on writing poetry and exercises to practice the concepts learned. It's like taking a class without the tuition. If you're like me and know next to nothing about the mechanics of poetry writing, this book is for you.
annewalk rated Writing and Workshopping Poetry: 5 stars

Writing and Workshopping Poetry by Stephen Guppy
Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial …
annewalk reviewed Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Special Place in my Heart
5 stars
My mother was a teenager when she gave birth to me. She read this book while she was pregnant and, when I was born, she named me after the protagonist. Anne with an "E". I first read this book when I was nine years old, sitting in a car during a rainstorm. I started in the morning and finished just as it was getting dark and my mother called me inside. I've read it many times since, along with the entire series. It gave me a safe world to live in. I love them all.
annewalk reviewed A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Like going home
5 stars
These essays illuminate a lot of my own family memories and traumas. This makes it both a difficult read and a nostalgic read. Going home when home is a difficult place brings up feelings that are difficult to explain to people outside of those experiences but Alicia manages to bring the reader in without turning her stories into trauma porn.
annewalk reviewed Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
annewalk rated The Snakes: 4 stars

The Snakes by Sadie Jones
THE SNAKES tells the tense and violent story of the Adamsons, a dysfunctional English family, with exceptional wealth, whose darkest …
annewalk finished reading The Snakes by Sadie Jones
annewalk rated The Candy House: 5 stars

Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
annewalk finished reading The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
annewalk reviewed Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Like Memory, Dream, Legend, Song
5 stars
I'm not even sure I can call this a novel so much as an experience. Intensely poetic and crass, the main character's narrative slips in and out of dreams and, by the end of the book, a character of legend. The unflinching look at childhood trauma can be difficult to read.