
A Wintersonian April
I spent the whole of April getting through this book, a semi-autobiography of Winterson's, for two reasons. The first was that I kept taking breaks from reading to work, but the real reason I think is that Winterson's work touches my soul-- and without fail leaves me an emotional wreck. It is a pleasure-pain whirlpool and I want to jump in head-first. I always fall too hard for the characters I read about. I wear their pain and celebrate their happiness (usually, there aren't