#oranges are not the only fruit

[derangedrhythms]

[…] the inevitable dying that comes with change.

Jeanette Winterson, from ‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’

#jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #prose #fragments #u

[trentlassos]

Ted Lasso, Season 3, Episode 7 "The Strings That Bind Us" || Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" || Ted Lasso, Season 3, Episode 6 "Sunflowers" || Ted Lasso, Season 3, Episode 12 "So Long, Farewell" || T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton" || Jeanette Winterson, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" || Ted Lasso, Season 1, Episode 1 "Pilot"

#ted lasso #robert frost #the road not taken #t. s. eliot #burnt norton #jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #web weaving #trent crimm #colin hughes #rebecca welton #willis beard #henry lasso #michelle lasso

[terribletruthsoversolaceinlies]

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Crown Prince Kiriona Gaia

#kiriona gaia #gideon nav #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #oranges are not the only fruit #jeanette winterson #wlw #web weaving #gideon the ninth #tlt

[brocktonbookworm]

Alright, I have quite a lot of time and a couple of books available to get invested in. I've been wanting to relearn how to analyse literature, so I thought it might be interesting to do a liveblog of one of them. Which do you recommend?

I'm aware that some of these are more political theory than something to analyse, but I already intend to read them anyways and this would give me an excuse to get started.

#the perks of being a wallflower #cats cradle #dirk gently #the communist manifesto #lenin #the great gatsby #oranges are not the only fruit #stephen chbosky #kurt vonnegut #douglas adams #karl marx #f scott fitzgerald #jeanette winterson #liveblog #poll

[witchhatgnat]

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is such an amazing semi-autobiographical novel because it is beautifully written, undeniably witty, and deeply sad story about a girl coming to terms with queerness. and it was published in '85. but it's also got so much great stuff about neglectful parents and it makes me shred couch cushions.

the main symbol in the book, the titular orange, is used to represent the neglect Jeanette faces at home. any time Jeanette's Mother is unable or unwilling to meet the emotional needs of her young daughter, she hands her an orange. like, every time. and it's kind of bizarre when and where she'll dole them out. Jeanette gets oranges in the hospital, at church, while walking around town. oranges as a response are so ingrained in Jeanette that when she has gone deaf and can't get her mother's attention, she just takes an orange and tries to sleep it off. like any time she needs a parental figure or someone to help her, she either gets an orange, is given an orange, or goes to someone else because her mother is too engrossed in her evangelism.

and the most depressing thing about choosing oranges as the symbol for neglect is that they have such a hard peel. like of all the most common fruit in europe and america, oranges are arguably the hardest for kids to reasonably open by themselves. even bananas, which also have a peel, are easily opened by most kids Jeanette's age. but oranges require work. you have to spend time getting to the actual sustenance in there. which is an amazing parallel to the way Jeanette's mom takes care of her kid. she provides all of the material goods necessary for a decent life (the family is poor but not destitute by any means), and even some community in the form of church (as toxic as it may be), but she does not provide any labor for her child. she refuses to do emotional labor, which is mirrored by the fact that the oranges are given to Jeanette in the place of emotional intimacy, regulation, and care. Jeanette has to do that part herself. in all ways, she is given the orange, but it never comes pre-peeled. she will always have to peel those oranges herself. she will always need to be the adult in her own life, because she does not have a mother who is willing to do it for her.

#can you tell i just wrote my literature midterm on this book? #it is so so so amazing #like one of my fav books now AND it is about being a lesbian #it also includes a reference to goblin market #which is my all time favorite poem #could not recommend more #oranges are not the only fruit #jeanette winterson #goblin market #christina rossetti #literature #academia #english #college #literary fiction #literary analysis #literary criticism #lit #author #novel #midterms

[mydailybookquotes]

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

-Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

#quotes #book quotes #books #inspirational quotes #mydailybookquotes #inspire #life quotes #inspiring quotes #life #bookblr #jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #Pride month #lgbtq+ #library

[queerbookshelf]

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

#queer bookshelf #books #queer books #queer reader #quotes #book quotes #book blog #queer reads #reading #jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #lesbian #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqia

[wellconstructedsentences]

No emotion is the final one.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

#oranges are not the only fruit #jeanette winterson

[leavemeinbrunswickstreet]

“To eat of the fruit means to leave the garden because the fruit speaks of other things, other longings.”

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

#jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #catholic aesthetic #web weaving #aesthetic #church aesthetic #gothic #ethel cain

[metaphoricalcolours]

"Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away."

— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

#jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #book quote #big 'friends break up friends get married strangers get born and strangers get buried' energy...

[derangedrhythms]

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson, from ‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’

#jeanette winterson #oranges are not the only fruit #prose #on reading #dr

[sunlitsoil]

Do we see what we think we see? Do we love as we believe we love? (Jeanette Winterson in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?)

#jeanette winterson #why be happy when you could be normal? #oranges are not the only fruit #literature #hopecore #lovecore #the presence of love is beautiful in itself

[wlwmoviebracket]

round 2 (50/64)

#monster #oranges are not the only fruit #round 2 #ok this is maybe the funniest one

[carpeosculum]

oranges are not the only fruit

jeanette winterson

#literature #orange #oranges are not the only fruit #wlw

[poetic-gays]

February Wrap-Up

- Maurice: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Odyssey: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Dos and Donuts of Love: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Antigone: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Well of Loneliness (finishing in March)

#book #books #bookblr #readers of tumblr #reader #readers #maurice #the odyssey #oranges are not the only fruit #the dos and donuts of love #the well of loneliness #antigone #radclyffe hall #sophocles #jeanette winterson #homer #adiba jaigirdar #em forster #february reads #february wrap up

[syringavulgaris]

cover designs by Beth Gray

#miscellaneous #oranges are not the only fruit #stumbled upon these while searching for something and i am in love. especially with the second design #penguin's random house imprint apparently held a contest in 2015 and these were entries in it :]