This had really brilliant parts. And a lot of boring stuff. All written very well, but it was a very long read. And it felt that way. What also didn't help was the different layers of the story, Grace's own story would have been fascinating enough without Dr. Jordan's life story etc. - it nearly...
"Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor. Murderer is merely brutal. It’s like a hammer, or a lump of metal. I would rather be a murderess than a murderer, if those are the only choices." Alias Grace is Margaret Atwoo...
Shitty authors often fill their books with useless details. It’s a sure sign the book is bad, but it’s understandable. If you have no idea what works, just throw everything in and hope something sticks. The problem with this shotgun approach in novels is that novels are whole pieces, and so it’s har...
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood is a wild, dark, romp of a book. In this crazy world, Stan and Charmaine are down on their luck. They have done everything they should and followed every rule, but Stan lost his job and they ran out of money. So now they find themselves forced to sleep in their...
In November of 1843, 16 year-old Grace Marks* was convicted of assisting in the murder of her employer and his housekeeper in the small town of Richmond Hills, in what would one day become Ontario. The case made a splash in the papers at the time and Grace continued to generate interest well into th...
It was a bit hard for me to rate this book. As I have mixed feelings about it. Some parts I loved, but some I didn’t. It was depressing and dragging at times. Even the narration was quite strange. Which jumps from third person to first and in between there are letters which continues the story which...
It was a bit hard for me to rate this book. As I have mixed feelings about it. Some parts I loved, but some I didn’t. It was depressing and dragging at times. Even the narration was quite strange. Which jumps from third person to first and in between there are letters which continues the story whic...
Alias Grace is a true-crime story based off a event back in the 19th century. The only different between this being under fiction and mixing with a story based on actual event Ms. Atwood decided to take a twist and make the story her own. You see the mind of someone who claims they don't remember an...
This unfolding story tells of a murder of a man and a woman through the eyes of one of the people accused of the deed. Interesting story but it did drag occasionally. The Story of the relationship between Grace and the doctor while he tries to find out what happened and she tries to understand wha...
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