The Blind Assassinre-read details:autumn 2012pub 2000fraudioread by Lorelei Kingbooker winnerroman à cleflibrary in norwaydropped a star with the re-read
I think I'm becoming addicted to tale within tale style stories, especially if they are done well. Did Atwood nail it? Yes she most certainly did. I was as anxious to find out what happens with the Blind Assassin as I was with the Chase sisters. The book started off slow but that's okay as I have pa...
Luminous writing that is all the more so compared against the bleakness of the story. This is a story within a story within a story....and maybe more stories within more stories. So multi-layered that I'll be unpacking them for a long while. This is about women. Two sisters. This is about being a wo...
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive: love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead: we'll open their letters, we'll read t...
The Blind Assassin is a piece of art.A novel within a novel. Both fictional auto-biography and pulp science fiction. There really is no easy way of describing it, apart from, impressive! Atwood is a genius in my mind. She manages to weave these two narratives into a tale so brimming with tension...
It was very confusing to begin with and up til midway, I didn't realise that there was actually only ONE narrator. Somehow, I thought there were 2 narrators and then I realised that I was completely off. In a way, I supposed, this explores her theme of secrecy - the double lives Iris Montford Chase...
What a reward. This book reaffirms my love of Atwood's writing. She is brilliant. Her writing is simultaneously dense, layered, and yet so easily accessible and enjoyable. Other good books will have writing that every few pages may make me stop and savour a particular phrase or sentence. This b...
This is, up until now, my favourite book of all times! It's unbelievable how Atwood manages to describe the past, the present and sometimes the future in such a complete way! Nothing escaped her - it has the unique action, the chilling insight into human mind, the twists of a really good story, and ...
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