The Handmaid's Tale
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781446470824
Publish date: April 6th 2011
Publisher: AudioGO
Edition language: English
Series: Gilead (#1)
by Margaret Atwood My first impression of this book was that it reminded me of Anne Frank's diary, writing in journal form about an oppressive situation in which the person writing must survive. Considering it was first released in 1985, the present tense writing that continued caught me off guard...
I didn't have an opportunity to write a review for this when I finished it several weeks ago, so I'm going to write a *very* brief review. I read this for Dystopian Hellscape. It was the first dystopian I'd read for ages and I loved it. Yes, it had a cloying, claustrophobic atmosphere, but that's ex...
Reading blackout before the end of the first bingo month and two more completed bingos in week 4 for a total of three bingos so far -- if anybody had told me this going in, I'd have questioned their sanity. Not least because I had a major project to complete this month, which I knew was going to in...
Well, that was as soul-drenching as any double bill ever was (even though The Testaments is marginally more optimistic than The Handmaid's Tale). It's not always a good idea for an author to revisit one of their standout classics decades later, but in this instance it clearly worked. Atwood stay...
Well, that was as soul-drenching as any double bill ever was (even though The Testaments is marginally more optimistic than The Handmaid's Tale). It's not always a good idea for an author to revisit one of their standout classics decades later, but in this instance it clearly worked. Atwood stay...
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