I enjoyed this quite a bit, though I'm not sure I found it quite as revolutionary as it has been painted. Much of this is probably that it is a modern classic--I'm sure ideas from this have trickled down as time went on, and we are looking at a 30-year-old book. Despite that, it has aged well and is...
My 200th book review is on a classic - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Read why this 1985 novel is still very relevant (and frighteningly so) today in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/10/16/not-a-blueprint/
Here's a book I wish I would have read years ago, maybe college-age. Certainly I might have changed my mind about some things sooner rather than later. I might have recognized rape culture for what it is and my role in it. As it is, The Handmaid's Tale is still revolutionary. It's still applicable...
The world has changed. The US government has long since been deposed and the new Republic of Gilead has arisen. Told through the eyes of one Handmaid (Offred), the new world order is revealed and explored. Her memories of a time when she had a job, a husband, and a child are only that now. Her new l...
It took me about a month to finish this novel, not because this book is bad or a chore to read, but because I listened to the audiobook and I tend to fall asleep while listening to an audiobook. So I had to find some fully-awake sparetime to finish this novel, which I ultimately did. And it was tota...
TRIGGER WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF RAPE AND SWEARING IN REVIEW.This book. This wonderfully written beautiful and haunting book. I seriously had to go and read another book after I finished this since this book left a distinct chill in me.Probably because at least in the United States right now, we ha...
Oh, how I wanted a happy ending for her. I thought of her as June, because that was the last name she mentioned when she identified her roommates in Chapter 1. I desperately wanted June to rediscover her beloved Luke, to reunite with her daughter, to reconnect with her mother, to gloriously return...
67. THE HANDMAID’S TALE, BY MARGARET ATWOODAnother recommendation from Michelle. Well, kind of, she just said Margaret Atwood; I’ve had this book on my to-read pile for some time now, and I thought it was about time I got to it.Synopsis: In a dystopian future where Old-Testament Bible morality is la...
This is my review from 2012 and an update: HT was not the first work by Atwood that I read, that was a short story or two in a Canadian Lit class, but it was the first novel by Atwood that I read. I read it over the summer, over the length of a day, torn between the story and the World Cup and wal...
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...
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