The Prose Books set in post-apocalyptic settings usually have an ominous feeling about them. You will start to get that vibe from the very first line. The Handmaid's Tale (THT) wasn't different in that regard. Consider the following lines and you will see what I mean: "We slept in what had once bee...
In just three years the USA has gone from freedom to total control. Women and men are divided into classes, but unlike women, men can work their way up through the ranks. Women, however, have a set place in society and that place is vividly displayed by the clothes they wear: striped gowns for the l...
This book... there are no words for how much Atwood's words affected me. The book was originally published when I was about 16, but I didn't read it. In some ways, I regret that because I think it would have been interesting to compare the two experiences, 30 years apart. Kim at 16 would have tak...
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Honestly, from my friends’ descriptions of the book I was expecting something completely different. I was expecting the world Offred lives in to be openly violent and brutal rather than one filled with subtle brutality, psychological warfare, and religious...
This was my first experience reading anything by Atwood and, as I often do, I went into the story without knowing anything about it. It was really interesting and engrossing. It had some quirks, but mostly those quirks gave the story character and made it more interesting rather than being annoyin...
The Handmaid's Tale is the reason they tell you not to judge a book by its cover. Nothing, not the cover art, not the blurb, not the recommendations of friends, set me up for what the story I read, even though all were in some way or another accurate. This story is one all its own, so I decided to l...
This book made me soooo mad! I actually had to distance myself a couple of times just to get through it, because I was starting to smoke from my ears... I definitely wouldn't have made it in this society...The setting is a totalitarian distopian world, where woman are basically cattle, but worth les...
Having read a bunch of books taking place in Australia recently, I figured I should find something that would tell me about Canada. Or at least by a Canadian. Then I thought about a Canadian author whose name I've heard often, but whose work I've never touched. Margaret Atwood. So I checked out her ...
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