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Good enough to make me want to read the original novel and watch the TV series

#aprilpoetrychallenge
#nationalpoetrymonth
@wanderinglynn

#tulip
#thehandmaidstale

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This book was scary. I hate that it‘s still so relevant. I hate that it could happen here. #WithTheBanned

#WithTheBanned

#WithTheBanned

#WithTheBanned

Hey fellow banned book readers! Here‘s the first discussion question for our March book.

Like last time, I‘ll just tag everyone in the first post. I‘ll be posting 4 questions total.

#WithTheBanned #buddyread

this is such good news for me, been waiting for a good while…so excited for the next season… #resist #readerlife

Read for #withthebanned Somehow not what I expected after hearing about it all this time. Offred navigates a society where women aren‘t allowed to read, write or express themselves in society & are reduced to breeding potential while she recalls her life before. Atwood used historical touch points (which are too relevant today) to show how society changes & can bow to extremists even in a short time. Looking forward to the discussion!

Finished ✅

Time to reread & then share Atwood's all-too-relevant classic in our LFL... #Atwood #womenwriters #lfl

My BN trip‘s theme today was banned books.

My sister recommended The Assistant to the Villain series so I picked those up too and my new hot beverage reading buddy was $5 at the checkout.

#withthebanned #letsdothis

repost for @Jadams89:

Our #WithTheBanned March read is The Handmaid‘s Tale. I‘ve had this on my TBR for a long time and look forward to everyone‘s thoughts! #buddyread

Let me know if you‘d like to be added to the tag list!

Our #WithTheBanned March read is The Handmaid‘s Tale. I‘ve had this on my TBR for a long time and look forward to everyone‘s thoughts! #buddyread

Let me know if you‘d like to be added to the tag list!

Loved this interview! Fascinating - I didn‘t realize she was such a student of history. https://youtu.be/vNvVsl5OZ7o?si=MZKRupR7TAuD_Bhy

I will turn 50 in 2025 and to celebrate I pulled 50 books from my unread shelves. These are books that I have always wanted to read or are from my favorite authors but for whatever reason have gone unread. What am I waiting for?! This is the year. The tagged will be the first. #sundayfunday

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Here's an example of a book that gets lots of hype and seems to be very much at the top of the recommendation lists, but was just meh for me. I found the parallels between Atwood's distopian future and our current times rather terrifying in many ways; however, as far as the storyline goes I guess I was expecting more. Not sure what that would be exactly, just that as a whole it fell a little flat. Still glad I read it though. #audiobook

Who doesn't love a Venn diagram?

Saw this on BigTentUSA.org "It's not partisan. It's #Democracy" #vote #women #freedom

So not a fan of book banning! Lots of these I haven‘t heard of, but the number of kids books on this list is astounding, yet not at all surprising. I‘ve always let my girls read anything they were interested in reading, just as my parents did with me when I was growing up.

3 faves are the tagged book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Speak.
#tlt #threelistthursday

Read a banned book! Banned book week is September 22-28!

I grabbed a few from my shelves and my favorite banned book bookmark! 📚❤️

Show us some of your banned books! 📚 📚

#ReadBannedBooks
#BannedBooks

4/5 ⭐️
Il racconto distopico di una società che priva la popolazione di tutte le libertà individuali, una società in cui a perdere sono principalmente le donne: riporta la testimonianza di una donna che le libertà le ha vissute, e tutto ad un tratto si trova a vivere senza
La lettura è molto piacevole, a tratti quasi poetica
Sono curiosa di scoprire come hanno deciso di rappresentare la storia nella serie (che guarderò in un futuro non lontano)

#AboutABook #Controversial
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#AboutABook #Controversial @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

An important and terrifying book right now because it is so topical! But I don‘t think there will ever be a time this won‘t be controversial, because a story where a repressive counter-regime has both already risen and fallen in recent memory is always going to imply a vague threat to both “sides” of the political divide.

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

#setinfuture
#Aboutabook

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#CoverLove #Red @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Did anyone else catch this article! I can't handle. She's a queen!

https://people.com/idaho-graduate-gives-superintendent-copy-of-the-handmaid-s-ta...

My collection of this one ❤️📚🤍 I still haven‘t read The Testaments… really need to get to that one!

#AwardWinner
#SpringSkies

Quite a chilling tale of a possible future dystopia from the viewpoint of a handmaid, Offred (belonging to Fred). Womens rights are greatly restricted and some men are in total control. I haven't seen the movie or the TV series but I have looked at the recent graphic novel. I recommend it for open-minded adults or older teens. Reminds me of 1984 a bit.

Starting this book that is often banned. I haven‘t seen any of the modern TV series but I know a little bit about it. Hope it never comes to be!

1. LOTR series
2. Little House on The Prarie series
3. Handmaids Tale (novel & graphic novel).

@dabbe . #tlt.

What about you @DinoMom , @DebbieGrillo , @TheLudicReader

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I just rewatched season 1 of the screen adaption of The Handmaid‘s Tale and I have to say, there is some serious sh*t going on in the US today that uncomfortably resembles Atwood‘s dystopia. On multiple fronts. 🥹

It took me awhile, but this is my #bookerdozen.
The Handmaid‘s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
Trust, Hernan Diaz
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

Shocked at how few winners I‘ve read!

Massachusetts Conference for Women. 💜💙

Loved the illustrations, perfect length.

? Tagged. Something that very well could happen is far scarier than monsters.
?Movies, yes. I love gory ones, like Hostel and Would You Rather. Creepy can be fun, but I need action. For books, I enjoy a sumputous, creepy setting & and mystery over "horror." They haven't scared me yet. Poltergeist & Exorcisms are NOT my jam. ?
? Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

I was at the hairdresser yesterday and they had Monocle issue 164, June 2023, art special, inside they had an interview with Atwood, and it says:
“The American Library Association lists The Handmaid‘s Tale as one of the country‘s most regularly banned books; to illustrate the point, Penguin Random House even produced a special edition of the novel made from fireproof paper and filmed the author blasting it with a frame-thrower.”

I had no idea.

#BookBinge #SpecialEdition One of my favorites is this Folio edition. Just had to have it!

(1985) Here's another in my list of books-I've-sometimes-pretended-to have-read-already. It's brilliant, chilling, and holy dystopia Batman it feels more relevant now than I imagine it would have done in 1985.

Bad news: Puddles has a 10 minute timeout for EATING MY BOOK! 🥺

Good news: I‘m finally reading this after owning it for 5+ years. This is actually the second copy I‘ve purchased, after giving the first unread copy to a friend. 😅 I demolished the first half of it all in one go last night. Such an addictive and chilling read. 🖤

#14booksin14weeks