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28/100 for the third AP Lit list.

Some faves:
1) A Prayer for Owen Meany
2) Middlemarch
3) Oryx and Crake (I need to re-read this trilogy!)

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3/5

A post-apocalyptic story told from the perspective of someone who didn't realize he was witnessing the end of the world until it was too late.

It's a strange book. I had a tough time reading it.

ebook: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
audiobook: Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas
print book: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

#unpopularopinion I've seen a lot of good reviews for this, but I'm finding it boring and I can't get into it. I'll definitely hold on to it, maybe give it a try again at a later date.
#hailtothebail

1. Tagged
2. The King's Bed: Sex and Power in the Court of Charles II by Michael Walsh & Don Jordan
3. UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here and Out There by Garrett M. Graff

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Snowman wakes before dawn.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
Day 29
#ABookADay2024

I hit my reading goal with this one!

Chilling and bleak with George Saunders vibes. I‘d had this on my shelf for years and glad I finally read it as Atwood is a master of dystopian fiction. I wish there was a little more depth to the relationships though.

Check out my book recommendation on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-oryx-and-crake

🎧📖 Rereading. I never did finish this trilogy, so I'm starting from the beginning. A lot of ins and outs with these books, I don't even remember what happens.

The book starts off very slow, but once you get half way through all the pieces start to come together. It jumps back and forth between present time and the main character Snowman‘s past. There are so many things in this dystopian novel that point to the direction we are unfortunately currently moving towards and some items seem to be our current reality. So, it‘s disturbing because how real it is. It doesn‘t really end so I‘ll read the next one.

Today's library sale book haul. I've actually already read Oryx and Crake, and the rest of that trilogy, and I loved it. I've never read any Manga but this one looked interesting.

📚 The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Oryx and Crake, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
✍️ George Orwell
📺 Orphan Black 📽️ Oldboy (Korean), O' Brother Where Art Thou
🎤 Ozzy Osbourne, OK Go
🎶 O Helga Natt (Jussi Björling), Oh Darling! (Sahara Hotnights), Ode To My Family (The Cranberries)

#ManicMonday (on a Tuesday again) #LetterO
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Oryx and Crake is just perfect speculative fiction. The first in Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy.

Other favourites include:-
Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield
Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
On beauty by Zadie Smith
Origin of the species by Charles Darwin

In book 1 of her trilogy, Atwood is pulling from several artistic strains: the castaway narrative of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, the dystopian classism & consumerist critique of Huxley's Brave New World, the illiterate literacy of Bradbury's Farenheit 451 & the body horror of Cronenberg to craft an interesting novel. At the heart of the novel are the titular characters, who we come to know very well, yet Snowman remains a bit of a mystery & that is

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

I‘m really looking forward to experiencing where Atwood‘s brilliant, prescient, terrifying imagination takes this trilogy. Packed with critical scrutiny and forewarning, the first installment raises numerous questions and themes about our world that are worth our collective speculation.

My precious (all signed 😍).
Oh and Daisy is alright too I guess 😁

Finally succumbed and got my first folio. I've been eyeing this up for several years. The cover glows in the dark!

Action, suspense, and a love story, set in a (frighteningly plausible) dystopian future. I reread this in 2020, maybe not the best year to do this lol!!

Did the whole trilogy, in order and back to back this time. Where to start? The biotech animals, the voting machine hacking, the world-wide pandemic. Margaret Atwood is a treasure.

Look what just arrived! Thank you so much @jenniferw88 for posting this to me. It was very kind of you. 😘 #jbuk

“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually #locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.” #QuotsySep21

This was good but a whole lot darker than I was expecting. It‘s told in two different timelines where you slowly see how things evolved into the dystopian world the book opens with. I found it hard to want to see the protagonist to succeed in the dystopian timeline because he was kind of an asshole in the flashbacks.

Fantastic book! I have some other stuff to finish first, but I will definitely continue the series. Well written, well crafted, funny and awful! So much to love about Atwood's creation. I wanted more Oryx, and the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger, but it's still great.

This one took awhile to get into, but as always, M.A. puts forth something worth considering. A dystopian/science fiction that flips back and forth in time between the overpopulated totally messed up world as it was and the after, where our lone survivor, Snowman, known in the before as Jimmy contemplates the series of events that have brought him into post apocalyptic now.

We are getting blasted with snow and cold today here in the mitten so Im finally trying out the tea bloom that I got for Christmas! Not loving the tagged book thus far so if it doesn't pick up by time the tea is gone I'm bailing. 😬

#TBRPile 📚 Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and raccoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyes Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

#bookreport week 2/1/21 @Cinfhen

Bailed: Oryx and Crake
Finished: Blood & Sugar, Clash of Empires, Women Talking, Yuletide
Started: The Italian, The Nickel Boys, And the Band Played On

First book of 2021 is a leftover from 2020 and a DNF as the animal cloning/testing is a bit close to home - I wouldn't be around if the doctors hadn't tested my drugs on animals first.

1 🌟 and I'll need to find another book for #readcanada #ottowa @Book_Fiend_Melissa - probably not Atwood as I didn't like The Handmaid's Tale either.

629pts #teamreadnosedreindeer #wintergames2020 @StayCurious .

#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

Finished Women Talking today
Start and continue Oryx and Crake & The Italian
Continue Clash of Empires

370pts #teamreadnosedreindeer #wintergames2020 @StayCurious

I'm halfway through this book and I'm fading off. Is it worth it to read it to the end? I wonder if I need to be in a different mood or stage of life to appreciate it, yet I've heard it's so good. I think I'm not enjoying the fact that it exists in a dystopian world. Maybe I need to feel more grounded at the moment?
Is the ending anything I need to hang around for?

Official #bookspinbingo December card @TheAromaofBooks

26pts #wintergames2020 #readnosedreindeer @StayCurious

Between work and appointments, I've been running around like a crazy person all week so I decided to treat myself to some retail therapy, Oryx and Crake in celebration of Margaret Atwood's Birthday last week and I finally got a ceramic tree of my own! I've wanted one for years and found this one 50%off 🤩

Getting into Atwood for the first time and it's excellent so far...

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 146

#tbrmountain #bookbuyingdiet

Snuck in one more September #bookspinbingo book before October numbers are drawn tomorrow morning! Will I finish DARK LANDS tonight to get a total of 7 bingos? 🤞🏻🤞🏻
This book was okay. It was an interesting concept, but the main plot was all flashback with felt kind of pointless? Like just set it in the past. Don‘t know if I‘ll continue with the series or not.
+6 for #teamslaughter
#scarathlon #cyoreadathon

I‘ve spent the past year and half building up a glossary of terms and usage at work across all 60+ of our manuals. It‘s super monotonous work, but it can be kind of peaceful to spend a quiet morning with coffee and an audiobook, running simple searches and inputting data.
Until the cat starts screaming for attention. 😹🤦🏼‍♀️

Read good stuff about this trilogy here on Litsy recently and picked this up today✨🍃 my plan to not buy anymore books until I hit a bingo on my TBR is not going well lol I have no self control 😔

Day 9 of #20Series20Days #Top20Series

I love Margaret Atwood. I also love a good sci-fi/dystopian/post-apocalyptic story. The MaddAddam trilogy combines all of those things, is well-written and heartbreaking. LOVE

This was a read out of my comfort zone as I wasn‘t particularly attracted to dystopian fiction but I was so amazed by the first book I couldn‘t wait to finish the trilogy. #augustauthors

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#AugustAuthors day 8 #MargaretAtwood

I like her. And just now realizing I have 2 copies of Oryx & Crake 😂

With @OriginalCyn620 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#99ponkindle

In case you can't tell, I like this book.

🐖🦝☃️

Thanks for the tag @jenniferw88
In no particular order...
1. Oryx and Crake
2. A Prayer for Owen Meaney
3. To Kill a Mockingbird

What about your top 3 @RachelO ?
#favs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A book by Margaret Atwood? Yes, please. A dystopian book? Yes, please.
But..this book is 🥱🤔🤪
I'm struggling. I'm now forcing myself read 10% of this each day before I can read or watch anything else.
Must. Get. To. The. End.
Maybe it gets better? I'm over 50% right now and only slightly less confused than I was before.

#7Books7Days I'm including the entire Madaddam Trilogy. Floored me. Brought me back to reading science fiction and dystopian fiction after a long hiatus. And so spot on, so prescient. Gave me many disturbing dreams. But not as disturbing as listening to NPR while making morning coffee and hearing: “Today scientists perfected growing human livers in pigs.“ NO! NO! Not Pigoons!!!