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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.

πŸ“š The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Oryx and Crake, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
✍️ George Orwell
πŸ“Ί Orphan Black πŸ“½οΈ Oldboy (Korean), O' Brother Where Art Thou
🎀 Ozzy Osbourne, OK Go
🎢 O Helga Natt (Jussi Bjârling), Oh Darling! (Sahara Hotnights), Ode To My Family (The Cranberries)

#ManicMonday (on a Tuesday again) #LetterO
@CBee

#alphabetgame #letterO

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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

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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

β€œSo 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 πŸ“š 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. πŸ˜ΉπŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

#Top20Series #20Series20Days @Andrew65

Day 17: The MaddAddam Trilogy
There is so much about this to love for me. I‘m a fan of dystopian and post-apocalyptic as well as stories that go back and forth in time. I enjoyed the experience of having books 1 and 2 cover the same time period in the universe but from the perspective of 2 totally different characters in entirely different situations. And, of course, I love how Atwood writes.

#20Serie20Days Day 8

My favourite series by one of my favourite authors. Atwood‘s books are really scary because they are so believable.

Read good stuff about this trilogy here on Litsy recently and picked this up todayβœ¨πŸƒ 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 πŸ˜”

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 πŸ˜‚

With @OriginalCyn620 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ManicMonday #LetterO @joscho

πŸ“– Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)

πŸ’» Nnedi Okorafor

🎬 One Crazy Summer

🎀 Orbital

🎼 Out of the Body Experience (Rabbit in the Moon)

#99ponkindle

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

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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 πŸ₯±πŸ€”πŸ€ͺ
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: β€œToday scientists perfected growing human livers in pigs.β€œ NO! NO! Not Pigoons!!!

This has been on all sorts of "books to read while social distancing" lists. I bought it shortly before all of this started, so I figured I should go ahead and read it now.
It's an interesting read. A bit of nightmare fuel for the current times, and not just because of the pandemic. It's the story of a dystopia turning into the apocalypse.
I'm glad it's a series. This book left me with a lot of questions. I need to get the other two books. Pronto.

Some pandemic days are worse than others and I'm feeling it today. Thank God for the wonder that is Margaret Atwood and article that manages to be realistic, hopeful, reassuring, relatable and funny all at the same time. Thank you, Margaret https://tgam.ca/39RmcnY

It was so beautiful outside today so I did some #audiogardening and started some seeds as well.

Margaret Atwood‘s Oryx and Crake is book 1 of the MaddAddam trilogy. It‘s a dystopian novel and was certainly creepy when I first read it 6 years ago but SUPER creepy right now with COVID-19. If you‘re looking for an excellent apocalyptic series I highly recommend this one. 5⭐️s

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Hopping on with #isolationinteractions Day two: Post a quote from page 14. My current read is the tagged book and page 14 is a blank πŸ˜‚ So here is a pic of the blank page and the beautiful bookmark that I'm using, that @MaleficentBookDragon sent me last summer.
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@TheKidUpstairs

#audiostitching ❀️

Re-reading Atwood‘s MadAdam trilogy on Audible. Narration is great.

Whole series on sale at Audible. $5.95 each. Highly recommend

I felt this story was really weird and different look into a world in which a virus has killed the people. You have the before and the after story. I will probably not continue with this story because I felt a little confused at times and had to reread certain parts.

Every single book I have read by Margaret Atwood has been incredible and also wildly different. Her range is amazing. I really had no idea what this book was about before I started reading it and I definitely did not expect a dystopian novel. I‘ve been avoiding dyspotias lately because the real world feels enough like one as it is, but this was a great read!

#widehorizonsreadathon

Okay, I set a Goal. Since I have finished three books in the last week, I will plan to finish two more (that I have started), and a third (from scratch).
Reading to Finish: Oryx & Crake.
Reading to Finish: The Power of a Praying Parent.
Starting to Finish: Treasure Island.

I also plan to maintain my beloved #potteraday @Eggbeater

Thank you so much for the fantastic Valentine's gift Misty! πŸ’• I haven't read this yet, but I love Margaret Atwood so I'm sure it will be great!
I feel bad that I'm so behind on Litsy Love correspondence, but I am working on some homemade Valentines and hope to have them out soon! 😘
#LitsyLove

I finally got all my books in for this semester. I‘m excited to tackle the #bookstack πŸ“š #schoolbooks

Also reading this one!