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This is the 3rd time I have read this book and each time a different memory of the book stays with me. The 1st time, it was the horror of the breeding ceremony. I was a teenager at the time. The 2nd time, I convinced myself of a ending/storyline that isn‘t in the book. Now this 3rd time; I‘m reading it as one of the banned books on this season of Book Interrupted and realizing how scary the potential of something like this actually happening is.

Phenomenal! Amazing how Margaret Atwood created a dystopian novel like this. Such a creative mind! And to think the book was published in the 80s. Her views of the future is still appropriate even today.

handmaid‘s tale for me especially when i reread it 5yrs ago…scary world… #sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

With the different debates and decision concerning women‘s body/rights to abortion.This book gives us a glimpse of the futur. I‘m still trying to finish the tv series.

Thoughts: TERRIFYING. I am not a huge fan of dystopian novels for that one word: terrifying. As someone who prefers film noir about stories in the past, seeing what the future might hold is frightening. Atwood has a way of making me care, and Offred was stunningly portrayed as the complex character she is: she goes along with society but shuns it inwardly. A must read in today's crazy world.

Turkeys to color in for November? Yes, please!!
Tagged book is my #bookspin and my #doublespin is The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

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Good book club discussion on this book

#coffeeandabook

One of the best books I've read under the category 'feminist literature'. So glad I read the book before watching the movie

#manicmonday #LetterH @CBee

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My daughter gave it to me and insisted I read. She‘s in school for a Sociology Degree. I definitely felt like I could sit in a sociology class and have long discussions about this and possible outcomes. It also reminded me of where some people may develop global theories such as those that uprised during the pandemic. Descriptive and unique writing, distinctive imagery and very thought provoking. Curious now how the show is and how it concludes

Off to the ballet. #PraiseBe 📖🩰

Finished my first #trappedonanisland book. I wish I could say I loved it, but that would be a lie. I think the issue is that this doesn't make for a good audiobook. I have this marked to actually go back and read the book. I do this sometimes with certain books. Sometimes the narrative lacks dialogue and I lose interest.

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Many would be familiar with the novel, and for those who haven‘t read the original text, (ahem, like me) would also have some passing knowledge of it, especially after the much publicised Hulu adaptation. I thought this graphic novel take by Renée Nault is a nice cheat for me to tick off my TBR list. The artwork cleverly uses colours and visual symbols to give an unsettling feeling. I could follow the story, so ⬇️

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Fooled you bookstore! 😆
I read them all but one and the top left one I can't identity.

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Sorry, not feeling too celebratory towards independence this year #usindependenceday #julyjam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

The perfect time to read this one.
Brutal and poetic.

This book sat on my chest and clouded my days. I had a hard time leaving the world Ms. Atwood created once I put the book down. Everyone should read this haunted and depressing book. Mayday

Damn, I really picked the wrong time to read this graphic novel. It hits especially hard this week. 💔🤬 But, I am really curious to see how the graphic novel holds up to the book.

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This book doesn‘t require any introduction, nuff said…

“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.” -Atwood. The ominous tone of this story of women valued only for their fertility is frighteningly appropriate! Anyone who can get pregnant in America lost today. People of color and poor folks will of course pay the highest price. Rape survivors will be re-victimized when forced to carry their rapist‘s child. Women will die. Welcome to America. #firstlinefridays #reproductivehealthcare

This is hysterically funny only because it's so sad. Watch Margaret Atwood take a flamethrower to an unburnable copy of her novel.

Video: https://youtu.be/zpsMsAMY4eM
Article: https://boingboing.net/2022/05/25/watch-margaret-atwood-take-a-flamethrower-to-a...

This is clever. Plus MA with a flamethrower? Yes 👍

What a contradiction; Women are protected. Women are vessels. Women are safe. Women are for breeding… I found myself thinking back and forth from sounds alright to sounds restricting. Kinda see todays relevance; govt. controlling women‘s bodies. Even with the odd writing, it was near impossible to put down. Offred‘s story hurt most when she reminisced the before yet stayed the Handmaid. So indoctrinated herself. Incredible it was published 1985

Had to dig this book up because of where the US appears to be headed. It‘s startling to think this book was written on 1985 for a period in 2005. The book feels likes it‘s own contradiction; women are more protected, yet their only viable to the world as long as they can make babies. Still feeling it out, but very gripping either way

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This was a must read given what is going on in the US. Amazing! Frighteningly real. #book67of2022

Amazon bestsellers in the category Censorship today.Gee, I wonder what‘s on a lot of peoples minds?

https://www.insider.com/margaret-atwood-anti-abortion-slavery-2017-6

I saw it coming, but still...WTF
I've said it before...elections have consequences.

Reading this for book club. 1/5 way through. Told in 1st person by a character after some upheaval in recent history which has reassigned everyone's roles and women are dressed accordingly - but haven't discovered what yet. Her flashbacks to her previous life seem muddled.
I wouldn't want to be in her position but she seems to bear it; still not quite sure how she fits into the society.

A stunning piece of speculative fiction, the familiarity of the society within the novel is unnerving when paired with the shocking actions and ideologies the people within Gilead had grown accustomed to.

I finished this book on Thursday, but forgot to post a review, and the internet was down yesterday so I could post it then either. Either way, I enjoyed this book a lot. I mean it. I unfortunately didn‘t have the second book with me, and so I read (and finished) another book, but now I have the second book! I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars.

Just one more thing:
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Interesting read

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.

Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

It took me a while to read this because it was so intense and dark, I had to take several breaks from it. I‘m glad I read it, though. It‘s brilliantly written; Margaret Atwood draws the reader in from page one. This book made me wonder if something like this could really happen. It isn‘t so far fetched. Don‘t read this at a time when you‘re stressed, anxious, angry, or feeling sad; this is not a relaxing or uplifting story. Highly recommended.