I started this book when on holiday and I needed some time to start being interested. It talks about the future I would not like to live in ... I will see how it ends.
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The Heart Goes Last: A Novel | 
I started this book when on holiday and I needed some time to start being interested. It talks about the future I would not like to live in ... I will see how it ends.
Project TBR 2020: the lowest rated books on my Goodreads want-to-read 😬are these really that bad?
pickA truly bizarre book, I can honestly say I didn‘t predict any of the plot turns. I still don‘t know how I feel about the ending but I can definitely say it was a huge surprise. The ending was just... very unexpected and I may genuinely have nightmares about it. Not perfect but then I don‘t really like dystopian novels, and I think I enjoyed this about as much as I could enjoy one.
#tbrread #wintergames #merryreaders @Clwojick @StayCurious
pickMy 3rd audio book ( and #67 in total) this year and absolutely crazy town! It‘s set in a dystopian future where an economic collapse has further separated the have and have not classes. Enterprising individuals create jobs and living accommodations for those down on their luck. Then it goes bat shit crazy with sex robots and face transplants and baby blood infusions. What the hell Margaret! What a ride of a novel
The shame. Thank goodness for audio cleaning/purging/organizing
In that first floor bay, of this charming little bookshop (and home of Propolis imprint) - legend has it Margaret Atwood sat and finished the tagged book. It‘s now the fiction section of the shop - so I went in and soaked up the vibes!
pickSo this was my first Atwood book and I can‘t believe I hadn‘t read any of her books. To be honest I alway thought she wrote scary stuff like Steven king I‘m a wimp. So I was told this is a must read and not scary. Well they were right and I love her books now. I think this was a fantastic one to get started on.
pickThis book is a wild ride! A couple looses everything when the economy tanks badly, and they are living in their car. They hear about a community that is self sufficient, where residents take turns, a month at a time, living in a jail and serving the community, then enjoying a month in the community, like a suburban dream. Then things get crazy.
I loved all the bizarre twists, the mind control and manipulation. Definitely 👍👍.
#AuthorAMonth
pickI can not get enough of Margaret Atwood ❤️
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pickAs expected I enjoyed this Atwood audiobook! I was gonna read the hard copy but I‘m glad I went with the audio. I enjoyed that the way it switched from the male reader to the female reader. I enjoyed the way Atwood showed two sides of the story with through the differing perspectives of Stan and Charmaine. This book is dark, kinky, intriguing. A great story with great characters!
The library at the college I work at is getting rid of most of their fiction collection 😟, so we were all free to take any books we wanted 🙂. I was tempted to just pull my car up to the door and open my trunk...but I limited myself to what I could fit in a small box. #24in48 #hour12 #bookshelfie
panThis book had so much potential but fell short. The characters were shallow and all the sex just didn‘t fit into the story. Big disappointment.
Starting this today. Trying to add a quick read before I start ToG! Anyone ever read this. What did you think? My mom passed his on on to me.
Had no idea what this was about when I downloaded it. You‘d think I might have guessed it‘d be dystopian, given the author. Interesting idea; not sure how I feel about it, though.
A rainy evening with Margaret Atwood. I'm not complaining. 🌧
so-soUn grande NI.
Originale, ben scritto, piuttosto scorrevole,...eppure dispersivo nelle tematiche.
Dopo metà libro in particolar modo la storia amplia i temi trattati, mettendo "troppa carne al fuoco".
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Ho chiuso questo romanzo poco fa e non so come giudicarlo 🤔
Probabilmente mi ero fatta troppi pregiudizi, immaginando una storia....diversa.
Non è un brutto libro, però mette insieme tantissimi argomenti che confondono un poco il lettore, sopratutto dopo metà romanzo, quando tutto inizia a prendere vita cambiando rotta. Forse troppi argomenti spinosi su cui riflettere, ma sempre al centro di tutto la libertà individuale.
Two from Margaret Atwood that feature #jail prominently in the plot. #readingresolutions @Jess7
#JB mail in this week and some cards ready to go out. Replies to these will be written soon! Thank you @Theshadedbuffalo @JoScho @CoffeeNBooks and thank you @CareBear for the book!! It‘s going to the top of the stack!
pickThis was intriguing and made me want to read more of her books. Original story and darkly funny. The ending was odd though.
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My TBR Margaret Atwood that features a #bookheart. It has not received great reviews. What did you think? (The Sky is Everywhere thrown in for good measure 😆) Have a great weekend!
I was only there for 1 night, but I really enjoyed my first time at #HayFestival. I got to see Margaret Atwood in conversation and it was wonderful.
In a month where two package sent to me have gone missing (presumed stolen) this amazing package was an even sweeter surprise. Thank you so much @Foragingfantasy for such a delightful box filled with treasures. You are such a wonderful friend. I love it all.
about halfway through this and LOVING it so far!
(photo: NPR)
The Heart Goes Last. The coffee comes first
My girlfriend and I keep looking at each other and saying, "What did that make him? A chicken pimp" and falling off the bed laughing.
"What did that make him? A chicken pimp."
The line where I bailed. It is appalling that Margie Atwood was willing to WRITE *THAT* SENTENCE before she was willing to address the actual problems with the prison system. Which are the central premise of the book. And which are not even remotely to do with "hurrr, there's criminals in there!" Margie's fucking dead to me. She hasn't learned a damn thing. She can eat shit.
bailedI was sold a "novel of ideas" about capitalism, technocracy, authoritarianism, and the prison-industrial complex, with a romantic subplot. What I got after the setup chapters was a boring, purple, hetero softcore pornomance, with facile "the 50s were SO boring for white people" handwringing and classist, racist, ableist grandstanding (on the text's part) about inmates under the current system. I cut my losses. So much for incisive social analysis.
I started listening to this tonight. It's got me looking forward to driving to campus tomorrow. ^_^
pickFinished this one yesterday. As always I liked reading this Atwood. I enjoyed the writing. And, as always, the story was a bit 'strange' (in a good way).
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#catsoflitsy
#morbidelli
pickA fast paced, tongue in cheek dystopian and thoroughly comedic easy read. Showcases human failings. A must for misanthropic beings. Even without social networking where sharing minutiae further fuels vanity, we are all still destined for hell and the destruction of planet earth.
Stan and Charmaine, a pair of losers.
#theheartgoeslast
#margaretatwood
#MarchIntoOz #ChemicalHeart I read this last summer & it was a good easy read. Not my favorite Atwood though. Dystopian tale.
My Library is on point at the moment and I'm super excited to start my 2nd ever Margaret Atwood novel as soon as I finish Hex 👌
#bookhaul #library #librarybook #librarybooks #margaretatwood #handmaidstale #experiment #socialexperiment #dystopian ? #hardback #femaleauthor #beautifulcover #TBR
pickHmmmm...I'm not sure what to say about this one.
Its a dystopian type novel with a kind of black humor twist.
Newly married, Stan and Charmaine think they are being given the perfect solution to their problems! A way out of their sadly destitute situation. Things are not what they seem, and they are actually being used for unfathomable reasons.
"You want your decisions taken away from you so you won‘t be responsible for your own actions?"
pickDisclaimer - Listened to the audiobook. This was an interesting plot with just enough twists to make it interesting. There were times the details or sidetrack thoughts were distracting but overall, a good read. Oddly, the plot is only slightly unbelievable - the world isn‘t far from his sort of scheme.
So excited that my #cupidgoespostal package arrived from Polska! I‘m spoiled beyond belief: several books from my TBR, bookmarks, pencils, sweet treats, & a book bag from Krakow‘s English bookstore. Dziekuje bardzo @CaroPi !!!
Hearts for #riotgrams ❤️
Literally the only books I have with #hearts. I don't typically read romance, so it limits my options a bit.
#Riotgrams
Not a very romantic choice for Valentine‘s Day, but it fulfills the requirement for a heart #hearts #riotgrams
I just finished reading this about a week ago, and it was so good. More for the people who are not faint hearted. It‘s a different sort of dystopian setting than her older books, but it‘s the best book I‘ve read in a loooooong time.
so-soI really like Margaret Atwood, but this book was a little over the top strange and confusing. It was an interesting concept, but i got bored a lot and had a hard time finding the point of the book.
pickIn true Atwood fashion here's our dystopian future, but imagine what this looks like when society is obsessed with sex.... Sexbots, brainwashed love slaves, and the like.
Book haul!! Received my giveaway package from @dariazeoli and textbooks for the upcoming semester as well as a Margaret Atwood book to round it out! Not pictured: #MugLove stuff and #mybloodyvalentine stuff for my matches! 😁❤️❤️ hubby was like, ummm, there's like 10 packages here for you today, wth did you buy?!
