Surfacing | 
“I have to be more careful about my memories. I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone. I run quickly over my version of it, my life, checking it like an alibi; it fits...“
I've had barely any reading time this month with insane work deadlines, but the TBR continues to grow...Hoping to dive into at least one of these this weekend.
pickI wouldn't say this is a favourite of mine. I think mostly because I didn't particularly engage with the characters.
However, the nature writing/scene setting is beautiful. The rural coming-of -age back story is moving and captures the post-war era perfectly.
pickFinished earlier today! Margaret Atwood is my fave author, and this one did not disappoint! It was so psychologically complex and tense. It was well-written; each line was so eloquent. The book was thought-provoking and will remain with me. I can do much psychoanalysis of it. Such an accurate, intense portrayal of mental illness and overall psychological deterioration. Looking forward to the next Atwood book I get from the library!
so-so3/22 I used #booked2022 as the push I needed to finally read an Atwood but I‘m sad to say this book won‘t push me to pick up another. Although some of the writing is truly masterful, so much so that towards the beginning I almost forgot it wasn‘t a memoir a couple of times, I didn‘t enjoy it and I didn‘t enjoy spending time with the characters. I could see where I was meant to go but I didn‘t enjoy the journey #ecofeministnovel
Audiocooking the Sunday roast today. I‘m about half of the way through this book now. Parts of it remind me of A-level Kantian ethics, parts of it have me a little intrigued, but at the moment a lot of it is leaving me cold. I think I expected something different . #Booked2022 #ecofemenistnovel
I‘ll be honest, I had to Google eco-feminist novels for my #Booked2022 prompt. This came up and as I have never read Atwood this seemed like a good time to start.
Paddling pool not deep enough for #floating with a baby around but I‘ll have a little splash! Read tagged book this month, enjoyed the first 2/3 but wasn‘t sure about the ending. #jamminjune
Woohoo 🎉 Special SURPRISE #BookMail 💕📚📬from the incredibly lovely @jenniferw88 AKA #TheChaseSuperFan
Thanks so much, Jenny ❤️So excited for the Atwood and the chocolate looks delicious 😋 I appreciate your thinking of me❣️
These are the books I'm thinking of for #LMPBC, I'll tag the rest in the comments. Let me know if you've read any of them!
@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @Tianarose @ShelleyBooksie
@CindyRene @AnneFindsJoy @mrsmarch
These four are under 400 pages and on my TBR. Which one would y‘all be interested in? There‘s some diversity here.
1. I think I may have been too young when I read this. I was in high school. It got chucked across my bedroom. I gave it to my Senior English teacher.
2. A mixture
3. In college during a women‘s studies class. The Prof asked what are some things that are inherited but not genetic. I proudly shouted Type II diabetes! ( she meant things like politics and preferences) 🤦🏽♀️
4. Rain and grass
5. Pale Blue Golden State
#friyayintro
A line from Atwood every Canadian knows.
#50wordsforsnow #winterwonderland @trishb @cinfhen
Love an interesting inscription #secondhand #garagesalefind
I started rearranging my books today, slowly, first by: fiction, author‘s last name starts with A. Here‘s Abbey through Atwood done! My problem is the constraints of home bookshelves, and the mix of hard backs and paperbacks. How do you shelve your books? Separate paperbacks from hardbacks and then alphabetize? I only want to do this once. 😂
I‘d love to hear how you do it, and see a pic of your shelves! Use #littenlibraries & tag me.
pickWow. Was that a crazy trip or what!?! Lots of great quotes, ambiguous ending, and questions that will keep ringing in my head...#teaandscones #cuppa #teabreak
pickI love Atwood and I love settings that take over your mind and body. I will say this book isn‘t for everyone for a lot of reasons, but I was in need of a quick literary read. #surfacing
#RiotGrams Day 22: This seems apt for #BookThatShouldBeAdapted seeing how practically all of Atwood‘s novels have been so spectacularly well done from The Handmaid‘s Tale to Alias Grace.
Figure skating, a bulldog, and Margaret Atwood. An unlikely combination. #dogsoflitsy
My international entry for #januaryjoy
I often recommend Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Her other books may be more popular, but this is one of my favorites. It‘s a short book set in the Quebec outdoors.
pickThis story is under my skin. I️ love Atwood‘s writing.
Atmospheric. I went to the wilderness part of Canada over the summer and it‘s captured perfectly in her writing.
panA woman and her friends go to look for the woman's missing father at his lake cabin in Canada. You get the feeling pretty quickly, that there are some deeper issues, but, unfortunately, I just weren't interested. The MC is just too distanced, and too #comfortablynumb regarding sexism. The writing felt pretentious and too "literary", although there were some beautiful sentences at times. All in all, it added up to a disappointment.
#Rocktober
About to cuddle up in bed with this one on this fine fall break day. What a beautiful cover.
This Atwood (still TBR) features a daughter going #IntotheWild of northern Quebec to find her missing father. It's one of the few Atwood novels that I haven't read, and I'm sure it won't disappoint.
#BeastsGiveawayChallenge @ruthemmielang
I'm a huge fan of Margaret Atwood but I haven't read this one yet #sophomorenovels #jubilantjuly
A few #sideprofiles for #jubilantjuly 🌞
Surfacing is the only one I haven't read, and the other two are due for a reread.
So. Many. New. Books! And apparantly, rather blue-themed 💙💙
#bookmail #blameitonlitsy
"When it happened the first time he must have been terrified, it would be like stepping through a usual door and finding yourself in a different galaxy, purple trees and red moons and a green sun."
#quotes
"I felt that would be the best way to live, in a floating house carrying everything you needed with you and some other people you liked; when you wanted to move somewhere it would be easy."
#quotes
"Water drops fall on the roof, down from the trees.
They follow me inside."
#quotes
This book has quite the #unreliable narrator, I had no idea what was true. #maybookflowers
This is my pick for #unreliablenarrators for #maybookflowers. The unnamed narrator is also the chief protagonist. We hear and see things from her point of view, including current events and memories of the past. It's a little confusing and totally unreliable. I hated this book and the narrator, but couldn't help admire Atwood's talent. Well worth a read.
Browsing the stacks in Idle Hours Bookshop in South Bend, Indiana. I left with a copy of Margaret Atwood's second novel.
Here's a couple #headlesscovers for the #photoadaynov16! And happy birthday to the amazingly talented Margaret Atwood!
so-soCan I just say that I am SO glad I read most of Atwoods newer works first, as if this was my first foray into her writing...well I probably wouldn't have stuck it out beyond this. It's by no means a terrible read, but when you compare it to The handmaids tale or The blind assassin, it doesn't fare particularly well! I believe this was written in the '70s, and she just improved on so many levels!
Starting this baby tonight! Unfortunately my last read - solar bones by Mike McCormack isn't on Litsy, but if you get a chance, BUY IT! But do NOT read the blurb, go into it blind. Beautiful experimental prose, set in Ireland during the recession. I cannot recommend it enough.
so-soI first read Surfacing in '94 part of a Post-War CanLit class. Trying to fill my 'Reread' square in #bookbingonw2016, I wanted to see if I love old Margaret Atwood as much as I love her current work.
One could say the novel is cryptic, but perhaps it's full of symbols waiting to be decoded. Narrative transitions into a dream world populated by the character's personal mythology. To further complicate things, Atwood eschews conventional grammar.
This, above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.
