pickLast night‘s scores from the book swap on the way home from ballet. I‘m getting stronger every week under Georgia‘s expert tuition. She makes me feel like my next exam is doable to my standards. This feeling is costly though $ Ha!
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Old Babes in the Wood: Stories | 
pickLast night‘s scores from the book swap on the way home from ballet. I‘m getting stronger every week under Georgia‘s expert tuition. She makes me feel like my next exam is doable to my standards. This feeling is costly though $ Ha!
pickThis was totally not what I expected. But the stories still got to me.
There was a lot about getting older and feminism.
My Evil Mother was especially amazing and The Wooden Box made me put me in the shoes of my grandma.
pickIt's possible I'm on an Atwood kick lately. To the point where my brain sort of expects all books to meet her level of awesome. Totally unrealistic but there you have it. Bar firmly set.
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
pickMy last #bookspin of the year, and what a way to go out! Atwood is amazing as always, and I see myself rereading these stories often. @TheAromaofBooks
pickMargaret Atwood is a treasure. I cherished going to the bookstore to pick up her latest, it‘s a gift to live in the same time as this brilliant woman. Atwood has a way of being equally grounded and ethereal. Her short stories offer comfort, hope, intrigue, and new ideas; especially about death and aging. She always leaves me in a state of pure awe. 5⭐️✨
“Now it's the first decade of the twenty-first century, space-time is denser, it's crowded, you can barely move because the air is so packed with this and that. You can't get away from people: they're in touch, they're touching, they're only a touch away. Is that better, or worse?“
#SundaySentence
pickMy latest Atwood read! The stories were so well-written! I loved how each story connected to each other in some way; I have never read another short story connection that maintains such well-rounded connections. There was a diverse mixture of emotions. “My Evil Mother” and the “interview” with a famous past author were my faves but no story was boring or irrelevant. Atwood remains an outstanding author that I always look forward to!
Today is a national holiday, my boyfriend is away to play a tournament and it‘s raining- so it‘s the perfect day to read🥰I really want to finish this one, I‘ve been reading it for quite some time now. It‘s not as gripping as I was hoping🙈
I've borrowed this from a friend who attended the Margaret Atwood talk with me.
I like the story telling, the characters whom she's using.
pickStories from the sage and witty viewpoint of a woman in her eighties: I‘m here for this. Some of these start out humorous and turn to pathos near the end; I would have to stop reading in order to weep and recover my equilibrium. These are the stories I liked best. Only one, The Dead Interview (a conversation between Atwood and the ghost of Orwell) didn‘t work for me. #CanadianAuthor #ShadowGiller2023
It‘s an optical illusion, the retreating figure dwindling, growing smaller and smaller and then disappearing in the distance. Those retreating stay the same size. They aren‘t really diminished, they aren‘t really gone. It‘s just that you can‘t see them.
My boyfriend took a photo of me reading today😅 best way to spend your weekend! The book so far is also good, even though the first stories felt a bit random
“Hurt, fiddlesticks! I wouldn‘t give them the satisfaction,” she‘d said with a lift of her chin. “They may not like me, but they respect me. Respect is better than like.”
I disagreed. I didn‘t care about being respected—that was a schoolteacher thing, like black lace-up shoes—but I very much wanted to be liked. My mother frequently said I‘d have to give up that frivolous desire if I was going to amount to anything.
My mother had a thing for blue tableware; she said it warded off any evil eyes intent on ruining the food.
—I did not make a very convincing Spaniard, needless to say, so my unauthorized presence in their worthy domain did not go unnoticed for long. Thus it was that I kept my rendezvous with the sardines.
—Ah, the evil sardines.
—The British rescued me from these malevolent fish. They traded me for a sack of flour.
—A sack of flour?
—Yes, a sack of flour. However, attention please! It was a very large sack!
“You see,” said François, “in the internment camp it was nothing but sardines. We boiled them, we fried them, we toasted them. We made tiny lamps with their oil. Everything stank of sardines, sardines, sardines morning and night! We ourselves, we could not get the smell of them off our skin. So, for me, sardines have ceased to be possible.” He gave a little shudder.
pickI‘m not a huge short story fan, but Atwood‘s writing and story crafting is so exceptional I can‘t resist.
pickFine collection of short stories by Atwood. Some are phenomenal, some are not, but all are creative. Some are odd, but work so well; some are odd and miss the mark for me. I love this genre, as it feels as if in this collection, Atwood writes a few stories for everyone.
Lovely interview with Margaret Atwood: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/11/margaret-atwood-it-would-be-fun-to...
“I can see Wife of Bath syndrome going on all around me in women my age who are thinking: 'I‘m not done yet, I‘ve had all this life experience and here‘s what I have to tell you.'“
(I haven't read Old Babes in the Wood yet but I'm on the library list.)
Here‘s a link to read one of the stories in this boo, from the Guardian; enjoy!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/25/widows-by-margaret-atwood-read-the...
I didn‘t know ,did you?. March, 7th,2023
pickThis book features stories like "My Evil Mother" and my personal favorite, "The Dead Interview", where Atwood "interviews" George Orwell via a spiritual medium. "Impatient Griselda" is a pandemic story featuring an octopus shaped alien telling a fairy tale to its human audience in a quarantine room. With this variety of stories, Atwood shows her ability to explore different genres with her incredibly engaging writing style.
Book mail today and what a surprise! The new Margaret Atwood collection!!!
