Sexual fantasies and affairs taking place in a futuristic dystopian America? Atwood you saucy little minx! Marital problems aren’t uncommon, but adding in the dystopian prison certainly adds some flavor.A lot of story packed into a small package, I was drawn in completely and had a hard time putt...
The story of Stan and Charmaine continues, this installment was definitely a lot more exciting than the first. While the first half of the novel had me wondering in what direction the series was going, boy did it pick up and take an unexpected turn. I was left in shock and I couldn't put it down ...
Atwood's first short story in the Positron series blew me away. Unfortunately, whilst this episode was still enjoyable it just seemed like a filler or stop gap to the next step. It didn't leave you on tenterhooks like the last two. This may be because the main focus of this episode, Charmaine, di...
I think most of the reviewers here have missed Atwood’s point, instead believing the message of the story to be something else. This is not a story, more just an exercise to take down literature’s convention of happy endings. But this convention exists only in Atwood’s head, as many good books ...
I guess Atwood doesn't believe in quotation marks.. I don't think I've ever come across a novel yet in which there is no distinction between the narrator and the character. It took me quite a while to get used to that type of style of writing. I had to go back and re-read sentences again and agai...
This is really more like 3.5 stars for me, but I suppose it does belong a notch above my other 3 star ratings, so it will have to be a 4. After reading and loving The Stone Angel, I decided to try and read all of the Manawaka series of books and, although The Diviners is the last in the series, i...
Best (or critically important to the text) Quotes:"They always want to kill the leaders. With the best of intentions, or so they claim. The leaders have the best of intentions as well. The leaders stand in the spotlight, the killers aim from the dark; it’s easy to score.""Once, this might have be...
I’m not the first to say that, even though I could hardly remember the episode of the twelve maids’ hanging in Penelope’s myth, after reading Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad I will never forget it again. As you probably know, this novella was written as part of an ambitious and interesting project c...
Lots of VERY short but thought-provoking pieces. They are varied, though many involve common Atwood themes (relationships, environmental catastrophe, heaven and hell, women). Some are quite poetic and a few are actual poems; there is an allegorical riddle, or perhaps it's a riddling allegory. The...
maybe 3.5 stars. i feel like atwood's short stories are generally stronger than her prose, which sometimes rambles and baffles. she can already say so much in 10 pages. some of the short fiction is banal though; starting to believe it's a trend that i like only 30% of her compilations, so natural...
Everybody in this novel has a motive for killing Zenia – and that is the point, or at least, one of the points. Zenia is a dark, malevolent force – one of those people we desire in the dark, middle of the forest nightmare spaces in the black pits of our souls. She is the one who knows our secre...
Margaret Atwood has written a lot of books, and for me they fall into one of two camps: either I've read it, or I know nothing about it. Cat's Eye was one novel I only learnt about a few years ago. First I came across a quoted passage from it in another book - I want to say it was Queen Bees & ...
Margaret Atwood has resisted applying the “science fiction” label to those novels of hers taking place in dystopian futures, preferring instead the term “speculative fiction.” So I wonder what she would think of the way GoodReads classifies Oryx and Crake because as soon as I indicated I was don...
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood's ninth novel is a work of historical fiction, although based on a true historical event - the story of Grace Marks, a Canadian housemaid who was convicted of murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear, and suspected of murdering his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery on July 2...
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tI don’t trust the light in this book. I don’t trust the personnel on the switches. I think that most of them came straight from a based-on-a-book-by-Nicholas-Sparks movie set. One of the most insightful comments I ever heard about that particular saccharine mini industry was about how the major...
I'll start off by admitting that I'm a great fan of Atwood's writing but absolutely cannot stand her as a person. This being her earlier work I expected to run into some of the vitriolic, man-hating feminism of hers that I can't tolerate. However, I only came to heads with her a couple of times. ...
If I start a new author and I suspect I'm really going to like them, like REALLY planning to dig all the way into their bibliography, I tend to go out of my way to begin with the debut, rather than, say, with their "best" work. It's not a hard and fast rule, but it's interesting to me to see wher...
Non-Fiction. The Franklin Expedition left England in 1845, made a stop in Greenland, met up with some whalers by an iceberg, and then disappeared into the Canadian Arctic forever, leaving behind two message cylinders, hundreds of tin cans, and three marked graves.I recently read Dan Simmons' The ...
Although this book of short stories is brief, it is very dense and is not a quick read. In fact, most (if not all) of the stories beg for a re-read in order to catch Atwood’s subtleties. As a whole, the pieces have a strong feminist theme threaded throughout, with a gifted writer’s sense of humor...
You attempt merely poweryou accomplish merely suffering - pg. 32The collection is divided into four sections. Each section begins with a short poem, reminiscent of the way some books are interspersed with quotations or blurbs at the beginning of chapters or what have you.The first part begins...y...
The children on the lawnjoined hand to handgo round and roundeach arm going intothe next arm, aroundfull circleuntil it comesback into each of the singlebodies againThey are singing, butnot to each other:their feet movealmost in time to the singingWe can seethe concentration ontheir faces, their ...
About 25% of this 80 page book is worth reading; the other 75 is pretty bad. I'll start with what worked.She has a piece, the longest in the book, about a trip to Mexico. It's not perfect by any means, but it really does live up to the premise of the book: thoughtful, full of striking imagery, su...