(Photo:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160728.Bodily_Harm) There’s a blurb on the back of my copy from Marilyn French, a more or less contemporary of Margaret Atwood’s, who says of this book “Romance and adventure by a female Graham Greene at his peak” and at first I thought it was dismissive in a strange way, but then I started reading, and thought — well, I’ll be damned. So it does share a lot of similarities with Graham Greene in a few key ways, or more with a certain set of Graham […]
Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again
So I bought a house. Moved my mother in with us in her own apartment. Sold her place. Renovated our old one to ready it for rental. Got half new staff at work. Raising the tiny one. It’s been a bit since I’ve posted, but life has been hectic. Nothing like a nice relaxing read to soothe my jangled nerves, so of course I pick The Handmaid’s Tale to read (and make my coworker book club cohorts read for our first selection.) I’m a masochist. […]
The play’s the thing
CBR10Bingo: This Old Thing (The Tempest) and Birthday (Hag-Seed) I’m a big fan of Margaret Atwood’s novels. I haven’t read everything she’s written, but I have a shelf full of her books and have loved all but one (sorry, The Heart Goes Last). I always watch for her new releases, and she’s one of the rare exceptions I’ll make to buy hardcover. When Hag-Seed came out a few years ago, I was all excited and ready to buy, until I looked at the cover blurb […]
The power of Margaret Atwood compels you!
I liked this a lot, even if the central message can be boiled down to “power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely,” and that’s as provocative a statement as “water is wet.” A frame tale where academics use historical documents to reconstruct a past much like our present as gender imbalance creates a crisis point and reveal their own biases in the interpretation is gonna get compared to Margaret Atwood for obvious reasons. To say this is not The Handmaid’s Tale is no slight to Alderman; […]