So, when my husband and I watch a movie that seems to have had no point – spoiler alert, they’re almost always French – we turn to one another and have some variation of the same conversation. “Well, that was a movie.” ”yep.” ”it was movie length, and pictures moved across the screen.” ”mhmmm.” I love Margaret Atwood (the octothorplet was nearly named Atwood), and this book was neither good nor bad, it was a book. It was book length, and words were printed on […]
A deeply enjoyable and complex tale by Margaret Atwood
What did I say when I was working my way through the Atwood canon? Cat’s Eye was one of the other few Atwoods I hadn’t read in my local library, until I realized that book club and my bookshelf books were calling. I’ll probably get to more Atwood in 2018 once I’ve finished reading the books I actually own. I have to confess, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Cat’s Eye as much as I absolutely did, but what else are you going to do when […]
Not quite a key party, but close.
One of my projects this year was to make a dent in the Atwood canon, and I seem to have done so in the latter half of 2017. I had heard very little about Life Before Man, but I thought it would be intriguing to see some of her earlier work, since I had never read any books published prior to The Handmaid’s Tale. You can see her sly humor and nascent feminism here, even if there are some heavily domestic tropes in the novel. […]
A reliable/unreliable narrative
One of my 2017-2018 goals, besides reading all the books on my shelf (a project that is rapidly winding down, thank goodness!), is to read all of Margaret Atwood’s books. She’s so prolific that it’s an act easier said than done, but with my book club pick coming up, I decided to use it wisely on a book I’d never read. And that’s the story of how I ended up reading Alias Grace. Also, the arrival of the Netflix show has me intrigued (also, WHEN […]