This was so interesting and great! I heard about it a few years ago, and accidently picked up 'a handmaid's tale' which is completely different.

I love that this smart educated woman recorded her life's work in a very concise and scientific journal. I like to learn that people in the early 1800's thought and lived in ways similar to us today. I hated that this smart woman got old and spent her declining years complaining about her life, her husband, her son, and hating her daughter in law. ARE WE ALL CONDEMNED TO BECOME ORNERY OLD PEOPLE??!