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The Handmaid’s Tale
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Start date
November 1, 2015
Finish date
November 30, 2015
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Anna
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Our topic for November: Canada! So we invite all of you to read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood wi…more

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Sarah
Nov 01, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Margaret Atwood manages to sayat the same time just and not enough.
this book honestly made me paranoid.
I loved it and I am definitely going to pick up some of her other works.
Theresa
This took me a super long time to finish but it was well worth it! Admittedly, the first half of the book was very hard to get through - at least for me. I stopped reading after a good 150 pages and only picked it up again last week. But boy am I glad I did!

It is a very heavy read and I got very frustrated with the narrator and her passivity during most of the events. Nonetheless, I was able to emphasize heavily and thoroughly enjoyed the poetic language used throughout a book dealing with such
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Anna
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Jul 23, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Anna
Nov 06, 2015 rated it it was amazing