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No secret that I felt compelled to re-read this book before The Testaments comes out next week. I'm so glad I did because my memory was very hazy. I completely forgot the epilogue. I completely forgot that it ended on an ambiguous note. I completely forget how dang great this book is, and now I can also see how clever. The only negative at this point is how can a sequel possibly compare. Well, we are talking about Margaret Atwood so I have hope.
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I can't believe that it took me this long to read The Handmaid's Tale, but there's nothing like an impending adaptation to force my hand. (Although, when I was a kid, I added my mom's copy to my TBR stack because I thought that it was about the Middle Ages. Little Ann would have been so surprised! Thankfully, it started with H so I never got anywhere near reading it.) I don't really have anything better to add to the discussion of how terrifying this book is, and how few steps it would take to f
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Women walk down the street in pairs, their vision and faces obscured by white wings, otherwise dressed from head to toe in red, speaking only to each other, and little more than idle greetings at that. They enter a store identified only by a picture on a sign, pay for their items with a token depicting exactly what it is then intend to purchase. They return home, passing through heavily guarded checkpoints where they must present identification. Once at their homes, they must face the jealousy,
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Jun 08, 2008
Sabrina
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Marek
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Lexy Harper
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Kathy Jo
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