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Margaret Atwood is a master story teller. I have read several of her books and they differ in style and content, but are all compelling. This is the book chosen for May/June by Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club on Goodreads. The range of books that we have read since the inception of this book club is wonderful and I have read every book and enjoyed them all. The Handmaid's Tale is a chilling look at single minded zeal and totalitarianism and crippling discrimination against women. Let us
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Even in today's political environment I found the story of how this dystopia became established a bit unconvincing. Still, this is a disturbing dystopian novel, showing how easily groups of seemingly empowered people can be so totally enslaved and dehumanized when the wrong people gain unchecked power. I can see why this story has been in the public interest more over the past few years, and it certainly offers an interesting Christian version of what states run by religious extremists are like
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One of my all time favorites -- I read it in 1985 and really wanted to read it again. It's a story of a young woman recruited for reproductive purposes at a time of plummeting birth rates. I just finished listening to it on a Library CD, where the narration was directed by BBC Radio and is a documentary style recording narrated by a full 4-member cast; it's really something else. The narrative switches between her memory of the old world where she was a working mother and then of her life as a s
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"There is more than one kind of freedom said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and Freedom From. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from." (pg 24). The days of anarchy refers to the United States when women were free to make choices such as pursuing careers, managing a bank account, reproductive rights, and marriage decisions. Then the President is assassinated, Congress is gunned down, and the Constitution is suspended. No one objects. Everything is going to be ok.
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