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The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Start date
May 1, 2017
Finish date
June 30, 2017
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Emma's May/June 2017 book pick.…more

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Lois
Jun 16, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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This story works wonderfully as an audiobook; it took me a while to get into it, but I was completely engrossed by the end. It is also an interesting take on feminist speculative fiction and dystopia. It raised many questions for me, more often about how things could so easily have been different to what was described than about Gilead itself—so, then, why did Atwood make the choices she did? This was the question that came to me again and again, and in doing so it made me think about many aspec ...more
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Jul 14, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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Jennifer Christine
May 06, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Oct 11, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Jan 26, 2018 rated it really liked it
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Aug 18, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Sep 28, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Paige
Jun 28, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 13, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Aug 07, 2018 rated it really liked it
Katie
Feb 02, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Jorja
Mar 27, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Apr 22, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Jun 24, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Chloe
Oct 19, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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