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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Start date: June 1, 2012

Finish date: August 31, 2012

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Dec 08, 2010 Chinook rated it it was amazing

Shelves: feminism, america, 1001, read-at-school, america-understanding

I read this back in high school and it was my favourite required read by far. I recall doing a project on the language used: the scrabble choices, the titles, phrases the protagonist talks about.

This reread just confirmed how damn good the book is. I love that ending as well - university of Nunavut! That wouldn't have hit me on my high school reading. I wish there was so much more of this, like the Maddadam trilogy with its different perspectives, because it was hard to leave that fascinating a ...more

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Nov 23, 2010 Tobey rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: tbd, re-read, 2010, library, 2022

Welcome to Gilead indeed!

This was a re-read for me. I read it in 2010 the first time and I don't re-read books very often but I felt this one was needed. It's very relevant these days.

This book was written in 1986 and wow, is it ahead of its time! I cannot believe some of this story and I admit to not remembering a lot of it from my first read. I think I enjoyed it a lot more this time and to say one can enjoy this story is very interesting in today's world. and all the more interesting is that ...more

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