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Hmm Need to saw a little more here..FICTION TNBBC June BOM read Why? This book by famous talented author Margaret Atwood was a Final Jeopardy Question!! Clue was that it was written in '85 but reminiscent of Choissier
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A true work of genius. Beautiful writing, poetic, and utterly devastating. Sadly prophetic.
A book written back when feminist wasn't a dirty word. But it was Reagan times, so it was scary. My first Atwood book. She started out as a poet, and her language makes that very clear. This book is searing in its indirect indictment of conservative religious freaks. It's an alternative time, and...well, conservative religious freaks have taken over America. Young women like the narrator are basically being used like breeding mares in a travesty of an interpretation of a Bible passage. Forced pr
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LOVED THIS BOOK. A very intense read about an alternate universe (I sure seem to be drawn to these kinds of books) where women all have very defined roles, none of which are to be educated, read or work. Offred is a handmaid, and she must have sex to try to create a child for her commander (who is married). This book raises lots of questions about being a woman, a wife, a daughter in society and about religion. Would highly recommend it.
Raises more questions than it has answers but that is also ...more
Raises more questions than it has answers but that is also ...more
Amazing book, even more timely in the last seven+ years.
Sep 04, 2007
Brittany Darner
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