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

Margaret Atwood

Start date: May 1, 2010

Finish date: May 31, 2010

Discussion: Themed Reading

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Jun 22, 2009 Vonney Young rated it it was amazing

I think I'd rather die trying to escape or standing up to my captors
than to be held against my will like the women and girls of Gilead. I
learned I'm way too old and independent in my thoughts and actions to
be influenced or intimidated by religion and religious leaders. Gilead
may be a fictitious place, but in my view, it already exists or existed
in convents, in fundamentalist Muslim communities, in Amish and Mennonite settlements, in branches of the Mormon Church or Church of Latter Day Saints. W ...more

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Mar 10, 2009 Kathy rated it really liked it

Truly a very different type of book for me. I read it many years ago. I was very intrigued by it and couldn't put it down. To this day, I think of this book everytime I put hand lotion on! ...more

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