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The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

Start date: June 1, 2015

Finish date: June 30, 2015

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Apr 23, 2015 Cecily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi-future-speculative-fict, historical-fict-20th-cent, crime-detective-mystery, usa-and-canada, favourites, miscellaneous-fiction, unreliable-narrators

“All stories are about wolves… Anything else is sentimental drivel.”

Atwood doesn’t write sentimental drivel (and I don’t read it), and there are several wolves in this stunning book. This is my tenth Atwood, and it’s even better than any of the others I’ve enjoyed. The scope and variety of her work is impressive, but here, she accomplishes that within the covers of a single book: it should be shelved as historical fiction, memoir, espionage/thriller, and sci-fi.

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Oct 30, 2010 Katherine rated it really liked it

This book has the story that grows on you. You don't know what's happening in the first 30 pages, but you're intrigued by the opening line and stick to it, as much as you can. After, you gradually understand the three different stories happening at the same time and towards the end everything makes more sense and you end up completely impressed the cleverness of how the three (or four?) ways Margaret Atwood shared this sad and curious story.

The story is based on two sisters who group in a family ...more

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