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

Margaret Atwood

Start date: September 1, 2013

Finish date: September 30, 2013

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Sept 2013 - The Handmaid's Tale

* Chapters 1- 12
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* Chapters 13 - 24
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Dec 27, 2017 Jen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: female-fantasy-science-fiction, favorite-books

Let’s get something straight - this book scared the shit out of me. This should be labeled as ‘realistic horror’.

The way the story unfolds, in stops and starts and remembrances... this was more true and moving than any story told in straightforward language in cohesive order.

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Sep 13, 2016 Seth rated it liked it

[Steve is dreaming of his time with YA fiction in Coventry, RI.]

Steve: "I am an adult. This is a meme."
Atwood: "Then it is a good meme. Read."

[She leans down to kiss Steve.] ...more

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Oct 29, 2013 Katherine rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, literary, dystopian, family, 2013

Review to come ...

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Sep 30, 2019 Grandpa Jud rated it really liked it

I did not find the Handmaid's Tale an easy book to read - I disliked almost everything about her constrained, constricted life - but her story was certainly interesting. ...more

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