28. Read a book whose first AND last initials can be found in MENTAL HEALTH BOOKCLUB

[Martha]

Some examples
Audrey Niffenegger
Haruki Murakami
Kate Mosse
Liane Moriarty
Erin Morgenstern
Caitlin Moran
Arthur Miller
Harper Lee
Marian Keyes
Matt Haig
Charlotte Brontë
Margaret Atwood
Olga Trujillo
Karyl McBride
Marya Hornbacher
Bret Easton Ellis
Allie Brosh

Discussion prompts
- What will you / did you read for this prompt? What did you think?
- Is this the first of this author's books that you've read? If not, what else have you read?

[Kassay]

For this prompt, i read The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood.

This is the first book I've read by her, but I definitely want to check out some of her other books.

I really enjoyed that book. Its kind of like a prison experiment book, but the storyline is much more specific than that. Its not just a regular dystopian/utopian book. I really reccomended you give this book a read though!!

[Marina]

Great that you liked it, Kassay! I was curious about it, but didn't actually know of anyone who had already read it. Personally, my favorite book by Margaret Atwood is The Handmaid's Tale, although I haven't read all of her books yet. I really like how she writes and the stories she comes up with. Obviously some books are better than others, but this is normal.

[Martha]

Sounds interesting Kassay! The only one I've read from Atwood is the Handmaid's Tale, but I didn't love it, which makes me a bit hesitant to try others!

For this prompt I read The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future by Alexandra Brodsky. I thought it was fantastic, and would really recommend it. It's basically a collection of writers and artists creating work around the idea of a Feminist Utopia. The result is a mix of essays, short stories, poems, interviews, pictures etc., with a whole range of ideas about what a utopia would look like. I didn't necessarily agree with everyone's ideas, but it was really interesting to see what they were, and the huge spectrum of stories about women of colour, LGBTQIA women, disabled women, law, economics, health, reproduction, body image etc.