Teddy Carr’s Reviews > The Handmaid’s Tale > Status Update

Hour 5. I had a two hour D&D session, dramatic reading of the turkey scene in Red, White, and Royal Blue, multiple group therapy sessions and an hour long discussion on trigger warnings. So less reading, more talking.

Hour 1! Lots of talking, so I didn’t get far but that’ll calm down soon. Also I woke up at 5:30 am, 1.5 hours before I should have woken up so… I may not make it all 24 hours. We’ll see!

Not much progress today, but I just wanted to update because tomorrow I will be *attempting* a 24 hour reading challenge with friends. I will update every two, maybe three hours for y’all (but also for me). Gonna need some miracle to make it all 24 hours, but hopefully this knocks a couple books off my TBR!

I feeling like I’m flying through this — when compared to books I’ve read in the past few years, at least. As a kid, this would’ve been easy. Anyways, woohoo!! 💪

**Spoilers below**

So, previously, only men had quotation marks around their dialogue, but after *the arrangement,* the Commander no longer does. And, in Offred’s words, “He was no longer a thing to me.” Coincidence? I think not!

I often get bored of books with a lot of description but this has me hooked. I genuinely don’t know where the plot’s going (or if there will be much of a plot) but either way I’m excited to find out.
And I just noticed that only the men get quotation marks when they’re speaking. I don’t have the words to describe what that means right now but it’s important, thematic, etc, etc…

It was insightful but calm until chapter 11, dear lord. I don’t know what I was expecting, but certainly not that.

Reading this for our honors college book club which I’m very excited about :)
I’ve only read the intro and already I’m impressed. Atwood is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but she brings up many interesting points in a very palatable writing style.