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Margaret Atwood is an absolutely astonishing writer. Her rich, languishing, poetic voice drips through each paragraph. She is incredible at giving pause to tiny, beautiful things within the depths of the anguish of this story, and in doing so makes it so big. Such a love letter to the mind.
There are a million things to say about this book. I love the framing device of a discovered post-Gilead diary, with an academic assessment of it coming at the end (I needed this part to reveal to me the truth ...more
There are a million things to say about this book. I love the framing device of a discovered post-Gilead diary, with an academic assessment of it coming at the end (I needed this part to reveal to me the truth ...more
Well, I just finished it and I have to say this. For a book that was assigned to me, this was pretty good. Having no quotation marks was definitely a bother but I got over it. Hated the ending though. I hate not knowing. But I did enjoy the way she described things without plainly saying what it was, like the playboy bunny. I liked the story but I was often confused about who the narrator was talking about. Sometimes I thought it was her mother, other I thought it was her friend. I'm glad ther ...more
My first Margaret Atwood book and I'm not disappointed. I wanted to read the book before watching the Hulu series and I can definitely see how the book makes for a great tv series.
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