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> Tag: Margaret Atwood

Bonus books after my Cannonball! A short Margaret Atwood story

My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

November 26, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is apparently an Amazon Original Story, whatever that means? I knew that it was free and it was a short one, that’s for sure. I’ve read a bunch of Margaret Atwood’s books, so I thought I’d give this one a try, since it was only an hour long. I basically only read kindle books and audiobooks, so my books are measured in hours, not pages! Our main character is fifteen and growing up in the fifties with a mother who basically claims she’s a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Margaret Atwood, mothers, witches

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Margaret Atwood, mothers, witches ·
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Some

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

August 19, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Penelopiad – 4/5 This short book was written as part of a mythology fiction project in the early 00s where contemporary writers took on classic myths. Karen Armstrong wrote an overall history of mytholy, David Grossman wrote about Samson and Delilah, AS Byatt wrote about Ragnorok. As she did with the Shakespeare project when she wrote Hag-Seed based in The Tempest, she knocked the ball out of the park with this one. I think this is in part because she already has written numerous […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: David Diop, gene wolfe, John Hersey, Margaret Atwood, Neil Simon, Patricia Highsmith

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:482 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: David Diop, gene wolfe, John Hersey, Margaret Atwood, Neil Simon, Patricia Highsmith ·
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Adaptations are a net good

The Handmaid's Tale by Renee Hault, Margaret Atwood

August 10, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

I forget when, but I remember I tried to read Atwood’s original book and couldn’t get into it. Since then, I’ve watched an episode of the show and seen how it’s reflecting our day-to-day lives more and more, so I thought the graphic novel adaptation would be a perfect avenue for a second attempt. I was right; the story does work much better for me in this format. Then again, that comes as no surprise because I tend to prefer graphic novels; I’m absolute bunk […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Margaret Atwood, Renee Hault, Renee Hault, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:58 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Margaret Atwood, Renee Hault, Renee Hault, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale ·
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The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

June 27, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The other day (it’s 2022 by the way) a Republican candidate for office thanked Donald Trump for protecting “white life” and the crowd cheered. Her campaign later said she meant the “right to life” but sometimes you say what you mean, instead of saying what you meant to say. It happens. In rereading The Handmaid’s Tale, I am struck again by how profoundly dishonest Conservatives are. They are trying to preserve white life, and always have been, but they will just lie to your face […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Margaret Atwood

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:342 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Margaret Atwood ·
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My Evil Mother

My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

June 24, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

This was a great short story by Margaret Atwood. I haven’t been able to get into some of her stuff like “The Heart Goes Last” but this was wonderful. It’s honestly a great short story showing how much a mother did love her daughter, and how much though a daughter did not understand her mother, she realizes in the end how much she was loved. Mixed in was some fantasy elements which you have to figure out where real or not real.

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Margaret Atwood

Classic's CBR14 Review No:123 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Margaret Atwood ·
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Some stuff — Round Up

Money by Jacob Goldstein

Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson

Mind of my Mind by Octavia Butler

The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber

Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

Assembly by Natasha Brown

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

A Fanatic Heart by Ron Rosenbaum

How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter

My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

March 28, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Time and Free Will – 5/5 I am not a philosopher or even particularly well-read in philosophy, so this review is more from the perspective of someone with a literature background, and who is used to using philosophy to serve the aims of literature and philology. This book is particularly suited to the task because through early breakthroughs (or perhaps just ideologies) in psychology — specifically he references William James (and it’s possible he mentions Freud, but I don’t recall it specifically) — to better […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Walter, Dara Horn, David Baddiel, David Graeber, Henri Bergson, Jacob Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Brown, octavia butler, roger zelazny, Ron Rosenbaum, Timothy Mo

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Barbara Walter, Dara Horn, David Baddiel, David Graeber, Henri Bergson, Jacob Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Brown, octavia butler, roger zelazny, Ron Rosenbaum, Timothy Mo ·
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