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> Tag: Margaret Atwood

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

August 9, 2023 by narfna 2 Comments

In another time or another headspace, I might have given this five stars. If I ever re-read, I probably will. Unfortunately, my brain was just not in the mood for a long, measured, thoughtful, historical literary fiction novel when I read this back in April (!). I should probably have done the audiobook instead. (Anyone know if it’s any good? I’ve never heard of the narrator before.) *Have I EVER been in the mood for a Margaret Atwood? 🤔 I somehow managed to read The […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: book within a book, book within a book within a book, historical fiction, lit-fic, literary fiction, Margaret Atwood, narfna, The Blind Assassin

narfna's CBR15 Review No:75 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: book within a book, book within a book within a book, historical fiction, lit-fic, literary fiction, Margaret Atwood, narfna, The Blind Assassin ·
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Twisted

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

July 25, 2023 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Oryx and Crake is the first installment in the Maddaddam trilogy, a dystopian future with a liberal dose of gene splicing at its core. The novel is told through the perspective of “Snowman”/Jimmy, a depressed man, clothed in a bedsheet, presiding over a gaggle of ‘Children of Crake’ – innocent genetically engineered people living in a ruined world. Through his reflections, with learn about Jimmy and the world that was. We learn of the red-hot gene splicing industry, creating smart Pigoons, delicious Chickienobs, and adorable […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Dystopian, Margaret Atwood

Caesar's Wife's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: Dystopian, Margaret Atwood ·
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“There Is Never Only One, Of Anyone”

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

May 15, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Cat’s Eye is a story about friendship, family, memory, and, especially, trauma. It follows the life of Elaine from childhood through about age 50. Like The Blind Assassin, also by Margaret Atwood, this novel alternates between past and present and is primarily set in the past. Most of the novel occurs when Elaine is about age 8-10. Elaine and her parents and older brother had a nomadic lifestyle during Elaine’s early childhood. Her father is an entomologist who travels around looking at bugs. When Elaine […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: childhood trauma, Margaret Atwood

Tracy's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: childhood trauma, Margaret Atwood ·
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Margaret Atwood (3)

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

April 3, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” This is a reread of Margret Atwood’s Booker Prize winning novel The Blind Assassin, which was published in 2000, a few years after Alias Grace. I first read it after reading The Handmaid’s Tale for a class, and then Oryx and Crake on my own, and while it has some science fiction within the walls of the novel, this was my first realization that Margaret Atwood wrote other kinds of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Margaret Atwood

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:205 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Margaret Atwood ·
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Margaret Atwood (1-2)

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 by Margaret Atwood

Dearly by Margaret Atwood

February 6, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Burning Questions This is the latest collection of nonfiction from Margaret Atwood which comes from the years 2004-2022 or so. She mentions early on that she’s published a version of this book for each 20 years of her writing career, and given that she’s rounding the corner on 85 years, I am imagine there won’t be another collection of the same, but I wouldn’t put it past her. Among other things, there’s no doubt in my mind how ridiculous sharp she still is, and this […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Margaret Atwood

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:53 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Margaret Atwood ·
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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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