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Margaret Atwood gets weird, y’all

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

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A coworker recommended this one after I’d said I’d watched and really, really liked Alias Grace. Before this, the only Atwood book I had read was Handmaid’s Tale and while this also deals with a dystopian future and the end of humanity as we know it, it’s more of a science fiction than philosophical end. It is also waaaay too clearly just the first book in a series. Like The Hobbit took one book and divided it into three movies – I feel like Oryx and Crake took one movie and is milking three books out of it. It didn’t feel like enough happened for […]

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3/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

At usual hilarious book by Atwood (Spoiler: not at all hilarious. But definitely awesome)

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

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(Probably) uncontroversial opinion: Margaret Atwood is an outstanding female author.  I intentionally said “female author” instead of just author because I think that in this specific instance, being a woman gives Atwood an edge to make her characters, especially the female ones, incredibly realistic.  She digs into topics and issues with such clarity that you find yourself better understanding moments that have happened in your own life.  I adore her, and everything I have ever read by her, and this is no different. In this book, Elaine has returned to her hometown a successful-ish painter, in order to have her […]

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2/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Good Setup, Good Themes, but also Kind of a Mess

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

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After finally reading The Handmaid’s Tale earlier this year, I figured it was time to dive into more Margaret Atwood content! I was looking at Alias Grace but my friend assures me I will love the TV show, so I’m holding off on that one for now. So where to go? Well, the title of The Heart Goes Last kept poking at something in my brain, and so, off I went. It’s as simple as that. And what I got was something very unique and filled with commentary about many different things, but also quite a wacky little setup and […]

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12/8/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

No.

Angel Catbird. by Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, Tamra Bonvillain

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No. Just. No. You need more? Fine. Here’s more. I was reading the introduction to this because Margaret Atwood wrote the introduction and it was lovely. Here was this old lady who decided to write a comic book about a man who’s both bird and cat even though she’s so old that she no longer has a cat, because she is afraid she would trip over it. Then she starts talking about Catbird. She dives into the themes of a man being both a cat and a bird. Wanting to save a bird while at the same time desiring to […]

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11/27/2017 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

Well, that was a book.

Life before man by Margaret Atwood

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So, when my husband and I watch a movie that seems to have had no point – spoiler alert, they’re almost always French – we turn to one another and have some variation of the same conversation. “Well, that was a movie.” ”yep.” ”it was movie length, and pictures moved across the screen.” ”mhmmm.” I love Margaret Atwood (the octothorplet was nearly named Atwood), and this book was neither good nor bad, it was a book. It was book length, and words were printed on the page. That said, a book by Atwood is like pizza; even when it’s bad, […]

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11/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

A deeply enjoyable and complex tale by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

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What did I say when I was working my way through the Atwood canon? Cat’s Eye was one of the other few Atwoods I hadn’t read in my local library, until I realized that book club and my bookshelf books were calling. I’ll probably get to more Atwood in 2018 once I’ve finished reading the books I actually own. I have to confess, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Cat’s Eye as much as I absolutely did, but what else are you going to do when Margaret Atwood throws you into a deep and time-traveling story? Cat’s Eye moves in two […]

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11/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:126 |

Not quite a key party, but close.

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood

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One of my projects this year was to make a dent in the Atwood canon, and I seem to have done so in the latter half of 2017. I had heard very little about Life Before Man, but I thought it would be intriguing to see some of her earlier work, since I had never read any books published prior to The Handmaid’s Tale. You can see her sly humor and nascent feminism here, even if there are some heavily domestic tropes in the novel. Atwood pulls apart the threads of family and relationship like no other, and this novel […]

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11/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:120 |

A reliable/unreliable narrative

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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One of my 2017-2018 goals, besides reading all the books on my shelf (a project that is rapidly winding down, thank goodness!), is to read all of Margaret Atwood’s books. She’s so prolific that it’s an act easier said than done, but with my book club pick coming up, I decided to use it wisely on a book I’d never read. And that’s the story of how I ended up reading Alias Grace. Also, the arrival of the Netflix show has me intrigued (also, WHEN IS HBO MAKING MADDADDAM? I will pay them all my moneys for this, so, you […]

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11/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:107 |


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