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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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“There is more than one kind of freedom. . . . Freedom to and freedom from.”

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

March 5, 2022 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I’ve had The Handmaid’s Tale on my shelf for many months now, but I’ve been avoiding starting it. I wanted to read it, but I felt like I had to be in a certain (untroubled) emotional state to face it, and that’s been a tall order these past couple of years. I recently braced myself and got down to business. Of course I already knew the premise: In the near-future, after the U.S. government has been overthrown and replaced by a patriarchal, Cristhian theonomy, women […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr14, dystopian fiction, feminist fiction, KimMiE", Margaret Atwood

KimMiE"'s CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14, dystopian fiction, feminist fiction, KimMiE", Margaret Atwood ·
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“Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare.”

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

December 29, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

I actually really enjoyed this retelling of The Tempest*, particularly since I had just re-read the play as a refresher, so it was a lot easier to catch all the references and parallels. This is actually only my third Margaret Atwood book, which feels weird, since she is everywhere, and also because I’ve read The Handmaid’s Tale three times. About time I branched out! (I’m sorry, Malin, I still haven’t read The Blind Assassin, which is a book I know you love.) *Thanks to andtheIToldYouSos […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, Book Exchange, Book Exchange 2020, Hag-Seed, lit-fic, literary, literary fiction, Margaret Atwood, narfna, retellings, The Tempest

narfna's CBR13 Review No:199 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, Book Exchange, Book Exchange 2020, Hag-Seed, lit-fic, literary, literary fiction, Margaret Atwood, narfna, retellings, The Tempest ·
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It was the ring of counterfeit Elvis robots that did it for me, honestly.

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

September 13, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

“He can’t shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there’s no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he’s ungrateful by nature.” The nation is in economic ruin. Everyone is fighting for whatever scraps are left. Which is why Charmaine is grateful to have a job as a bartender, even if she and her husband Stan are living in their car and moving every few hours […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, dystopian future, Margaret Atwood, plot twist, speculative ficiton, Suspense

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, dystopian future, Margaret Atwood, plot twist, speculative ficiton, Suspense ·
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