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The power of Margaret Atwood compels you!

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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I liked this a lot, even if the central message can be boiled down to “power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely,” and that’s as provocative a statement as “water is wet.” A frame tale where academics use historical documents to reconstruct a past much like our present as gender imbalance creates a crisis point and reveal their own biases in the interpretation is gonna get compared to Margaret Atwood for obvious reasons.  To say this is not The Handmaid’s Tale is no slight to Alderman; even Atwood’s worst books are beautifully, elegantly, intricately written. Even the Rockies look like gravel […]

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6/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. ”

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood’s imagining of the true story of Grace Marks, a convicted (and later pardoned) murderess… “Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word—musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.” … in 19th century Canada whose sensationalistic trial left doubt as to the nature of her involvement in the double murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/mistress Nancy Montgomery. Atwood utilizes what is […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

A modern Shakespeare

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

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What a fabulous read!!! I am a big fan of Shakespeare and am fast becoming a big fan of Margaret Atwood. This book is a modern take of The Tempest. What is fascinating about it, compared to other modern adaptations is the way is winds the play within the story, with the story itself. The story follows Felix, an Artistic Director. It begins with him preparing to put on the play, The Tempest. You learn that both his wife and more recently daughter, have passed away. Due to a number of theatre politics, he is fired from his position. He […]

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6/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

A hilarious and heartwarming book. J/k, it’s Margaret Atwood.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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This is the May book club pick of my local library, and I was a little disappointed only because I wasn’t looking forward to rereading it. I am a huuuuuge Atwood fan and was hoping to dig into something new. Well, the joke is on me because I realized that I had somehow conflated this book with Anita Diamant’s “The Red Tent” and I had somehow never read it. For shame. And how appropriate to kick off a review of “The Handmaid’s Tale” with a reflection on shame. In Atwood’s reality, set in modern times in the U.S., women have […]

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5/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Novel Within a Novel

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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Since I started Cannonball Read, I’ve tended to think, to varying degrees, about what I might write in a review as I’ve read each book. I didn’t do that much with this one, which I think is a testament to how engrossing it was. The main narrative frame is from the perspective of Iris Griffen (née Chase), a widowed woman in her 80s who has a heart condition and is trying to document her life before she dies: “It’s a slow race now, between me and my heart, but I intend to get there first. Where is there? The end, […]

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5/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

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 |


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