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I read them all but one and the top left one I can't identity.

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Sorry, not feeling too celebratory towards independence this year #usindependenceday #julyjam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

The perfect time to read this one.
Brutal and poetic.

This book sat on my chest and clouded my days. I had a hard time leaving the world Ms. Atwood created once I put the book down. Everyone should read this haunted and depressing book. Mayday

Damn, I really picked the wrong time to read this graphic novel. It hits especially hard this week. 💔🤬 But, I am really curious to see how the graphic novel holds up to the book.

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This book doesn‘t require any introduction, nuff said…

“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.” -Atwood. The ominous tone of this story of women valued only for their fertility is frighteningly appropriate! Anyone who can get pregnant in America lost today. People of color and poor folks will of course pay the highest price. Rape survivors will be re-victimized when forced to carry their rapist‘s child. Women will die. Welcome to America. #firstlinefridays #reproductivehealthcare

This is hysterically funny only because it's so sad. Watch Margaret Atwood take a flamethrower to an unburnable copy of her novel.

Video: https://youtu.be/zpsMsAMY4eM
Article: https://boingboing.net/2022/05/25/watch-margaret-atwood-take-a-flamethrower-to-a...

This is clever. Plus MA with a flamethrower? Yes 👍

What a contradiction; Women are protected. Women are vessels. Women are safe. Women are for breeding… I found myself thinking back and forth from sounds alright to sounds restricting. Kinda see todays relevance; govt. controlling women‘s bodies. Even with the odd writing, it was near impossible to put down. Offred‘s story hurt most when she reminisced the before yet stayed the Handmaid. So indoctrinated herself. Incredible it was published 1985

Had to dig this book up because of where the US appears to be headed. It‘s startling to think this book was written on 1985 for a period in 2005. The book feels likes it‘s own contradiction; women are more protected, yet their only viable to the world as long as they can make babies. Still feeling it out, but very gripping either way

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This was a must read given what is going on in the US. Amazing! Frighteningly real. #book67of2022

Amazon bestsellers in the category Censorship today.Gee, I wonder what‘s on a lot of peoples minds?

https://www.insider.com/margaret-atwood-anti-abortion-slavery-2017-6

I saw it coming, but still...WTF
I've said it before...elections have consequences.

Reading this for book club. 1/5 way through. Told in 1st person by a character after some upheaval in recent history which has reassigned everyone's roles and women are dressed accordingly - but haven't discovered what yet. Her flashbacks to her previous life seem muddled.
I wouldn't want to be in her position but she seems to bear it; still not quite sure how she fits into the society.

A stunning piece of speculative fiction, the familiarity of the society within the novel is unnerving when paired with the shocking actions and ideologies the people within Gilead had grown accustomed to.

I finished this book on Thursday, but forgot to post a review, and the internet was down yesterday so I could post it then either. Either way, I enjoyed this book a lot. I mean it. I unfortunately didn‘t have the second book with me, and so I read (and finished) another book, but now I have the second book! I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars.

Just one more thing:
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Interesting read

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.

Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

It took me a while to read this because it was so intense and dark, I had to take several breaks from it. I‘m glad I read it, though. It‘s brilliantly written; Margaret Atwood draws the reader in from page one. This book made me wonder if something like this could really happen. It isn‘t so far fetched. Don‘t read this at a time when you‘re stressed, anxious, angry, or feeling sad; this is not a relaxing or uplifting story. Highly recommended.

I‘m impressed with the connection of the cards- the past actions of disharmony in our laws, actions against peoples rights, autonomy, ignorance of disease, not loving each other or respecting love (of lovers , families) all of this has led up to the present feeling of conflict and anxiety.

We‘ve been warned not to look too happy.

It‘s the choice that terrifies me. A way out, a salvation.

What you don‘t know won‘t hurt you.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Translation: Do not let the bastards grind you down.

Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.

Now that she‘s the carrier of life, she is closer to death.

Nobody‘s heart is perfect.

I couldn‘t put this book down. It‘s been on my TBR since the show came out. I‘ve struggled with the show these last few seasons. Mainly cause I think June is one of the most frustrating female characters on TV right now. I do not like and I think she‘s terrible. But Offred is nothing like her. The book is similar yet so different. I wanted more but also thought it ended like it should. Atwood does it again.

Wow.
Extraordinary book, a hard pill to swallow for women there are very painful scenes to read through and the way they treated women in the book was horrendous.
But the raw emotions you could feel from Offred, no words, just amazing.
I loved the open ending, I like to think she did find light, that Nick was indeed a good man and she made it out and started a new life, now free.

Nevertheless it hurts me to tell it over again. Once
was enough: wasn't once enough for me at the time? But I
keep on going with this sad, hungry and sordid story, bc after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, (…) By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe You into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

“I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in
fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by
force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.
I've tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers,
for instance, because where would we be without them?”

“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one's life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow.”

Mi è davvero piaciuto molto perché di base c'è qualcosa che dall'oggi al domani potrebbe capitare anche a noi.
Nel libro proviamo quello che prova l'ancella protagonista del racconto e vediamo quello che vede, e questo è molto forte.
Flashback ci portano al mondo come era prima e come lo conosciamo noi, poi pian piano tutto si sfuma e torniamo al presente.
Ci sono parti molto crude, ma nel complesso penso che sia una bellissima lettura.