The Year of the Flood | 
pickWonderful to finally read this, many years after reading (and loving) Oryx & Crake. This added more substance and perspective to the events and characters of the first book and was great to experience the lives of some outside the compounds. Some of the gardeners hymns became a drag, and the coincidences were too much. Otherwise fantastic and looking forward to reading the last of the trilogy.
so-soI absolutely love Atwood, but I was almost ready to bail halfway through this one. I wouldn‘t recommend unless you‘ve read Oryx and Crake. For me, it didn‘t achieve true momentum until I started to figure out how the stories fit together.
Almost finished my reread of book #2. Definitely remembered less of this one. I'm torn whether I actually like this series or not. On one hand it's really out there, but on the other hand it's very relevant.
Shoot! Started this, got hooked, and now realize it's number TWO. Must go back for "Oryx and Crake" next.
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In the second book of this speculative fiction trilogy, Atwood deftly weaves in another perspective of the story, this time from the feminine point of view. The layers of character development and intricate world-building made me appreciate the first even more. It‘s creative, witty, powerful, and eerily visionary. On to the last installment! 🎧
I will dread the end of this trilogy! #Maddaddam#TheYearOfTheFlood#MargaratAtwood
so-soI loved the first book in the series so much but I felt that this one was lacking. The end felt weirdly inconsistent for the characters. It's still a pretty good read and if you are looking for apocalypse books this is a pretty okay one!
In a you gotta love irony moment, this book made it through the basement flood unscathed.
pickMy November #doublespin is finally finished. I am not quite sure about this book. It was an interesting story, but some parts were sometimes a bit hard to read, some of the hymns for example. It was a good enough addition to the first and I will read the next one. I've heard there was actual music made to the hymns. Maybe I'll listen to that once.
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TBR since November 5th, 2011; 516 pages.
pickBetween Tony being off work for two weeks and some serious back to school anxiety, I haven't been able to concentrate on reading much at all. It took me an absurdly long time to read this, but I really liked it despite that. I think if I had read it at a different time, I would have liked it even more than Oryx & Crake.
Ready for a productive day of #audiocleaning - I feel like I havent had any time to read this week!
so-soOryx and Crake is probably my favorite novel by Atwood. I wasn't blown away by this one, but I haven't read Oryx and Crake since it came out, so maybe that's why. Definitely creepy weird reading these during the pandemic.
Goals: The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam, Normal People, and The Bookshop of Yesterdays
I have so much work I have to do over the next two weeks, but I think I can do it. #nutsinmay @Andrew65
Got in 8 hours and 13 minutes for the final day of #24B4MONDAY II! #readathon. So that brought me to somewhere between 17-18 hours for this ‘thon. Photo is the bedside table where I am posted for the test days. Looking forward to next weekend☺️😉
Getting my girl plugged into the #24b4monday and #potteraday ! Please help get her inducted, thanks!
This is exactly what I had in mind for next weekend‼️#litsypartyofone #readathon
pickMade the mistake of picking up Year of the Flood before her first novel. I‘m biased because I love the author, but the story telling was easy to delve into. Used her common method of flashbacks, included a bit of vulgarity I respect. I tended to skip over the breaks between characters with Adams sermons, but I‘d recommend this to anyone that appreciates a good dystopian novel. 8/10
It was just a week ago that I got to meet my #favoriteAuthor. #gratefulreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
I managed to finish Rosewater yesterday night and this means I'm only travelling with ebooks for the long weekend ahead. :) starting this one soon... And seeing the Tolkien exhibition in Paris :) #vendredilecture
pickThe second in the trilogy, this follows the Gardeners - a group, or cult - trying to survive in the strange world first described in O&C. I didn‘t enjoy this as much as O&C; it was more about the characters, less of the world building. Still, I enjoyed how it runs alongside O&C and how the ending flows on from the ending in the first book, leaving me intrigued as to how the story will play out in the final book, MaddAdam.
pickAccording to Goodreads, it‘s been 2 years since I finished Oryx and Crake. No idea why I didn‘t get to this one soon...it was awesome.
Atwood is a fantastic writer (not news, I know). This is the perfect dystopian for me. Scary because it seems like a possible future for us. Excellent characters, a grown up storyline, humor, and non-stop action.
Highly recommend the audio, as it made Adam One‘s preachiness bearable-with fun songs! 😆
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It's raining so hard I can't hear my audiobook, which fittingly is The Year of the Flood. Lovely British summer.
so-soI made the mistake of picking up this book before Oryx and Crake, not realizing it was part of a trilogy. Also, the passages written by Adam One I just couldn't stomach. I felt like I was glimpsing an alternate reality, which made me uncomfortable, because in a strange way it is possible. Otherwise, the story was engaging and fascinating. Toby and Ren make for interesting narrators. #recentlyread #nospoilers #sciencefiction #dystopian #matwood
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Covering roughly the same timeframe as the first book of the series, we are now following Toby and Ren and slowly are discovering overlaps and conbections to the first book.
I need to pick up the last book quickly, because I have forgotten so much of the first book and I am sure I didn't see many of the overlaps.
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For my clifi category i chose this excellent book which expands on the story begun in oryx and crake with the story of how 2 women, drawn into the semi religious environmental group 'gardeners' experience the disaster caused by corprations experimenting with the gene pool of animals, humans and plants. I had forgotten much of bk 1 but having recapped was totally absorbed in the world very quickly in a thrilling read. Maddadam awaits.
I'd put off the 2nd in this series despite being on my shelf so decided to read for clifi + what a joy, im struggling to put it down but luckily today i am waiting around at work. This speech sums up what is happening to our world today as 'ours is a fall into greed. Why do we think everything on earth belongs to us..' parodying religion with skill her ideas on climate are spot on.
#booked2019 @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen
It is already mid May and I feel like I am way behind on the Spring reading for #booked2019 ... HELP!!
I already know what I want to read for #cli-fi and #featuresmusician, but I am still completely clueless for #socialmediafocus and #foodbeveragecover. Any input you have is more than welcome!
The last few days I‘ve been reading on a cruise ship! 🚢 Thus was in Ensenada, Mexico. I‘m home now - trying to finish this book. Having a great spring break! #teachersoflitsy
pickThis book made me think long and hard that God forbid if ever a plague were to wipe out the human race, that the ones who remain will hopefully know what to do to survive
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@CouronneDhiver @hermyknee here's the answer to your question! We brought home a sweet 3 year old girl today. Looks like we're gonna name her Toby, after the character from Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam series. She has a sneeze that were going to have to keep an eye on, and if it doesn't clear up soon, looks like we'll be going to the vet for possible kennel cold issue. So fingers crossed it isn't anything major!
Which Atwood book to recommend for #adventrecommends! I love them all. But since Handmaid‘s Tale (my 1st Atwood) gets so much attention, I decided to go with the middle volume of the MaddAddam trilogy. Read it. Read them all. Read everything Atwood writes! @emilyrose_x
#NoFemmeber If you're a fan of literary fiction, and not familiar with Margaret Atwood, you must be living #underarock 😉 She's a favorite book celebrity of mine- I remember waiting to hear her give a talk in a line that stretched around the block, and Salman Rushdie walked by, and smiled at us (at the Brooklyn Book Fest, not a random coincidence). Waxahatchee's celebrity is rising--if you don't know them yet, meet your next favorite band! 🤝
If anyone is wondering what to listen to while reading Margaret Atwood, I would suggest Dark & Stormy - a Spotify playlist. It goes great with The Year of the Flood.
Given the current weather patterns central Oklahoma, I took this may be an appropriate read.
pickI liked this follow-up to Oryx and Crake so much more. Perhaps because I already had figured out some of the ins & outs of this dystopian, perhaps because I didn‘t listen on audio to a narrator whose voice kind of freaked me out, perhaps because the main characters were women?
Not sure, but either way, a success.
This is not your YA Dystopian, friends, this is a world that will sicken you and scare you. & we should all read it. #24in48 #1down
I‘m having a much better time tracking by hand on this go-around!
Only 30 pages left of The Year of the Flood.
I put myself on a library ban... but now I might need to go get the third one immediaty🤫
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Morning errands DONE. Now nap time commences and I‘m giving myself freedom to read for a little while and then switch to audio so I can multi-task and clean!
The #24in48readathon #hour12 prompt is particularly fitting for my current read. Expanded world view or changed the way you look at something.
The MaddAddam trilogy is a slap in the face with reality... or warning rather. Set in a future that sounds alarmingly possible it made me...⤵️⤵️
First up, my#25in48 #stack not shown, Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks that I got a free download of on the @penguinusa Volumes app so I figured, I‘d give it a go! I‘m also reading Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris with my hubby, but we aren‘t doing much traveling this weekend.
I may also switch to Agatha Christie‘s Secret Notebooks if I get bored, but I‘m in the thick of The Year of The Flood so I‘m not sure what will happen 🤷🏻♀️
Litten Librarians.... am I the worst? I finally started reading this this week because I realized how long I‘ve had it and how absurd that is. BUT I can‘t renew it for further than the 14th 😩 do I go in and ask the library to check it in and check it back out? Are they gonna put me on a list of ridiculous library check out patrons??? 😬😬😬
What do I do??
Just finished up Mysterious Affair at Styles last night (I loved it, duh, it‘s Agatha Christie).
Now on to this baby, which I‘ve had out from the library for far too long.
Turns out May and June were slumpy months and July is shaping up to be a real humdinger.
I have such mixed feelings about the series but am compelled to finish it!
What are your thoughts on MaddAddam?
I've got new cool bookmarks, all thanks to @penspencilspapers
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