leni zumas – Cannonball Read 17

The Effects of Misogyny – From A(twood) to Z(umas)

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

July 17, 2019 by Jenny S 2 Comments

So apparently real life isn’t depressing and dystopian enough, so I made June my month to read (and re-read) books that construct an all too believable future for women and their reproductive rights. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was my book club’s pick for June and though I don’t know if I would use the phrase “looking forward to it” to describe how I felt about re-reading this novel, I was definitely curious to revisit it. I read the book about a year after it […]

Speculative extremes of women’s futures clearly demonstrate how everyone loses when inequality wins

August 13, 2018 by Mrs Smith Reads Leave a Comment

I’m reviewing these two books together because despite their opposite takes on speculative futures, they use similar storytelling techniques to describe how women’s lives might be different in both the near, and far future. Naomi Alderman’s The Power imagines a future where women develop an ability to physically harm others with electric shocks. Due to the release and dispersion of an environmental hazard, women begin to develop a “skein” within their bodies which allows them to physically overpower people (men) with a jolt of energy. The strength of […]

That’s a “meh” from me

July 5, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

I wasn’t sure how to feel about this book! I’m just going to separate this by things I liked and things I didn’t. Things I liked: * The honesty by which this book addressed some of our worst internal thoughts. * Connected to this, the fact that the characters don’t have to be perfect just because they are main characters. * The complex perspectives included covering who would be affected if any kind of personhood amendment for fetuses was passed: this doesn’t just cover people […]

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