(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 […]
Good Setup, Good Themes, but also Kind of a Mess
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 […]
No.
No. Just. No. You need more? Fine. Here’s more. I was reading the introduction to this because Margaret Atwood wrote the introduction and it was lovely. Here was this old lady who decided to write a comic book about a man who’s both bird and cat even though she’s so old that she no longer has a cat, because she is afraid she would trip over it. Then she starts talking about Catbird. She dives into the themes of a man being both a cat […]
Well, that was a book.
So, when my husband and I watch a movie that seems to have had no point – spoiler alert, they’re almost always French – we turn to one another and have some variation of the same conversation. “Well, that was a movie.” ”yep.” ”it was movie length, and pictures moved across the screen.” ”mhmmm.” I love Margaret Atwood (the octothorplet was nearly named Atwood), and this book was neither good nor bad, it was a book. It was book length, and words were printed on […]
A deeply enjoyable and complex tale by Margaret Atwood
What did I say when I was working my way through the Atwood canon? Cat’s Eye was one of the other few Atwoods I hadn’t read in my local library, until I realized that book club and my bookshelf books were calling. I’ll probably get to more Atwood in 2018 once I’ve finished reading the books I actually own. I have to confess, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Cat’s Eye as much as I absolutely did, but what else are you going to do when […]
Not quite a key party, but close.
One of my projects this year was to make a dent in the Atwood canon, and I seem to have done so in the latter half of 2017. I had heard very little about Life Before Man, but I thought it would be intriguing to see some of her earlier work, since I had never read any books published prior to The Handmaid’s Tale. You can see her sly humor and nascent feminism here, even if there are some heavily domestic tropes in the novel. […]
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