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Picked up some old-school Atwoods at the thrift store.

1. A Lost Lady (Cather) Dancing Girls (Atwood)
2. “Instead she is lucky, suddenly, finally, she‘s overflowing with luck, it‘s this luck holding her up.”
3. Coffee, Diet Pepsi, and now wine.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

In someone else‘s hands this would have been a cliché - woman who writes about fashion and trends goes to Caribbean island to deal with mental issues due to breast cancer/surgery and gets swept up in a banana republic revolution. But in Atwood‘s capable hands, it‘s philosophical and real and symbolic, all at the same time. Pre- Handmaid, but dealing with many of the same issues of power and identity.

“If you were a girl it was a lot safer to be decent than to be beautiful. If you were a boy, the question didn‘t arise; the choice was whether or not you were a fool.”

#bookandbeverage Getting ready to meet the lady herself in 7 days! (but who‘s counting?) #gratefulreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#touch #quotsyapr19 @TK-421

#moremehthanyeah
Bits of Atwood‘s brilliance shine through, but I was mostly bored and didn‘t connect with the MC at all.

Thank you Eadie for your very generous box of books!! How lovely 💕 All set for some Atwood now!! Thanks again 😘

Margaret Atwood just because.

Too triggering for DV. No quotation marks, so the dialogue was hard to pick out of the prose.

This is my room while I'm a guest in Vancouver. I've searched my host's shelves (of mostly literary fiction) for something set #inagalaxyfarfaraway but came up empty. I did find a dozen old and new by Margaret Atwood, however. 😀

@RealLifeReading

Another Atwood for my collection. #bookmooch

#SpinePoetry #24in48

Born With Teeth
Bodily Harm
Girl in Pieces
The Secret History