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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
I chose the opening line of Lady Oracle for my review because it's easily the best line and the rest of the book fails to live up to the expectations set up by this introduction. Reading the first chapter, I really felt I was in for a special book, and I'm sad to say that's just not the case.
i can't really begin to explain what the book was about to be honest, or what the overall "point" of it was. I liked Atwood's writing style and I liked certain parts of the book and the bizarreness of the character but everything seemed so surface level that it seems the book keeps you at an arms length the entire time, refusing to let you connect with the characters nor care what happens to them. It's been a mere week since I finished this and I have absolutely no memory of how the book ended. Maybe that's on me and my attention span/memory, maybe it's on the story. Who knows.
For my full review, please follow the link below:
https://www.bookwormadventuregirl.com/post/lady-oracle-by-margaret-atwood
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This was the first book that I read of Margaret Atwood's, and I absolutely loved it. Joan Foster is a spectacularly witty character who adds humor to her heartbreak, making her story both fun and educational to read.
I loved the themes and I loved reading this book, but the plot stopped making sense to me when they introduced the dynamite plan.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Death of parent
Mam wrażenie, że obiektywnie jest to bardzo dobra książka. Jednak do mnie nie do końca przemówiła (mogę po części zrzucić winę na dość duże rozciągnięcie jej czytania w czasie i nie wyłapania wszystkich połączeń między wątkami).
Na pewno jest to pozycja intrygująca o wręcz ogromnym portrecie psychologicznym głównej bohaterki przedstawianym nam tak naprawdę przez całą książkę. Pomysł na fabułę też jest bardzo ciekawy. Stylu chyba nie muszę komentować, w końcu to Margaret Atwood
Na pewno jest to pozycja intrygująca o wręcz ogromnym portrecie psychologicznym głównej bohaterki przedstawianym nam tak naprawdę przez całą książkę. Pomysł na fabułę też jest bardzo ciekawy. Stylu chyba nie muszę komentować, w końcu to Margaret Atwood
Dare I say it, this is my new favourite Margaret Atwood novel. And we all know how much I bloody love Margaret Atwood.
Lady Oracle is about a Mills and Boon writer who dates a Polish count, marries a politically active Canadian, fakes her own death, and moves to Italy. Sound familiar? Yes, it’s my fifty year plan. But there’s more to this story. There’s a difficult mother/daughter relationship. A bizarre affair with a bizarre artist. A bitter failed writer trying to destroy his successful peers. A woman torn between binary identities enforced on her.
This novel was so much fun to read, and probably even more so to write. Atwood is witty, joyous, scalding, and hilarious. Her literary fiction is some of the greatest I’ve read, as captivating as her science-fiction but with a hint of mirth and cheek.
I’m not sure if Atwood was a fat child growing up, but she was convincingly on the money
Lady Oracle is about a Mills and Boon writer who dates a Polish count, marries a politically active Canadian, fakes her own death, and moves to Italy. Sound familiar? Yes, it’s my fifty year plan. But there’s more to this story. There’s a difficult mother/daughter relationship. A bizarre affair with a bizarre artist. A bitter failed writer trying to destroy his successful peers. A woman torn between binary identities enforced on her.
This novel was so much fun to read, and probably even more so to write. Atwood is witty, joyous, scalding, and hilarious. Her literary fiction is some of the greatest I’ve read, as captivating as her science-fiction but with a hint of mirth and cheek.
I’m not sure if Atwood was a fat child growing up, but she was convincingly on the money
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I feel mixed about this book. There were many parts that were enjoyable and the main character Joan has so many relatable moments. Being in relationships she doesn’t care for, using work as an escape from life, being bullied, feeling awkward in your own body, defiance as a teen toward her mother.
The more I read the more I felt her life paralleled her novel characters. There’s always an easy out through escaping and running away. That became a frustrating part. You’re reading a story of a smart, funny character that you’re rooting for that just keeps taking the easy out.
Joan’s dramatic approach to solutions was tiring and felt almost distracting from the core plot. The end really lost me. It felt so so unsatisfying.
One other reviewer said they’d have liked more ‘on the run’ adventure and I completely agree.
Atwood is a great writer so it was enjoyable most of the time but a few things lost me.
Her thinking her dad killed her mom was so weird and completely contextless. Also her writing a postcard to Aurther felt hypocritical to the whole book, character and plot. Those two things are where the book really lost me.
The more I read the more I felt her life paralleled her novel characters. There’s always an easy out through escaping and running away. That became a frustrating part. You’re reading a story of a smart, funny character that you’re rooting for that just keeps taking the easy out.
Joan’s dramatic approach to solutions was tiring and felt almost distracting from the core plot. The end really lost me. It felt so so unsatisfying.
One other reviewer said they’d have liked more ‘on the run’ adventure and I completely agree.
Atwood is a great writer so it was enjoyable most of the time but a few things lost me.