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A review by novabird
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5.0
One of my go-to reads when I need to augment my sense of validation/agency. Atwood provides VALIDATION of personal power struggles/agency and this is her greatest gift to readers. She takes her "Survivalist/Canadian" genre to the limits and tests it. She tests its hypothesis via an eloquent scientific representation in a much more literary world. This literary world that she created accurately depicts a climate of fear.
Regardless of the fact that Atwood writes like she is an alien/time travelling visitor from a distant and intelligent neck of our universal woods, she brings me back time and time again with her poetic acerbic flow. When I am in an "I fear authority," mindset, and need to buttress my self-worth, I delve back into the "things could always be much, much worse," frame of mind. Then I once again startle back into awareness and think to myself, "Hey, that has a striking similarity to what I already have witnessed or know to be true."
More than once in a blue moon, I need to be first lulled and then jarred, awake by recognition. This is my favoured Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment.
1/5 hard copies that I have remaining after my switch from 500 paper copies library to a Kindle.
Regardless of the fact that Atwood writes like she is an alien/time travelling visitor from a distant and intelligent neck of our universal woods, she brings me back time and time again with her poetic acerbic flow. When I am in an "I fear authority," mindset, and need to buttress my self-worth, I delve back into the "things could always be much, much worse," frame of mind. Then I once again startle back into awareness and think to myself, "Hey, that has a striking similarity to what I already have witnessed or know to be true."
More than once in a blue moon, I need to be first lulled and then jarred, awake by recognition. This is my favoured Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment.
1/5 hard copies that I have remaining after my switch from 500 paper copies library to a Kindle.