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The Handmaid's Tale
With terrifying understatement, this novel narrates the life of a college-educated mother ripped from her career and family to be a slave, in a dystopian United States too plausible to be forgotten. Forbidden by a fanatical government to read, choose their own clothes or appear in public alone, handmaids fulfill an awful purpose as the servants of ...show more
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Such a good reminder that women have been through so much and yet our rights are still being stripped away.
This book warrants a trigger warning due to its morose and unsettling writing style, making it difficult for me to complete. Issa nope from me.
Maybe I'll be able to finish it later on in life.
Maybe I'll be able to finish it later on in life.
Fiction? I certainly hope so. But after watching the news, reading the newspaper and articles on the internet (I won't even go into comments on news articles or my awareness via social media of the leanings of long time friends and family members) I wonder ---- will my rights still be in place when I wake up in the morning??
A friend of mine couldn't stop talking about this series on Hulu. Since I didn't have that streaming app, I decided to read the book to see what all the fuss was about. It's quite the story! At first you're shocked by the insanity of it all. None of this could ever happen now; it's so far fetched. While that may be true for the most part, there are parts of the book that make you think how fragile our current state of affairs is and how quic...read more
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