I like Margaret Atwood a lot. I wrote a paper on her in 10th grade and one of my all time favourite books is The Robber Bride.
Today I finished Bodily Harm, Atwood's 5th novel from 1981. At the back of the book, under "about the author" it says "Margaret Atwood needs little introduction..." and that was 25 years ago! It's interesting since when I think of Atwood I don't think of her as being famous until well into my lifetime, which means in my mind she became famous when I first became aware of her (how typically self-centred). In any case, in Bodily Harm I can totally see the Atwood I know and love in the book, but I didn't enjoy it as much as some of her later work. I still have to read "The Penelopiad" and I want to re-read the Handmaids Tale (which I haven't read since 10th grade). So I started to think about what Atwood I've read. I've read some of Survival (her first non-fiction book about CanLit), none of her poetry and the following novels:
The Edible Woman
Bodily Harm
The Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
The Robber Bride
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Oryx and Crake
Which means I have not read:
Lady Oracle
Life Before Man
The Penelopiad
The Tent
Which suggests I have read twice as many as I have not read. Some day I will read them all. But I am in no hurray and they are not going anywhere :)
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the penelopiad is so clever! you must read it. i recently took the tent out of the library but didnt get to read it. perhaps i will go and get it back.
thanks for the chat!!
xoxoxo
i've only read the handmaid's tale...which i loved. i have been hesitant to read more but i'm not sure why. any recommendations on where i should start?
you go to the library? honestly... who does that? :)
I would definetly recommend the robber bride. I read it in high school and again in a second year CanLit class (so clearly my prof. also liked it). Otherwise Onyx and Crake (it's also a distopia like the handmaid's tale) or the blind assassian (and not just cause it has my favourite m. atwood cover).
Alex - care to weigh in?
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