#bookoflives

[boomerbroadcaster]

For A Good Time . . . Read Margaret Atwood!

The first book by Margaret Atwood that I ever read was The Edible Woman in the early 70’s shortly after it was first published, and I loved it. It was set in Toronto with plenty of recognizable locations and experiences I could identify with. Her main character, Marian McAlpin, worked for Seymour Surveys at a joe-job that wasn’t that different from my own job at Ma Bell back then. I could relate…

For A Good Time . . . Read Margaret Atwood!

[probinism]

Atwood’s Book of Lives is a love letter to process: the bush teaches attention, the stage teaches timing, the archive teaches patience. The “prequels” to her novels reframe the books you thought you knew—Handmaid’s mapped onto Harvard brick, Alias Grace quilted from documents and rumor. It’s all thresholds and making.

Read now!!