Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
Published: January 19, 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Continue reading “Book Review: Just Kids by Patti Smith”
Book Review: Just Kids by Patti Smith
Category: Science Fiction
Book Review: Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 449 pages
Published: March 5, 2019
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: Young Adult, Fiction & Literature, Science Fiction, Romance Continue reading “Book Review: Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds”
Book Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 396 pages
Published: November 13, 2018
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Genre: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography & Memoirs
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Book Review: A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer
Format: Paperback
Pages: 396 pages
Published: May 1, 2010 (First published 1941)
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction Continue reading “Book Review: A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer”
Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 512 pages
Published: February 8, 2018
Publisher: Raven Books
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Thriller Continue reading “Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton”
Book Review: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 203 pages
Published: September 21, 2006 (First published 1924)
Publisher: Modern Library
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Science Fiction, Classics Continue reading “Book Review: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin”
Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Format: Paperback
Pages: 370 pages
Published: 1985
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Genre: Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
I am still in awe of what I have just finished. That is how emotionally impacted I was. The Handmaid’s Tale is the first book I ever read by Atwood. It was always on my TBR list and with the recent hype surrounding it, I decided to pick it up and start reading it. Never has there been a novel that was a politically correct story and provided an emotional impact, at the same time. You read this and you will grapple with the many issues that the novel sprouts out. The Handmaid’s Tale opens doors to what most people are afraid to look inside. Continue reading “Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood”
