Handmaid's Tale
8 journalers for this copy...
Okay, so maybe it's an important book ... it is still creepy.
This is a second copy acquired at a library book sale for release.
This is a second copy acquired at a library book sale for release.
Sent to shorty04 to replace the missing bookring copy.
Got this in today.
Thank you so much ThymeWaits for resurrecting this book ray! You rock!
Thank you so much ThymeWaits for resurrecting this book ray! You rock!
Offering this one as a US ONLY BOOKRAY! PM me if you would like to join, and I will add you to the end of the list!
Big thanks to ThymeWaits for supplying this replacemet book!
1. dvg (NJ) done
2. collectorkerri (IL)done
3. Bulan-Purnama (OR) done
4. olered (OR) done
5. nightraine56 (MO)done
6. -Psyche- (MN)<------BOOK IS HERE!
7. aliciayoung (GA)
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OLD BOOK LINK:http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3790408
Rules: After you get the book make a short journal entry saying that you have it. Then read the book in about four (4) weeks or so. Then pass it to the next person on the list(PM them for addy). The last one to on the list gets to keep the book!
Big thanks to ThymeWaits for supplying this replacemet book!
1. dvg (NJ) done
2. collectorkerri (IL)done
3. Bulan-Purnama (OR) done
4. olered (OR) done
5. nightraine56 (MO)done
6. -Psyche- (MN)<------BOOK IS HERE!
7. aliciayoung (GA)
8.
9.
OLD BOOK LINK:http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3790408
Rules: After you get the book make a short journal entry saying that you have it. Then read the book in about four (4) weeks or so. Then pass it to the next person on the list(PM them for addy). The last one to on the list gets to keep the book!
Journal Entry 5 by shorty04 at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Friday, September 22, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (9/22/2006 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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Sending to dvg to re-start the ray!
Sending to dvg to re-start the ray!
Arrived here safely! =)
I am finishing another book and am so excited about starting this one by Monday!
I am finishing another book and am so excited about starting this one by Monday!
This wonderfully written book has so much going on: the meaning of friendship when it's not allowed, the danger of not paying attention when civil rights are slowly taken away, the struggle to just survive one more day. The tale is so extraordinary that you as the reader think that couldn't possibly happen!
Then the reader is reminded of secret wiretapping, of the with us or be unpatriotic, control over women much like that of the women in Afghanistan, of the public paying more attention to celebrity hijinks than to things happening around them. It makes the reader gets a bit scared of the possibility of a government fully in control of a person’s life.
This is a must-read book. It will make you think, it will be a cause for conversation. I highly recommend it and am buying a copy to wild release!
Emailed collectorkerri who is next on list. =)
Update: Sent to collectorkerri on 11/1/06. Enjoy!
Then the reader is reminded of secret wiretapping, of the with us or be unpatriotic, control over women much like that of the women in Afghanistan, of the public paying more attention to celebrity hijinks than to things happening around them. It makes the reader gets a bit scared of the possibility of a government fully in control of a person’s life.
This is a must-read book. It will make you think, it will be a cause for conversation. I highly recommend it and am buying a copy to wild release!
Emailed collectorkerri who is next on list. =)
Update: Sent to collectorkerri on 11/1/06. Enjoy!
I have a couple other bookrings to get to first, then I'll start this one.
I have to admit, this book scared the hell out of me. As an American who is horrified at the turn toward the conservative that this country has taken during the reign of W, it had just enough realism that I could imagine it happening--kind of a "What would happen if Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (ultraconservative religious leaders) ran this country?" Atwood's prose was so vivid that I could imagine myself living in that society. I also liked the imagined academic conference at the end that explained some of the background of the society in the book.
Off to Bulan-Purnama to continue the bookring.
Off to Bulan-Purnama to continue the bookring.
The book is here in Oregon. Could not journal right away because of power outage yesterday. I have two bookrays to finish, then I will start with this. Thanks collectorkerri for mailing the book.
A quick note to everyone, I hope to finish by next week. Still waiting for olered address, if I do not hear within a few days, I will mail to the next reader.
Thanks so much to shorty-04 for this ring and to Bulan-Purnama for sending this on, I am anxious to read it.
Well - I think I'm momentarily speechless. Perhaps I should wait and journal after I've had a night to sleep on it.?? This was very thought provoking (creepy was a good word- above) and I can see this sort of thing happening as we are often too 'busy' watching - and sometimes even being paranoid over - the wrong things. And in the wrong places. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I didn't think it was the our government that brought this book's pocket of society into being but a 'replacement' group that killed all and took over the government. I'll go back and look more closely at the beginning. We do still have some checks and balences although we certainly don't want to be giving any of our rights away under any system.
Oh my gosh...I am so sorry. I thought I had posted the book and last night while sitting in my chair reached down between it and the table to pick up a fallen bookmark----the package had slid down there in between. It will go in the post TODAY. I apologize again! With embarrased and blushing cheeks!
Received today. I will start as soon as possible.
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I was not too impressed with the writing of this book. She wrote in present tense sometimes and in past tense other times. This made it a bit difficult fo rme to read. It's on its way to psyche.
I was not too impressed with the writing of this book. She wrote in present tense sometimes and in past tense other times. This made it a bit difficult fo rme to read. It's on its way to psyche.
It has arrived! I will read and pass along shortly!
Journal Entry 20 by -Psyche- at A fellow bookcrosser in By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, October 18, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/18/2007 UTC) at A fellow bookcrosser in By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Finally, out into the wide world!
Finally, out into the wide world!