I absolutely loved this book. You may notice that I say this about many of the books I've registered, but I'm trying to share the books I love through BC, so many have high ratings. This book was one of the first pieces of fiction that I had read that really expounded the feminist ideals I have been studying. It has inspired me to read all of Atwood's books. I hope that whoever receives this book will enjoy it as much as I have. Up for trade.

Sending off to bflybabe.

THANK YOU FOR SENDING IT TO ME, Lindsay!!!!!!! :) Looks like a good, but sad, book. (Thank God that it IS fiction!!)

Currently reading this book... enjoying it... it's very thought-provoking and compelling.

Spooky.

AMAZING book! I'm very glad that I had the opportunity to read it (I just finished it today -- took me, a slow reader, almost a month to read the 395 pages.)
Now I want to get my hands on her other books!

Will be sent onto Rozenn

It was in my mailbox today ! Thanks, bflybabe.

It's a remarkable book, imo. It has everything that makes a perfect, frightening "dystopic" novel : the background is amazingly credible (it has been written in 1985, but isn't a bit old-fashioned), the society is subtly but inexorably tyrannical, and Offred's narration "rings true". The only thing that annoyed me is that the society's organization is not crystal-clear (I posted something on the Book Talk forum about that). But it's understandable, because Offred is part of it (and takes some things for granted) and doesn't know herself everything. Moreover, this novel is mostly touching and thought-provoking because of the superimposition of Offred's current life (her "downfall" that is her current status) and the constant reminders of her past (her husband, her daughter, her job, everything that was taken away from her because of their "illegality" according of the Gilead philosophy).

a nice gift from rozenn, thank you my friend !... she told me it's so plausible that it becomes really SCARY !! --> TBR !

Jan 6th, 2004
I started it around Xmas, and now past the middle of the book these days... it's a wonderful book :)
every night my eyes close before I close it... and sleep with the ligth on ! you've all been through that, haven't you ? so you'll know what it means !!!

Release planned for Saturday, January 24, 2004 at parc urbain in Villeneuve d'Ascq, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France.

This great great book, coming from so far away... ! big up to all of you !
when bookcrossing drives you into wheeping emotions :')
now book goes to a jig in a park... (he decided on his own, i mean, i'm just the driver ;)
megabookcrossing 2
catch it fellows !

Trouvé au cours du MBC2. / Caught during MegaBookCrossing #2 :)