Oh man. I'd been worried I was falling out of love with reading. That, unwillingly my tastes were changing from books to phone games. I've had difficulty reading more than 5 or 10 pages at once, for the last couple of books.
No more worries. I start a Margaret Atwood novel, and all of a sudden was sixty pages in. I only stopped as it was time to do other things.
I read a lot of genre fiction. Why did I not read Atwood twenty years ago?
[ The obvious answer is obvious, folks. And I won't deny it, but it's not like she's the first women author I've read, either. ]
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She is indeed phenomenal.
ReplyDeleteWhich one are you reading?
ReplyDeleteI (an avid reader most of my life) ended up taking an unwelcome fiction hiatus for more than a decade. Clearly I read Atwood too early to save me. Funny enough, I think hers was the last book I consumed with my previous life's gusto.
ReplyDeleteAtwood is one if those authors whose genre fiction is considered literary fiction, like kazuo ishigiro, david mitchell, and thomas pynchon.
ReplyDeleteYear of the flood. My first Atwood.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nichols Loved it! Toby is one of my all time favorite characters. But you haven't read Oryx and Crake? That's sort of the first in the series.
ReplyDeleteHuh. It seems so accessible!
ReplyDeleteI just read and loved her The Penelopiad - recommended!
ReplyDeleteAlso, huzzah for book reading! It has its own quality of attention I love.
William Nichols Yeah. You can really read them in either order. The first offer more background, and the stories starts to blend at some point.
ReplyDeleteThis was the only Atwood the library had on shelf. Everything else was checked out.
ReplyDeleteI assumed it'd be the least of her novels, and yet it's been than most of what I've been reading of late.