#MargaretAtwood's #HandmaidsTale
Sometimes people should just shut up! 
"Clarifying the storyline for fans of her book and its television adaptation, author Margaret Atwood announced Wednesday that the handmaids in her best-selling novel The Handmaid’s Tale are supposed to be aliens. “
This week I’ve been listening to an audiobook of The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.
I still prefer The Handmaid’s Tale, but I love seeing Gilead from other perspectives in the sequel.
Here’s hoping the TV series based on it will be good.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #MargaretAtwood #Television #TheTestaments #TheHandmaidsTale
Volker Schlöndorff – „Die Geschichte der Dienerin“ (1990)
„A haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong… See it while it’s still allowed.“ Unter dieser Überschrift wurde Volker Schlöndorffs Auftragsarbeit in den USA vor 35 Jahren an den Kinokassen beworben. Was wussten wir damals schon von dem, was diesem Land noch bevorstehen sollte. (ARTE)
Victoria Amelina died in July 2023 after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. She was a journalist and novelist who documented the lives of women during the war, as well as working with children near the frontline. Now, her book, "Looking at Women, Looking at War" has been published. Here's an extract from the foreword by Margaret Atwood, published in LitHub. "Artists like Amelina help us to see, but also to feel. They serve as our eyes. Amelina’s talent as a novelist was of great service to her, and now it is of great service to us," writes Atwood.
#Ukraine #UkraineWar #VictoriaAmelina #WomensHistory #Books @bookstodon #MargaretAtwood
Tell Me Something Good - Orion Magazine
#MargaretAtwood #Poetry
https://orionmagazine.org/article/tell-me-something-good-margaret-atwood/
Margaret Atwood has written a memoir, which will be out on Nov. 4. Why? "My publishers made me do it," the Canadian novelist told @Vogue in a new interview about the book. "When they first proposed it, I said, ‘Oh, that would be so boring.’ I mean, I wrote a book, I wrote another book, I wrote another book…Who’s going to read that?” Here's more on "Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts," plus Atwood's thoughts on what makes a good biography, "The Handmaid's Tale" and its pertinence, and Trump's fixation with making Canada the 51st U.S. state. "I think it’s lovely that the United States has recognized its mistake and wishes to join Canada so they can have a king,” Atwood says, “but it wouldn’t be the 51st state. It would be 10 new states and two territories, which would mean that the Republicans would never get elected again. So he’s welcome to try.”
#MargaretAtwood #Memoir #Books @bookstodon #Autobiography #Canada #CanLit
the news today is like reading an #octaviabutler dystopia titled “TOLD U SO” with a forward from #margaretatwood
need everyone in the US to call their reps ASAP 
. don’t sit on this & wait. the time was yesterday & the second best time is right this minute. https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
The Handmaids Tale.
We watched the series, so I decided to read the book.
Well written, of course. Chilling.
If you’ve read it, what are your thoughts?
#Books #reading #MargaretAtwood #HandmaidsTale
I have sent or handed out this year's holiday cards, so I can finally share the poem I had printed on the front of these folded cards.
A beautifully poignant poem by Margaret Atwoord:
We hear nothing these days
from the ones in power
Why talk when you are a shoulder
or a vault
Why talk when you are
helmeted with numbers
Fists have many forms;
a fist knows what it can do
without the nuisance of speaking:
it grabs and smashes.
From the inside or under
words gush like toothpaste.
Language, the fist
proclaims by squeezing,
is for the weak only.
#whatToWatch #fascism #margaretAtwood https://www.threads.net/@theagendatvo/post/DDQTz8pAmQA
(Also airing on their YouTube page — Margaret Atwood: Democracy Under Her Eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hij5MbcICm4 )
Living right now feels Atwoodian.
Read if you dare:
Oryx and Crake.
The Year of the flood. Maddaddam.
I want to live in a small town with a wildlife fence to keep us from wandering about for no good reason and no single family homes, where we do permaculture and everyone shares.
Avatar has a pretty version, Atwood's MaddAdam a darker. LeGuin wrote the most realistic in Always Coming Home...
#Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools
#Beloved by #ToniMorrison, #NormalPeople by #SallyRooney and #SlaughterhouseFive by #KurtVonnegut, among books pulled
by Coral Murphy Marcos
Tue 12 Nov 2024 23.10 EST
"Florida’s department of education has released a list of more than 700 books that were 'removed or discontinued' from schools across the state after changes to a state law last year that allows parents and residents to challenge the content of #LibraryBooks.
"This year’s list, which has doubled in size from last year, includes titles such as Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
"The list comes after #HouseBill1069 went into effect last July, requiring school districts to set up a mechanism for parents to object to anything they consider pornographic or inappropriate.
"Since then hundreds of titles have been removed from elementary, middle and high school libraries. In Florida, 33 out of about 70 school districts #BannedBooks.
"American classics such as #BraveNewWorld by #AldousHuxley, #ForWhomTheBellTolls by #ErnestHemingway and The Adventures of #TomSawyer by #MarkTwain are among those that have been pulled. Contemporary novels by bestselling authors such as #MargaretAtwood and #StephenKing have also been removed.
"Members of the #FloridaFreedomToReadProject, a group comprised of public school parents, said the measure has led to an unprecedented rise in #censorship, mostly driven by conservative interest groups, and has limited students’ access to diverse #literature.
“'We believe in a fair, thorough, and public objection process that ensures decisions reflect the needs of each school community - not the broad, district-wide censorship we see today that’s inspired by the vague language in #HB1069 and ‘bad book’ lists like this one,' the group said in a statement.
“'Censorship is happening right here in Florida. Lists like this that include award-winning, #ClassicLiterature and books about #BanningBooks cannot be spun or shoved into a narrative about extremely targeted removals,' they added.
"#PENAmerica found that Florida and #Iowa recorded the highest number of book bans during the 2023-2024 school year, leading in the country with over 4,500 book bans in Florida and over 3,600 in Iowa. These bans have cost districts about $34,000 to $135,000 a year.
"A study on educational censorship in Florida found a 'climate of compliance, fear and stress' that threatens students’ academic performance and the well-being of both teachers and students'."
#spuntablu cerca di spiegare a #MargaretAtwood il significato di quello che lei stessa ha scritto. Segue ilarità
Per dettagli: https://www.bufale.net/spunta-blu-cerca-di-spiegare-a-margaret-atwood-il-suo-racconto-dellancella-segue-ilarita/
Margaret Atwood Enters U.S. Election Fray With Repost Of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Themed Cartoon
#Politics #ElectionLine #MargaretAtwood #Presidentialelection #TheHandmaid039sTale
https://deadline.com/2024/11/margaret-atwood-enters-us-electio-handmaids-tale-cartoon-1236164819/
#MargaretAtwood is probably one of the greatest living PHILOSOPHERS of current times.
It is a master stroke of genius or a horrible folly that she masqueraded as a science fiction writer the entire time.
is about 
![Imagine mansplaining "The Handmaid's Tale" to its own author
[Margaret E Atwood sharing Mike Luckovich cartoon showing red robed "handmaids" as depicted in "The Handmaid's Tale" going into a voting booth and shedding their robes and exiting as "regularly dressed women".]
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The author of that book uses Islam, not Christianity, an a model for her imaginary world. This is obviously true, as it resembles Islamic culture and law, and not Christian](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/417/423/429/402/011/original/3eaa87bbeb18ac88.png "Imagine mansplaining \"The Handmaid's Tale\" to its own author
[Margaret E Atwood sharing Mike Luckovich cartoon showing red robed \"handmaids\" as depicted in \"The Handmaid's Tale\" going into a voting booth and shedding their robes and exiting as \"regularly dressed women\".]
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The author of that book uses Islam, not Christianity, an a model for her imaginary world. This is obviously true, as it resembles Islamic culture and law, and not Christian")
