By Margaret Atwood © 1998, Vintage; 1st Anchor Books edition 978-0385490818 311 pages If you haven’t yet read The Handmaid’s Tale, or seen the TV adaptation, you should—even if this is not your usual type of fiction. Even if you don’t usually read fiction. As the sixth of my six promised banned book reviews for…
Month: November 2024
Inter Alia: Terra
By S.L. Guerreiro © September 2024 285 pages ASIN: B0DHX8SK25 Inter Alia: Terra hooked me from the very first page. Character Alexandra Gauthier, linguist, is called upon to help interpret an alien message received on humanity’s only research station/orbiting hotel and resort. But almost from the start, things do not go according to plan. Alex…
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
By Judy Bume Delacorte Press, ©2012 ASIN: B007I5QMK2 Kindle File Size: 1515KB Paperback: 177 pages What a wonderful little book! While it seems simplistic, perhaps written for a middle-grade reader, Margaret’s story is deeper than it first appears. Its themes of puberty, menstruation and sexuality, and the exploration of religion have prompted bans in many…