New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for September 05, 2011

handmaid’s tale. future conservative republican version of the usa. women lose the right to vote and everything else. they are used as baby factories. companies pollute and face no punishment. and, constant neverending war where in this story, americans are seriously losing.

…if America can’t at least make one half of one percent of us happy then we might as well be Britain…

Margaret Atwood signs books with some sort of autopen device so she should only be read on an e-reader.

Also helps explain “Blessed are you, Lord, our God, ruler of the universe, who has not created me a woman.”

Since Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer, I believe the book was set in ‘western society’, not the USA or Canada in particular.

prrdh – thanks to a woman (and a man also :-) ), you exist.

Very worth checking out – Alias Grace by Atwood. It has a ‘voice’ that carried me along, as Cry The Beloved Country did.

but a good book, nevertheless

When I saw the reference to Handmaid’s tale, I thought it must be one of Chaucer’s, but now checking my volume-there was none (just so many others that I did not recall that). I read very little of contemperary literature (as I’m into medieval studies) but the bits of summaries that I see onlne indicate an interesting read. I never heard the word Dystopianbefore today, but enjoyed Brave New World and 1984 back in the 50s when I was in HS -as well as Farenheit 451 which I would not have classified so. I have less appreciation of Bradbury than the others which I reread in recent years. I may read that novel if I have to take another tedious plane ride. Thanks, Pab.

I’d never heard of this book before; I thought you were making a reference to “The Help.” Thanks for giving me something new to check out.

For a real Pastis pun, there should also be real pain. “Oh you don’t always get what you won. But if you try real hard, you just might find. You get what you knead.”