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... books of all time... but I don't think I'm QUITE ready for another re-read yet. Might be in for 'Atwood in April' (I have Blind Assassin and may have The Handmaid's Tale by then), The Three Musketeers, Crime and Punishment and Anne of Green Gables. Depends on my reading mood nearer ...

I've got a copy of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin if anyone is interested. (there are 37 on the wishlist for it. Condition: There's a little bit of light pencil underlining in the first quarter of the book & some writing on the first page after the cover, but it is in excellent ...

45> How much Atwood have you read? The early stuff is pretty light, but some of her novels are gorgeous: Cat's Eye, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, etc. And she's far, far, far more versatile than Hemingway. Realistic novels, dystopias, historical fiction, and as you mentioned, poetry.

... 0/10/09) 112. The Voyager Diane Gabaldon (10/12/09) 113. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb (10/13/09) 114. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (10/16/09) 115. The Well and the Mine - Gin Phillips (10/17/09) 116. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin (10/18/09) 117. Best Friend ...

... (boLT rev wandering_star) ............... In the Skin of the Lion by Michael Ondaatje (boLT rev Cait86) ............... The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (boLT rev Cait86) ............... Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (boLT rev Cait86) Prince Edward Island ............... The Catch ...

... others in the series. I was thinking that it would make a good series as I was reading it! #53~I'm planning on reading The Blind Assassin in April along with re-reading The Handmaiden's Tale, if I can wait that long. Don't let me turn you off to The Poisonwood Bible, I think I am more ...

... bad about the Kingsolver, I've had a ton of people recommend it and plan on reading it soonish. Are you going to read The Blind Assassin for Atwood in April? It is one of my absolute favourite books!

... the weather is bad for a change of scenery. Anyway, I scored four books for $4! Two trade paperbacks and two hardcovers. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I'm ...

I have to reread The Blind Assassin for my book group meeting on Thursday, but also started The Well and the Mine which was recommended by a lot of LT-ers.

... present for a friend (honest!) and instead left with nothing for her and 7 books for myself. Sounds about right, right? The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovski The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Darcy & Elizabeth, nights and days at Pemb ...

... seem to find my copy of The Handmaid's Tale anywhere, so courtesy of a "much needed" trip to Half Price Books, I now own The Blind Assassin and The Penelopiad. Never having read Atwood before, is there one I should read over the other?

... like, in no particular order: Maria McCann's As Meat Loves Salt Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin George R.R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Sarah Monette's Melusine & its sequels\ To honeydew: if you liked Twilight, you might like Wicked L ...

Thanks AA, that's good to hear. And I've got Book #2 on order. In the meantime, I'm starting The Blind Assassin by Marge Atwood. Not sure what to expect.

readeron, I enjoyed your review of The Blind Assassin - I've never read anything by Atwood, but am having trouble deciding what to start with, or if I'd really enjoy anything she's written. With your comments about approaching it as a mystery between the sisters, it sounds pretty appealing, so ...

Read The Blind Assassin. Excellent book, although it occasionally dragged. Atwood set up an intriguing mystery in the first few pages, then slowly unraveled the clues over the course of an entire family history. It's truly a heartbreaking story. I can see why this made the 1001 Books You Must ...

oops, posted in the wrong place :)

... TBR 42 Atonement 49 Life of Pi 50 The Feast of the Goat 52 The Devil and Miss Prym 54 White Teeth 63 The Blind Assassin 64 After the Quake 71 The Romantics on Mount TBR 77 Disgrace 78 Sputnik Sweetheart 80 Intimacy 81 Amsterdam 85 Tipping the Velvet ...

#28 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 4 stars 648 pages It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive ...

Read the Blind Assassin and Alias Grace first. I didn't love The Robbery Bride, I mean it's good but I really loved the first two I mentioned. Cat's Eye is also good. I would avoid Surfacing unless you really enjoy old style feminist literature.

... good stuff 35: Several books borrowed from friends who were in women's book clubs - so stuff like wide Sargasso Sea, The Blind Assassin, etc. All of Dan Brown's garbage. More mysteries and crap (a vast amount). Crichton and Orson Scott Card (argh). Hardy, Dickens, Conrad, other 19th Ce ...

I'm currently reading The Blind Assassin, Watermelon and Our Elizabeth.

... Not my favorite of hers. It was definitely un-put-downable, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did Oryx and Crake or The Blind Assassin. Part of the problem may have been that earlier this week I read The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Even though they were quite different books, I ...

From grelobe's library, I choose The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I've liked other books by her, but haven't read this one.

My first Margaret Atwood and I still have The Blind Assassin to read. 9-21-09 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood. 2.5 stars Margaret Atwoods novel takes place some time in the future. Religious sects are fueding and women are subjugated to lives with little "freedom to" but with many ...

4. Random TBR 1. Christmas Train 2. The Blind Assassin 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 4. The Princess Bride 5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 6. Good Omens 7. Odd Thomas 8. Colorado Kid 9. Duma Key 10.Intensity

I just finished The Handmaid's Tale and I should be reading my next Atwood The Blind Assassin but I need some time to digest Handmaid and write my review so I'm going to put TBA aside and start with my first B selection which happens to be an ARC from Barnes and Noble The Postmistress by Sara ...

I'm seconding the recs for Atwood's Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and The Handmaid's Tale. And, I would add Cat's Eye, which was great too. I hope you like some of her other work better than Oryx and Crake!

I'd go with The Handmaid's Tale. Yes, it's dystopian, but without all the wacky sci-fi stuff. I enjoyed The Blind Assassin, but I skipped over all the sci-fi-ish sections; I felt they distracted from the story. I also liked Surfacing when I first read it back in the 1980s. Upon ...

I have two Atwoods lined up. Currently reading The Handmaid's Tale and after that The Blind Assassin for my alphabet challenge. I did not know about Alias Grace till I read your thread. I'll keep an eye out for it.

... without this and I needed a tidier copy 3 books I have borrowed from the library in the past and were on my wishlist:- The Blind Assassin; Oryx and Crake and The Pillars of the Earth Also a copy of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - recommended by someone on LT (befor ...

Thanks Cait. I think I actually read The Handmaid's Tale a long time ago. Not completely sure. Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin sound the most interesting to me from those on your list. I enjoy books with interesting narrative structures. I will confess that I'm not the hugest fan of poetry ...

... section is named for a different quilting pattern, and the plot is sewed together like a quilt. Highly recommended. The Blind Assassin - my fav Atwood so far. Won the Booker Prize. Another long novel, with a very involved narrative structure. Basically, there are four narratives. 1: I ...

... Tale is quite good; her earlier stuff is shorter, while her more recent novels are a bit tome-like. I really loved The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, and Cat's Eye.

... to finish the book but think that there has got to be a better Atwood book. Some people have told me I should have read Blind Assassin as they consider it the best Atwood book ever. Since I have never picked up another Atwood book I wouldn't know. I do have Blind Assassin, Cat's Eye, ...

A lot of Margaret Atwood's novels are set in Ontario. I've read - and loved - The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, and Cat's Eye. As well, Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion is set in Toronto.

Eight Orange Prize Nominees (I chose from among a list of all nominated books, so many of these may not have won.) 1. The Blind Assassin 2. Brick Lane 3. Blue Flower 4. The Translator 5. Passion of Alice 6. The Night Watch 7. A Spell of Winter 8.

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

... Atwood fan because I wasn't head over heels in love with The Handmaid's Tale and everyone says that is her best. I read The Blind Assassin earlier this year and really enjoyed that one too.

I finished The Blind Assassin tonight and am beginning Money

... Tolstoy 17. Leaping Beauty by Gregory Maguire 18. Love and Other Natural Disasters by Holly Shumas 19. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 20. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult 21. Lunch Lessons by Ann Cooper 22. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ...

... a meandering plot or unnecessary tangents. Some of my favourite novels are long, such as The Wind-up Bird Chronicle or The Blind Assassin but sometimes I think these could be improved by a more rigorous editor. There are certainly parts of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle that I wouldn't miss too ...

... very original and interesting. It's just really preachy and the characters are all smarmy. It actually reminded me a lot of The Blind Assassin which was so well written and interesting, but the characters were all bleh.

Still reading The Blind Assassin

Finished Illywhacker last night, reading The Blind Assassin

... 42. Atonement 48. Choke 49. Life of Pi 52. The Devil and Miss Prym 54. White Teeth 56. Under the Skin 63. The Blind Assassin

Andrea - Both books were read as part of a group read here on LT. I enjoyed The Blind Assassin but I liked Alias Grace much more than that. The Coffee Trader was a mystery involving a coffee trader in Portugal I believe set in the 1600s. Unfortunately, I am one of those people who can't ...

I would be up for any of those, even The Blind Assassin, which I've read before, but long enough ago to make a reread attractive. I vote for Possession as I own the book, yet have never read it, but will defer to everyone else.

*66–68 I'd not made the connection between The Blind Assassin and Atonement, but I read the books years apart. Now that you mention it, I'm intrigued. I'll have to read Margaret Atwood's book again. I read the other one recently.

66: That's so funny, I read Blind Assassin IMMEDIATELY after Atonement. I remember turing to my husband and saying "Margaret, Ian called. He wants his convoluted plot twists back." Of course, he had no clue what I was saying. And I think they were actually written in the reverse order. But it's ...

Okay, I love Atonement, so this conversation just nudged Blind Assassin up my TBR pile.

2000's House of Leaves The Blind Assassin Middlesex Fingersmith White Teeth On Beauty Never Let Me Go Bartleby and Co The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Platforme Atonement Snow Kafka on the Shore The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime ...

Did anyone else feel like the Blind Assassin was very similar to Atonement? The era, the role of fiction, the duplicitous characters, the relationship of sisters - I thought these two books were oddly synchronous. Possibly it is all in my head.

I would encourage you to read The Blind Assassin as well. I actually didn't really like it, but it's really IMPRESSIVE.

#63 - Well, I humbly disagree. I haven't read The Robber Bride yet, but I am a big Atwood fan, and The Blind Assassin is my favourite of hers. I would definitely encourage people to read it!

... your own personalized map of Canada Ontario: Margaret Atwood's books -- esp. Cat's Eye, Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin and Alice Munro's View from Castle Rock Quebec: Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute Prince Edward Island: all the Anne of Green Gables books Nov ...

Don't read The Blind Assassin, it starts out okay, but gets confusing quickly. The Robber Bride is much better

Two longer ones I have to read in my categories: Possession by A.S. Byatt The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood I do have The Book Thief on my list, but that's one I need to get from the library, and there's a bit of a wait on that one at the moment with a guaranteed line after ...

This weekend I'm finishing up Epileptic and Giovanni's Room. During the week I hope to read Things Fall Apart and The Blind Assassin. Book Club on Tuesday night for Guernsey Literary.

I'll be finishing The Robber Bride today. I've really enjoyed this book, even more than The Blind Assassin, which I read earlier this year. Next up is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. I finally broke down and bought it due to all of the praise it's received here and from ...

... rest of the books in this series goes. The Name of Annabel Lee by Julian Symons Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

163. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood- I just dont know. I just. don't. know. So I've made a list of pros and cons: PROS: amazing technical ability on the authors part. really cool structure. great language, very cool writing. impressive control of the story. CONS: characters are all ...

Some of my favourites are: Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro the Island Walkers by John Bemrose and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston. I also really loved the first half or so of Fugitive Pieces but not the story in the ...

The Handmaid's Tale so far it's better than the The Blind Assassin

I've just started The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I really enjoyed her Handmaid's Tale, so I hope this one is as thought- provoking, although I've heard that the Handmaid's Tale is not like the rest of her writing. We'll see. Another attempt to like modern literature :)

116> Awesome! Thanks Flossie, for the recs! I already have Cat's Eye. I've been waiting for The Blind Assassin to become available to mooch, but I may just spend my gift certificate on it :) I have a 2 week reading vacation coming up, so I'm lining up my books now! I have The Robber Bride ...

... to "speculative fiction" (which I think I read somewhere is the definition she prefers). My personal favourite is still The Blind Assassin though, just squeaking ahead of Cat's Eye.

... Follet's Pillars of the Earth but haven't liked any of the other 2 books of his that I've read. I loved Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin but didn't think much of The Robber Bride (although it was very well written). I wonder how many lovely books I'm missing out on because the first ...

... this is only Atwood's second novel, and the reader can see glimpses of the author of masterpieces like Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin. It is always interesting to see an author's development over a body of work, but Surfacing unquestionably places me as a fan of Atwood's later novels. ...

... Orange TBRs: 1. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 2. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels 3. Hotel World, Ali Smith 4. The Blind Assassin, M Atwood 5. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters 6. The Accidental, A Smith 7. We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver 8. A Short History of Tractor ...

#102 SaraHope, I loved The Blind Assassin too but haven't read the other two. Onto the pile they go! I'm reading Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie and enjoying it. I mooched it because I'd seen it mentioned on here, but now I can't remember where. Someone else mentioned in a review that the ...

June 2nd The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - so far, as good as everyone has told me it would be. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - got in a mooch! Loving it so far. Dream-Maker's Magic by Sharon Shinn - the last in the series - an easy good read The Wish List by Eoin Colfer - if you ...

I finished The Blind Assassin, which was great. It reminded me a bit of two books that both came after (so rather those two books reminded me of this one)--The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. Obviously different books in many ...

... Canada in the 1800s was, to me, not up to the standards of the other two Atwood books I've read, The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin. I enjoyed the book, but expected more. I started The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, a gothic novel. Okay so far but I'm only about 30 pages in. T ...

... Canada in the 1800s was, to me, not up to the standards of the other two Atwood books I've read, The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin. I enjoyed the book, but expected more.

Just finished Of Bees and Mist. Really liked it. Just started The Blind Assassin. Not loving it as much as I'd hoped.

... e Wuthering Heights - one of my top 5 favourite books ever Pride and Prejudice - one of my top 5 favourite books ever The Blind Assassin - another Atwood masterpiece

Just started The Blind Assassin--I'm not very far in so I'm still trying to figure things out, but I hope I'll like it.

The Blind Assassin set A Trap for Fools and committed The Maine Massacre because the victims were Stupid White Men who couldn't quote any Sonnets from the Portuguese.

... important and difficult themes. A few have stayed with me, and are destined to become longtime favourites - books like The Blind Assassin, All the Pretty Horses, Any Known Blood, and, after today, The Cellist of Sarajevo. These are books that I will shamelessly push on my friends (and ...

... ***** 7. Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2009***** 8. Black Coffee-Christie A play that worked for its time. ** 9. The Blind Assassin-Atwood One of my favorites so far this year. ***** 10. Bruges and its Beauties*** 11. The Cat-nappers-Wodehouse Very funny. **** 12. Don't ...

... nd 5. Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass 6. Amerika 7. Animal Farm 8. Around the World in 80 Days 9. The Blind Assassin 1o. Brave New World 11. Breakfast at Tiffany's 12. Buddenbrooks 13. The Catcher in the Rye 14. A Christmas Carol 15. A Clockwork Orange ...

I should be able to participate a bit more in this discussion than the last one. While I enjoyed reading The Blind Assassin I just couldn't seem to write an answer to any of the discussions that made any sense.

... I'm pretty sure brian vaughan's work was inspired by her The Last Man. i hoped you enjoyed Good Omens. i'm reading blind Assassin right now. Cold Mountain is so cool, that way Frazier is reimagining the Odyssey during the Civil War.

... by J.D. Salinger 2. Christmas Train by David Baldacci 3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 5. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz 6. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk 7. Duma Key by Stephen King 8. Coraline by Neil G ...

... one, I seem to find others doing the same thing. For example, I noticed earlier in the year there was a group read of The Blind Assassin, which is on my list for this year. I'm not sure if LT just has critical mass or there's some kind of weird group think going on. Still, it's fun. Than ...

Margaret Atwood's book, The Blind Assassin, matches a lot of your details. It's a novel by a female Canadian author and was published in 2000. There is a husband in the book that does terrible things, and one of the early scenes in this book is a car crash. But it's the narrator's sister, and not ...

9. FINALLY finished The Blind Assassin. I enjoyed it, and it was well written...but...it just didn't grab me. I think the triple layered story was difficult. I would just be settling into one storyline and then I'd get tossed into a different one. Truthfully, I'd just rather have read the ...

... by Fyodor Dostoevsky 20. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous 21. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 22. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 23. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 24. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 25. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon ...

... are only $25!! A visit with my best friend Candice also means a book swap (as if I need more books!). I gave her The Blind Assassin, All the Pretty Horses, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, On the Road, Any Known Blood, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and The Read ...

... I have to try and remember! Here's my list: Plainsong by Haruf, Kent The House of Spirits by Allende, Isabel The Blind Assassin by Atwood, Margaret The World According to Garp by Irving, John Breathing Lessons by Tyler, Anne Rabbit, Run by Updike, John One Hundred Years ...

Here I go! BOOKS The Blind Assassin The Handmaid's Tale Emotionally Weird Pride and Prejudice 1984 Chocolat AUTHORS Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Kate Atkinson Joanne Harris Roald Dahl FOOD Sour cream enchiladas sushi garlic-y pasta lo mein ...

... 2666 - I want to decompress after Ulysses. I have read Possession - I enjoyed it very much. I did not like the Blind Assassin. As I mentioned earlier I would be up for the Plague. I am reading the Great Gatsby right now but should be done in a few days, then I am planning ...

... we'd have reading Kathy Acker! What about The Golden Notebook? or Byatt's Possession or Atwood's The Blind Assassin?--book w/in book w/in book w/in book; or David Mitchell's masterpiece, Cloud Atlas? However, the direction I really think we should go, ...

Haven't been around in awhile. Am finishing The Blind Assassin, Scoop, and Poet in New York. Soon to begin In Search of Lost Time due to insistent new friend who has taken me by the hand and encouraged my reading of it.

... I loved it. I'm currently reading THE LAST TEMPLAR by Raymond Khoury, which is another great book. I'm also reading THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood, and I find this one progressing much slower.

... * 66- The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay * 67- Life of Pi 68- The corrections * 69- The sea * 70- The blind assassin 71- Never let me go *

... available! In postscript, I've not moved entirely from Atwood, as a recent review has piqued my interest in reading The Blind Assassin.

16. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood I'll have to write a review and add it later this weekend since I'm a little short on time right now.

Received two mooches- Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. The LT group read of The Blind Assassin has made me a fan.

... book. I may go for a David Sedaris or something like it just to lighten things up a bit. With just one book between The Blind Assassin and Meany, I feel like my head is about to explode!

... these stories (a few are a bit out there for me though) but am having such a hard time putting down the Wally Lamb book and The Blind Assassin before this that I actually had to return the book to the library and ask them to please, pretty please let me check it out again. Luckily, there weren't ...

#253 Thanks for those book questions. Great fun. #255 etc. I have owned The Blind Assassin for years. And must confess I can't remember if I have read it or not. I'm guessing not. Def think I will now after that great review.

... So you're doing better than I would have, you finished Good Omens so quickly! Glad you liked it. I see you've read The Blind Assassin too, which I loved. I see what you mean about the tragedy and the sadness making you just want to give it up, but for me the noir feel was the hook, I ...

>246: I adored The Blind Assassin. All the different strands made sense, it wrung me out completely and I sobbed pathetically at several points. I can't tell you how happy it has made me to find someone who also loved it as I think the last 25 reviews I've read either said "meh" or "yuk" and I ...

Thanks for all the compliments on my reviews! I really hope you all enjoy The Blind Assassin as much as I did :)

Yesterday I read Atwood's The Blind Assassin, which won the Booker Prize when it was first released. I am now officially an Atwood fan and I cannot wait for her new novel to come out in the fall!

Well I've been one of those who keeps putting The Blind Assassin at the bottom of the TBR pile because it just has never seemed to appeal at the time I'm looking for something to read. But you've convinced me to get to it asap. Thanks.

Great review. I've never been tempted by The Blind Assassin and yet I generally like Atwood's writing. The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace I consider brilliant, and yet I was unable to finish Oryx and Crake when I attempted it, even though I gave it three seperate tries.

I loved The Blind Assassin, and I have become a major Atwood fan. I love the overall structure of the novel, with its many different narrative layers. I think they added to the meaning of the text - just like we have multiple voices, we have multiple meanings, which all, ultimately, lead us to ...

Book #42: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Attention all LTers: read this book. Don't put it on the bottom of your TBR, don't list it as a book to read next year, don't forget about it - read it soon. Do not despair when the plot seems to lag. Appreciate the beauty ...

Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors and The Blind Assassin one of my favourite books. I've read it only once (not longer after it came out), but I remember feeling quite devastated by it and I realise that my overwhelming feeling when reading Atwood novels (well, certainly also Th ...

I just finished a book for the group reads category called The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I read this for The Highly Rated Book Group. It could also be listed as a 1001 Book. This was my first book by Margaret Atwood, and she is quite an accomplished author. It has a multi-layered ...

22. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. This is my first book by Margaret Atwood. I had heard many terrific comments on her books, so I was glad when the Highly Rated Book Group decided to choose this book for the group read. The book uses a multi-layered story within a story approach that ...

22. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I read this book as part of the Highly Rated Book Group group read. I had been wanting to read a book by her for a long time, and this book was definitely well-written. It had a multi-layered story within a story approach that is quick to draw the ...

I am SO behind on The Blind Assassin - but I am glad you enjoyed it!

I just finished The Blind Assassin yesterday (so I guess I am the last to finish it!). I wasn't so sure about it when I first began but I loved it once I got into it. I am currently reading Voluntary Madness, The Red Convertible and am about to begin The Hour I First Believed. I read ...

10. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - I read this with a group on LT and absolutely loved it! It started off kind of confusing and jumped around a lot but, once I got into it, it was very easy to follow and a great read!

Yesterday I finished The Blind Assassin for the LT group read ( I may have been the last to finish!) and today I finished The Postman Always Rings Twice by one of my favorite authors, James M. Cain. Now I plan on starting Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Et ...

... Member Anne Enright – The Gathering Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin Ian McEwan – Amsterdam James Kelman – How Late it Was, How Late Kingsley Amis – The Old Devils Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s A ...

... month ago. I've gone back to A Prayer for Owen Meany (a re-read) after a hiatus to participate in the LT group read of A Blind Assassin. After that, I needed something completely different, so I read Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. That one was a little disappointed. Meany, ...

I'm not an "official" member of this group, but I just finished The Blind Assassin for another LT group read and loved it, so I'll join a group read on The Robber Bride.

... to mixing things up a bit. Now I'm back to A Prayer for Owen Meany, which I put down to join the group read for The Blind Assassin. It is one of my favorite books, and it is not disappointing on the re-read.

I had a response avaland posted here, but rereading ... I've decided to delete. I don't think anyone will miss the post. It's recoverable, if anyone wants it back.

I seem to recall quite enjoying The Blind Assassin, although it was the first - and only, to date - Atwood I'd read. I have The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake in the TBR box....

Scoop by Waugh, Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca

The mere fact that Laura's novel The Blind Assassin was published posthumously implies that Iris submitted it for publication. That alone would tell me that Iris does indeed have a romantic side. She says she prefers to be upright and contained, but I think she says that just because she's come ...

Just finished two - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (astonishing), and Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (good but not her best). teelgee and englishrose, I'm sure you'll like Bel Canto. It's a beautifully written book.

... (Isn't that ridiculous!) Still can't find Ender's Game. What is my deal? So, along with catching up on The Blind Assassin, I am going to start Good Omens, which my daughter assures me is the funniest book ever written. I am trying to read more recommendations from my ...

... in finding more of his Hinges of History series because of it. I'm not a very serious non-fiction reader. Started The Blind Assassin. Not a book to casually read a couple pages of during a lunch break, which is going to hurt my progress until I get far enough into it that I don't need ...

Best books of Jan-Mar, 2009: 1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 3. Fool by Christopher Moore 4. Blindness by Jose Saramago 5. Resistance by Owen Sheers I really can't say enough about American Gods. It's tentatively ...

... fame was a delight to read. And I needed a quick, fun one to follow up on TBK! I am still reading Cold Mountain and The Blind Assassin and now can start Pale Fire and see what everyone is so fired up about! I hope that everyone has a great Monday! --BJ Edited for typo. I really ...

14. The Blind Assassin (1001 List) "It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road." Despite the remarkable skill and cleverness Atwood displayed in this novel, I had to force myself to finish reading it. It was so sad. On to other books!

... paraphrasing). Mainly it seems to be the writing though. I find her quite an uneven writer myself: I love Cat's Eye, The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace, very much liked The Handmaid's Tale, but a lot of the others I've read have disappointed me (especially her earlier stuff).

Hmm...I'm beginning to wonder if I abandoned The Blind Assassin too soon. I read the first twenty or so pages and admit that the science fiction part threw me. Also..I couldn't quite figure out the format, and wasn't sure if I wanted to invest time in such a long book when I had so many others ...

... Mountain, which I am reading for the genre challenge. I think that I might finish that one in time. Also, still reading The Blind Assassin for The Highly Rated Book Group, but behind on that one as well. It is my first Margaret Atwood and pretty interesting. Now that my daughter and her ...

... for the genre challenge. Not sure if I will finish in time, but I hope to. My first priority is TBK. I am also reading The Blind Assassin for The Highly Rated Book Group. I am behind there, as well. (What, I ask, is the surprise in that these days!) Anyway, I did manage to finish a ...

... light reading; and Alias Grace to read after having read what I deemed Margaret Atwoods best since The Handmaid's TaleThe Blind Assassin.

Finished The Blind Assassin and started Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Hooked from the first page, as usual with her books. Just what I need right now.

#17 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood I just finished this book and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I'm not ready to write a review yet. I definitely need some space to think about this one! One thing I will say is that I don't really get why many people seem to consider it science fiction. ...

... in the poppy fields (I'm reading The Wizard of Oz to my daughter right now). Alas, this time the "poppy field" was The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. It took me quite a while to finish the book, and much like Anna Karenina, I felt totally submerged and unable to come up for ...

I finished The Blind Assassin around 1am and then I started Eclipse.

... for Waltzing with the Cat which I'm loving and almost finished. jhedlund - happy vacation! and keep going with The Blind Assassin - i found it a little slow to start off with, but it quickly picked up pace for me and I really enjoyed the book.

... olstoy The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry Illuminata by Marianne Williamson replaced with: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, since I finished it today and thus still within the first quarter!

I'm still plugging away at The Blind Assassin. It seemed like it took it a looong time to get going somewhere, but now I hate to put it down. The writing has been sumptuous all along. Trouble is, I'm on vacation with my two young kids, which doesn't leave much time for reading...

... following multiple plot strands can be more difficult, although I'm not finding this the case with my current listen, The Blind Assassin.

... it's also enough to make someone bypass a visit to the U.K. Bennett is a glass-half-empty kind of guy. I'm still reading Blind Assassin but I like to have two going at once. Haven't decided on what I'll pick up next.

I am still reading The Blind Assassin and Red Convertible and have also added a non-fiction book called Voluntary Madness about a woman who checks herself into three different mental health facilities to see the difference in care at each. I also need to get started on A Tree Grows in Brook ...

... A Romance by A. S. Byatt (5) 6. Watchmen by Alan Moore (5) 7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (5) 8. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (5) 9. The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett (5) 10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (5) 11. The Wordy Shipmates by ...

... Read Before You Die category. 1. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 2. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 3. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

... am in the process of creating my 999 challenge list. One of my categories is "Recommended." So, thanks! Also, I finished The Blind Assassin. #8! Not my favorite Atwood by any means, but she is always worth reading. Also, I finished #9 and #10! #9 is Great Expectations. It was my first ...

... trying to retrace the steps of author H.V. Morton, who wrote about English travel in the 1920's. Also still working on The Blind Assassin.

I am reading The Blind Assassin with the Highly Rated Book Group on LT.

I'm in Canada reading The Blind Assassin.

I'm reading The Blind Assassin with the Highly Rated Book Group as well.

... my reading time between The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. In the car, my audio book is The Blind Assassin.

I didn't have much time to read last week - :( I am still working on The Blind Assassin for the LT group read. I'm also planning to finish Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way we Feed our Children by Ann Cooper since she is giving a talk at our school district meeting this week. After that I'l ...

The Blind Assassin just is not calling to me, so I will sit this one out. I will be lurking though, and hope to join in on the next read. :)

... Any Known Blood and LOVED it! The Book of Negroes is definitely one that I need to read as well. Currently reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - my second Atwood of the year. I am really starting to enjoy her writing :)

I finished Home Schooling last night and started The Blind Assassin for the read here on LT. I also have another collection of short stories that I will be reading as well. And, at some point, I have to start A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for my RL book club.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by Hirsch, et al. Because I can read it only in small doses, I'm also reading The Blind Assassin by Atwood.

There are several group reads going on if you are interested. One that started last Monday is The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I haven't got my book yet, but hope that it arrives today. That is with the Highly Rated Book Group. Two others are Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (supposed to ...

I'm more than halfway through Entre Nous and I've started The Blind Assassin for the LT read.

cyderry, thanks for your review of The Blind Assassin, and the rest of you for your comments about Margaret Atwood's books! I've been watching for reactions to the group read. I read The Handmaid's Tale in January, didn't like it -- though I think her writing style is beautiful -- and ...

... book last summer but never got around to starting it now this group gives me the chance to do just that. I've never read The Blind Assassin before so I really don't know anything about the book except what may have been discussed over in The Atwoodians Book Group. It seems that I shouldn't be ...

I have a friend who just loves Atwood, collects her first editions and so forth. I tried The Blind Assassin because I heard it was sci-fi and I thought that was something I could latch on to. I didn't get past the first 50 pages. I did enjoy Good Bones and Simple Murders though. Like you, I've ...

... thanks again to all those here who recommended it. I am most likely going to finish Home Schooling today and start on The Blind Assassin for the group read here on LT. I have another collection of short stories that I have to read because it is due at the library soon so I will be reading ...

... try to see if this works: This is the link to the Blind Assassin group read. I tested it, and it works. Yay!

Abandoned : The Blind Assassin Author: Margaret Atwood pages: 63 I was really looking forward to the experience of this book group read, however, I just couldn't get into this book, so unforunately I put the book aside. I have tried to get through and managed only Sections 1 and ...

... are here -msg 147 but I've abandoned I'm Fine with God...it's Christians I can't stand and The Blind Assassin. Too many good books. I'm reading Dating Jesus, CS Lewis Mere christianity, Dante, and listening to another Donna leon...so I'm not slacking off, ...

Abandoned: I'm Fine with God...It's christians I can't standby Bruce Bickel. and Abandoned #2: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Well this has not been a great week. I hardly ever abandon books, but to give up on 2 back to back in one week is unheard of. I bought the Bickel ...

... could become a real favorite. On the otherhand, I just dropped out of the Highly Rated Book spring read, the book was The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I had never read anything of hers and I'm not sure I ever will. That book was way to weird for me. I only got as far as page 63 ...

... my TBR list. I keep going to buy them and picking other things up on a whim that happen to be nearby. I went to pick up The Blind Assassin and the Austen shelf was nearby. I ended up buying Lady Susan and Sandition while I was there.

... and I had commenced my own re-read of it this week, but decided to put it down temporarily to join the LT group read of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I wanted to read that book this year anyway, and the opportunity to share the experience trumped a re-read - even one as ...

> 56 I have The Blind Assassin TBR. Maybe joining The Highly-rated book group will spur me on to get round to reading it !

>28 Tutu, I entirely agree with you. I am not sure about Atwood myself. I couldn't get into Cat's Eye but I am hoping The Blind Assassin will be better. We are not compelled to read anything. I thought that it sounded interesting and might generate a lot of discussion. I am not so keen on Sci Fi ...

I'm reading The Blind Assassin as well. Not bad! I like The Handmaid's Tale more. I'm also reading Great Expectations and Treasure Island. I'm not sure how I began reading three at a time.. but I like the variety!

I've been enjoying The Blind Assassin. Oh, and there's a group read of it that's just about to start in the Highly Rated Book Group.

I'll do The Blind Assassin, The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye or Bodily Harm if we read it between April and August.

I'm on Disc 5 of The Blind Assassin, read by Lorelei King.

I've joined the Early Spring Reading Group so I'm also starting The Blind Assassin (It's really a bit weird)

... I want to read category. Tina convinced me (she really twisted my arm) to join the Early Spring reading Group for The Blind Assassin and since it was an award winner I moved that one into my award winner category. I found out that Laurie R King has a new Mary Russell mystery ...

>89 Cait, The Highly-Rated Book Group is starting a group read of The Blind Assassin on Monday 9th March. Come over and join us. - TT

Thanks for letting us know. I was at a book sale downtown today and spotted the Blind Assassin for $1--I know I said I was going to pass on this one, but figured this was a sign, so consider me in.

Just reached a minor milestone and started my 150th book from the list, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I'm also part way through The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

The Blind Assassin on audiobook. The Yiddish Policemen's Union and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle in paperback. #118 - Bolano is unfortunately ineligible for the Nobel Prize, as it is only awarded to living writers.

The Blind Assassin on audiobook. The Yiddish Policemen's Union and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle in paperback.

Just started listening to The Blind Assassin read by Lorelei King. I'm aware the novel has multiple plot strands, so I'm hoping these won't be took difficult to follow.

Are you going to read The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood with the Highly Rated Book Group? (I saw that you read The Coffee Trader.) I think it starts Monday, so I better get the book! --BJ

... won awards, and she is one of Canada's more famous authors. I think the Highly Rated Book Group is planning on reading The Blind Assassin starting on Monday (though I could be wrong about that), and The Handmaid's Tale was good, especially if you like dystopian novels (like 1984, Brave ...

I am planning to read finally a book by Margaret Atwood for The Highly Rated Book Group called Blind Assassin. Have you read that one? I have seen that lots of people like that book Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, so I need to check that one out. Is the Your Inner Fish ...

... Scott Fitzgerald Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates Any Known Blood - Lawrence Hill Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

... to join this group, after hearing so much about The Coffee Trader over at the 75 Book Challenge - and I already own The Blind Assassin! I am looking forward to starting it. I am currently in the middle of Atwood's Alias Grace and really enjoying it, so another Atwood sounds great :)

... your profile page about the group reads. Let me know if you have more questions. :) #4 I still have to get my copy of The Blind Assassin. I am looking forward to that book. :) Have a great weekend! --BJ

... of dreading it - I'm not a huge Atwood fan. However, I am in the middle of it right now, and totally LOVING it! I have The Blind Assassin on my TBR pile, and based on Alias Grace, I might have to move it up on the list :)

Thanks for all the advice on Atwood's books. I will definitely check them out. I reserved the Blind Assassin at my library and am also very interested in The Penelopiad. I made it through the Odyssey and the Iliad a few years back so the Atwood book sounds really interesting. Thanks for the ...

... but as I had a similar experience to yours, I'm not sure if I'm up for it yet. If you're interested in reading Atwood's The Blind Assassin, it's going to be featured as the next read for The Highly-Rated Book Group. The link is

... of The Odyssey, told from Penelope's point of view (and that of the hanged maids). It's wonderful. Let's see... The Blind Assassin is also really good. I also liked Oryx and Crake, but I think I'm in the minority on that (I like science. I like dystopian novels about the evils of ...

Ordered The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood for a book discussion last night. Sounds quite interesting.

... Highly Rated Book Group read? If not, I thought you might like to join us for our next group read which I believe will be The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I think that it starts on March 2. I don't know how to make a link, but I think that if you go to my profile page and look at the ...

... too, and I also completely loved it. Based on recommendations I've gotten from others, I'm planning to try Alias Grace or The Blind Assassin next.

... in crime novels such as those of Patricia Cornwell and Sara Paretsky. I've just borrowed a copy of her reading The Blind Assassin for an imminent vacation, which I'm looking forward to a lot (both the holiday and the book!).

... isn't the right word, exactly. It's just more of an academic report than a popular or literary book. I enjoyed The Blind Assassin, but it's not my favorite. Have you read The Penelopiad yet?

... a lot of fun. The web of flowery spies was less involved than in previous books, and thus easier to follow. Book 17 is The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Atwood is very hit or miss for me; I'm afraid this one was a bit of a miss. This book is told by Iris, who posthumously published ...

... 4) Emma by Jane Austen (4) Middlemarch by George Eliot (4) The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel (4) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (4) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (4) The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (4)

... I last checked. 57 and growing! Vintage-books will be posting details of the next group read shortly. We have decided on The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Looking forward to another exciting and fun-fiiled group read starting Monday March 2nd. - TT

... Middlesex -- Jeffrey Eugenides 11) The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen 12) Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk 13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood 14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami 15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee 16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan 17) The Hours — ...

Sorry, more: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

... all the Margaret Atwood chatter, I'll chime in with my enthusiasm for her! My personal favorites are The Robber Bride and The Blind Assassin. Also, I see that you just read The Iliad; are you planning on reading / have read The Odyssey, too? If so, I'll recommend Atwood's The Penelopiad, ...

... that was your first Atwood! What a lot of fun you have ahead of you. My personal favourite order is probably Cat's Eye, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, but the gaps between are very small... She has a new one out this year too, doesn't she? Also completely ...

I LOVED The Blind Assassin but I've forgotten the sci fi bit. It's the only Atwood I've read. Now I have to go and have a look to see what I've forgotten...

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9. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. cerievans1 in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : AlcottAcre's 2009 Reads, Take 2 (Feb 2, 2009, 5:16am)

... the first Atwood novel you have read, but you have a real treat in store! She has written some fantastic fiction including The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale. Ceri

The Blind Assassin is my favorite Atwood, but I think I need to reread it because it's been several years now! Sorry that I have nothing to add to your discussion :(

Hi--Just finished The Blind Assassin and cannot find any discussions of it here. I had some questions & thoughts about it for any fellow readers out there. Any thoughts on how Richard died? The likeliness of Laura committing suicide?

Water for Elephants has the same type of photographs at the beginning of each chapter that The Stone Diaries does. The Blind Assassin contains newspaper articles as well as a few other documents within the story. We made a list of epistolary books in anther thread just this week.

... finished 10/23 7. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt finished 9/24 8. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 9. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro NOTES: - Finished Disgrace and I understand the visceral reactions. I need to ...

... Kicker of St. John's Wood by Gary Wolf 15. Communicate by: Rudolph Verderber and Kathleen Verderber 16. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 17. The Preacher by Julie Fritz 18. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 19. The American Promise: A His ...

#37 I've started the blind assassin countless times but never seem to get very far! I've just finished White Tiger which I thought I should read as it won the Booker. Surprisingly, I enjoy it immensely, much more so than most Booker winners. Aside from that, I'm reading lots of Susanna Gr ...

... (finished 9/20/09) 5. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (finished 3/2/09) 6. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (finished 10/3/09) 7. Land’s Polaroid by Peter C. Wensberg 8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9. The ...

Thanks kidzdoc and FlossieT for those recs....I actually own The Blind Assassin and was thinking of using it for my CanLit category, but since I have about a million CanLit options, maybe I will move it into the Booker category. I've heard good things about The Life of Pi, so maybe I will try ...

... in terms of subject matter - you need a strong stomach). Re. your Booker winners category, I'd put in a plug for The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood, Staying On - Paul Scott, and Possession - A.S. Byatt (although I would recommend skim-reading a lot of the pastiche Victorian lit.. ...

I am currently reading The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood. I am finding this to be a slow read, but it is interesting. I don't know if I will finish it this week, but am determined to get through the novel.

... 7/09 6. TBA 7. TBA 8. TBA 9. TBA Booker Prize Winners 1. White Tiger – Aravind Adiga - FINISHED January 5/09 2. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 3. TBA 4. TBA 5. TBA 6. TBA 7. TBA 8. TBA 9. TBA Contemporary Fiction (2000-present) 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khal ...

Banned Books from My "100 Banned Books" 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

... something had to be category number nine. Historical fiction it is. 9.1 As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer 9.2 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 9.3 Englandsfarere by Sigurd Evensmo 9.4 A dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett 9.5 Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian 9.6 ...

... Charlotte Bronte *October 12 5. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse *May 26 6. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood *March 26 7. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood *July 14 8. The Comfort ...

... -- very good (4 stars), thank you everybody who encouraged me to read it. It isn't my favorite Atwood (that is, so far, The Blind Assassin, but it was enjoyable).

I'm trying to decide whether to start The Assassin,(wrong touchstone came up) a graphical novel. I believe a movie is coming out this month from the legendary 14 book series.

So far this year, these are my top favorites, in order: 1. The Blind Assassin 2. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse 3. Journey to the Stone Country 4. The Painted Veil 5. Birdsong Other standouts, in no particular order: Hotel du Lac The Lizard Cage ( ...

#55 I loved The Blind Assassin too. After a run of man books, I'm reading a book I can put in this thread - All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West. I really can't believe I haven't read this, or anything else by her. It's such a fast read (no doubt helped by the enormous margin at the ...

#55 I very much enjoyed The Blind Assassin. I found it slow reading, (or maybe I just read it slowly-I remember it as a good summer read!) but very engrossing. I'd read Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale for a class and very much enjoyed that too. Right now I'm half way through Doris Lessing's The ...

I have just started The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Has anyone else here read it and did you enjoy it?

... ions 1. Farthing by Jo Walton. Group Read -- SciFi 2. The Coffee Trader by David Liss. The Highly Rated Book Group 3. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. The Highly Rated Book Group 4. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. Group Reads -- Literature. 5. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon ...

... book. Book from a country I hadn’t read: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie Best multi-layered novel: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Best graphic memoir: Persepolis 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi Best short story collection (3 way tie): Interpreter of M ...

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood; read when first released

... slund Powder Monkey by Paul Dowswell Primavera by Mary Jane Beaufrand The Playmaker by J.B. Cheaney Assassin by Lady Grace Cavendish I tend to lean toward YA novels, and sadly it was a sparse year in historical fiction for me. Better luck next year!

... and the Wardrobe The Shining Interview With the Vampire The English Patient The Poisonwood Bible The Blind Assassin Mystic River Cold Mountain The Bone Collector The Secret Life of Bees Secrets of the Morning ...

... Remains of the Day When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka War and Peace Half of a Yellow Sun The Blind Assassin The Girls by Lori Lansens Music and Silence - Rose Tremain The Secret River = Kate Grenville Graphic novels/memoirs: ...

... books to be read. The last bought always seem the most tempting to read first! #1 Teelgee and #2 Wonderlake: I loved The Blind Assassin. Hope you enjoy it!

... Seriously. I'm interested, coz I hate to feel I'm missing out on something.... I have read The Handmaid's Tale, and The Blind Assassin, and I was underwhelmed by both of them.

I read Blind Assassin and Cat's Eye a long time ago. Perhaps in 2009 I can re-visit this.

> 41 Flossie, not having read Slaughterhouse Five it will make no difference to my reading of The Blind Assassin! Thanks for you comments on Cat's Eye. Sound like my kind of book and really looking forward to reading it and TBA. - TT

... from your recommendation Flossie it sounds like one I would really enjoy and will probably get to it next year. I agree The Blind Assassin was fantastic.

... for it to the strong theme of being miserable at school and socially awkward ;-) which it covers very well indeed. The Blind Assassin is fantastic, if strongly reminiscent of Slaughterhouse Five in its cutting between sci-fi and 'real-life' narratives that shed light on each other in ...

>36 len, I haven't read any Atwood yet - on my 2009 list is The Blind Assassin and Cat's Eye. Have heard a lot about The Blind Assassin but nothing about Cat's Eye. Has anyone read it? Any comments? - TT

I'm still reading The Blind Assassin but I'm hoping to finish it this weekend. My next read will be The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, a bit early I know but I have to return it to the library.

... (so about 8 years ago). Maybe I was a little too young and just need to try it again? But the second Atwood that I read, Blind Assassin, was one of those books that reminded me why I love reading. It spurred a reading binge that has lasted about 3 years now!

... whymaggiemay, I loved The Things They Carried, #43 torontoc, Ditto for The Secret River and #51 Teresa40, ditto for The Blind Assassin. #67 cameling Thanks for the recommendation of The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- it's been on my TBR pile for a while now. #75 Booksloth, As I ...

... yet. Alias Grace was a little disappointing to me also, too flowery, whereas I Liked both The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin. Good luck on your search for The Postman Always Rings Twice in all my Flea Market searching this summer I didn't find a single copy and had to ...

Have nearly finished The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp and will then make a start on The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Hi blondierocket. Excellent choices for your first time authors category. I've read and enjoyed The Blind Assassin, Life of Pi, Middlesex, Atonement, and The Poisonwood Bible. I plan to read The Eyre Affair some day soon because I've heard great things about it, and if The English Patie ...

... made a start on What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn. The next few on my list:- The Rabbit Factory - Marshall Karp The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood The Christmas Train - David Baldacci

... Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Middlesex (2003 Pulitzer) by Jeffrey Eugenides Atonement by Ian McEwan The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood American Pastoral (1998 Pulitzer) by Philip Roth The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Color Purple (1983 Pulitzer) ...

... on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Rabbit Factory - Larry Brown The Christmas Train by David Baldacci The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood Hopefully a few more as well.

#125 - The Assassin - Stephen Coonts

... on the Canadian Bookworms thread - I haven't read many Canadian books but loved The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Blind Assassin. That's a shame about A Good House but it cost all of $2 and I'll read it some day...just not in a hurry. I'll wait for a week or so to see if ...

... Wilderness Tips is one of my favourite short stories and I re-read it often. I loved Oryx and Crake too though, and The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride and The Handmaid's Tale. You can't go wrong with any of those books, even if they're re-reads. I haven't read some of her ...

I enjoyed Atwood's The Blind Assassin. Never got round to The Handmaid's Tale, although I've owned a copy for years.

... challenge this year :) I especially like your Ball and Chain list, but I'll warn you: The Time Traveler's Wife and The Blind Assassin will fly by! I adored both of those - they were both books that reminded me why I loved reading SO much, if that makes sense. I'll enjoy following your ...

I idly picked up The Blind Assassin and read the blurbs and put it back on my shelf. Then I picked up The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.I couldn't put it down and read 108 pages, last night. What a fascinating little character Mark Haddon has created in Christopher. Will ...

... n 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby Award Winners 1. The God of Small Things - Booker Award 2. The Blind Assassin - Booker Award 3. Life of Pi - Booker Award 4. The Magnificent Ambersons - Pulitzer Prize - finished 5. The Color Purple - Pulitzer Prize 6. An ...

... n 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby Award Winners 1. The God of Small Things - Booker Award 2. The Blind Assassin - Booker Award 3. Life of Pi - Booker Award 4. The Magnificent Ambersons - Pulitzer Prize - finished 5. The Color Purple - Pulitzer Prize 6. An ...

... Pearl Science Fiction 1. Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan 2. Time Machine 3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 5. 1984 by George Orwell 6. Animal Farm by George Orwell 7. Slaughterhouse 5 8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 9. Faren ...

Ha, just finished The Blind Assassin. Did it remind anyone else strongly of Atonement? The elderly female narrators, world wars, sexual tensions, family lies, social conflicts, and the little literary twists they both shared made them feel similar to me, like book siblings.

I just started The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I'm not in love with it yet, we'll see if it grows on me.

RL has been interfering a bit with my reading lately . . . how dare it! I did finish the audio of The Blind Assassin and think that one day I should probably read the book properly. I must stop listening to abridged versions as they leave me feeling somehow dissatisfied and a bit 'cheated ...

... (a bookring), The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones, which is a 'dip in and out of type of book', and The Blind Assassin on audio.

... at some point. But this is not something LTers should worry about:-) I see a fair amount of Alias Grace and Blind Assassin hardcovers (either regular ones or Book-of-the-Month Club editions at library sales if someone is in need. Also Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride ...

... by Sir Joshua Reynolds on the front cover of Mrs. Thrale and her Daughter Hester. Speaking of Margeret Atwood: The Blind Assassin Because it’s by Margaret Atwood And it won the Booker prize and its on the 1001 Books list. Northern Lights by Philip Pulman. Because I ...

My top three are The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, and Surfacing. I've flaked out on the last two group reads as well (sorry!!!), but I really hope to join in this time. Avaland, thanks for helping to keep this board moving along :)

... so I'm up for anything. Of the two you mentioned, I already have Alias Grace (along with Cat's Eye, Dancing Girls, The Blind Assassin and Penelopiad) but I am not averse to buying/mooching something else as well.

... and Nationalism In terms of long term failures/unread classics: Paradise Lost has defeated me a couple of times & Blind Assassin is on my ought to but don't have the willpower list Shakespeare has never worried me, I've read half a dozen or so of the plays and some sonnets but they ...

... all her major novels and the only one I did not enjoy was Oryx and Crake Too futuristic for my taste. My favorites are The Blind Assassin and Cat's Eye. #154 - I recently read A Suitable Boy and loved it. It goes faster than its bulk would have you believe. Also just finished Affin ...

160. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 161. Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch 162. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow 163. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter 164. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

... Skin Ignorance Nineteen Seventy Seven Celestial Harmonies City of God How the Dead Live The Human Stain The Blind Assassin After the Quake Small Remedies Super-Cannes House of Leaves Blonde Pastoralia Timbuktu The Romantics Cryptonomicon As If I Am ...

... first heard of it. I am surprised I haven't read Margaret Atwood before now, but am glad I started! I suppose I'll try The Blind Assassin after I finish this one, as I've heard great things about it. Karspeak--we should discuss our thoughts once we're done with HT!

The first I read was The Blind Assassin and I really enjoyed it - it was literally one those books that made me go out and buy everything that I could find by Atwood. I hope you enjoy whichever you decide to read :)

... so reading through the thread was delightful. I wanted to add that I loved Fall on Your Knees (read it twice) and The Blind Assassin, and enjoyed Oryx and Crake a great deal. I thought Unless was excellent, but had to stop reading because it upset me so much, as a mother and as a ...

... genres that there really is something for everyone in her writing. I recommend to start with The Handmaid's Tale and then The Blind Assassin, which is also absolutely wonderful.

... They're my favourites of her books that I've read. They're also the most science-fictionish of her work. I also liked The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride. Hope that helps :-)

I just finished Atwood's The Blind Assassin last weekend on vacation. Great book, the SF parts in it were well done, and the characters were complex. There are a few story lines running through this, so it's not to light a read. The pacing is good so it was hard to put down, it just required ...

... reading as fast as usual thanks to school work (plus the decision to read a 500 page book after a 700+ page book) 10: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood My girlfriend loves Atwood, so I decided to dive on in. Good book, enjoyed the story within the story within the story plot. F ...

#21 DOBooks, that's quite a haul. I loooooved the Blind Assassin and might even re-read it...perhaps after the TBR glacier melts a bit. I did well today and went to a lovely second-hand bookshop and exercised restraint. Then I went into Borders and bought the Edwardians by Roy Hattersley, ...

... ield Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood For BookMooch: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (3 copies) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer ...

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

... Corelli’s Mandolin 100. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 101. Memoirs of a Geisha 102. Sputnik Sweetheart 103. The Blind Assassin 104. Ignorance 105. Life of Pi 106. Middlesex 107. Kafka on the Shore 108. Unless 109. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ...

... books to my inventory including Brick Lane which has recently been turned into a movie, a really nice hardcover copy of The Blind Assassin, Princess in Waiting from Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series, and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan among other things! http://bookmooch.com/m/inventory/ ...

... for me eventually. I loved the gentle feminist rants. Five stars. Trivia: Unless refers to Margaret Atwood's book The Blind Assassin twice but never by name and uses the word lolloping to describe a personal characteristic just like Atwood had.

Welcome amanaceerdh - The Blind Assassin is well woth reading imo. I have just finished The Siege by Helen Dunmore. I found it very chilling. A very emotional read.

... read all of the books on my list. my only problem is going to be deciding which one to read first. i have been putting off the blind assassin for a while because last time i picked it up i couldn't get into it, but perhaps i will try it again since everyone has given it such rave reviews!

I've just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. 4 stars-although I want to give it 5 for cleverness, it loses a star because I'm too impatient. I may reread some time. amanaceerdh I have a few of those books to read, so look forward to your comments.

96. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, 2008 Booker Prize winner 2000, Orange Shortlist 2000 Iris and Laura are sisters. The book opens with Laura driving off a bridge. Iris has married futilely to save her father's business empire. Laura, a fey child-woman, had been involved with a ...

Hi everyone@ I am a new member and just wanted to say that I loved The Blind Assassin and just finished a one-hour read that piques the sensabilities called The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady. I am set to reread Cape of Storms because it has been a while and I loved this little fable. Howev ...

Congrats on achieving your goal! I, too, enjoyed, no, loved The Blind Assassin I think though that hearing it on audiobook really helped. Atwood has a truly unique approach to character development. I did not enjoy Oryx and Crake but I think I might give it another go, because I don't remember ...

55. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. What a brilliant storyteller Atwood is.

Halfway through The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Enjoying it immensely.

... un Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List by Patricia Schultz The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood Archangel (Samaria, Book 1) Jovah's Angel (Samaria, Book 2) The Alleluia Files (Samaria, Book 3) Angelica (Samaria, Book 4) Angel-Seeker (Samaria, Book 5) by Sharon Shinn were almost waiting for me today. One of the ...

And Be a Villain Rex Stout The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Thief of Time The Traitor by Harry K. Thaw (Wrong touchstone; it's in my catalog) B is for Burglar

I can't narrow it down below four: The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood Half of a Yellow Sun -- Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichi Mudbound -- Hillary Jordan The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell

... good, while also serving selfish desires. Last note, if you get this far. :-) I read THT near the same time I read The Blind Assassin. I believe they are both about the oppression of women by a society’s rules and regulations. The latter had a more powerful effect on me, however, ...

I really liked Oryx and Crake, but most of my friends don't, because of the sci-fi quality. I adored The Blind Assassin -- best read of the year so far. I liked The Lovely Bones, but would not consider it directly spiritual, based on my reading. I don't know what your criteria are for this ...

And I agree with teelgee - The Blind Assassin is wonderful, too. ;)

I just read The Blind Assassin and thought it was outstanding.

... and was thinking about trying to tackle a few more orange-related books this month. Billie Morgan is one, maybe The Blind Assassin. I've not read enough Margaret Attwood.

... hospital across the street. Proceeded to buy everything I could find in a short time: Taliesin - Stephen Lawhead The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond Showboat - Edna Ferber - this is really ...

... time, I read so many good books. The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro Small Island -- Andrea Levy The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood Half of a Yellow Sun -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell Mudboun ...

... This is my first non-dystopian Atwood novel, having previously read Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. I tried to read The Blind Assassin when it came out, but it came due at the library before I had a chance to really get into it. Anyway, my point is that I really didn't know what to ...

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385475721.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> 47. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. (5/5) I'll try to catch up on notes/reviews soon.

38F.) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood An excellent story, a mystery of sorts about family secrets and love. I wouldn't really call it a page-turner; in fact, I often was so interested in what happened next, or the answer to some riddle or another that I would get impatient with the ...

I'm reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - great book. It's been deposed from the top of my TBR pile many times before, so I'm really glad to finally get to it.

... oking The Time Traveller's Wife -- loved loved loved it I've also tried to read Fugitive Pieces, The Underpainter, The Blind Assassin and The Accidental (hated the writing style of that one), but couldn't get into any of them.

I started The Blind Assassin last night - finally got past the point where I was scratching my head and wrinkling my nose. Now I'm intrigued!

... Mudbound and An Artist of the Floating World and The Story of Lucy Gault in the last few days. Tonight just started The Blind Assassin. Been able to cross off quite a few from my TBR list!

... career!! I was previously a teacher, counsellor, and SAHM. So exciting! So...the two books I've read. The first is The Blind Assassin. I can't believe how slowly I read this book. I kept reading and re-reading passages to soak up the brilliance of her similies, and her spot-on ...

The Blind Assassin, B is for Burglar and The Nanny Diaries came to work with me today in my brand new Arkansas Razorbacks tote bag, purchased from a flea market while on vacation (it's SO gaudy, I love it) so I will have an assortment to choose from when I finish Neverwhere this afternoon.

I like some of her books very much -- The Edible Woman and The Blind Assassin especially. Other times, I can't stand them -- like Oryx and Crake. I'm about to start Moral Disorder. Love her, or hate her, I feel drawn to read just about everything she writes.

3. The Blind Assassin. Well, that is one hell of a book. It's long, and I need to be reading shorter books if I'm going to hit 50, but I think I can forgive Atwood for that. I don't think I have ever read a book that combines multiple narratives so effectively: an ongoing journal-like story ...

... - looking at the list of books I share with dancingstarfish, the only one that says both "bathroom" and "caliph" to me is The blind assassin.

... finishing up Counting My Chickens by The Duchess of Devonshire. Will move onto two other review books and then either The Blind Assassin or Half of a Yellow Sun.

The Shoes of the Fisherman Morris L. West Biblioholism by Tom Raabe The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Busman's Honeymoon Dorothy L. Sayers The Constant Gardener John Le Carre

... me too - it felt like I was reading an A-level textbook. Conclusion: tries too hard, goes on too long. Next: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

... Harm (1981) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) DONE! Cat's Eye (1988) The Robber Bride (1993) Alias Grace (1996) The Blind Assassin (2000) Oryx and Crake (2003) The Penelopiad (2005) SHORT FICTION COLLECTIONS Dancing Girls (1977) Murder in the Dark (1983) Bluebeard's ...

... just didn't do it for me, which was disappointing since, as I've already mentioned in this very thread, I positively LOVED The Blind Assassin. My H pick will have to go to the other H I've read from the list, but one that I think is seriously underloved: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness ...

... 05/01/08 Snow falling on Cedars by David Guterson. Slow, hard to get into, took a long time to read. 66. 05/05/08 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood . Really liked it. Love her writing style. 67. 05/08/08 Bridget Jones's diary by Helen Fielding. Needed something light ...

... and 2003 - and was clearly more impressed than I remembered... I picked it as one of my best five books of 2001 along with The Blind Assassin, Look to Windward, The NI.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy and James Ellroy's LA Quartet... (I still do best of the year lists, but on my blog now:

... -I think- Wilderness Tips that had a nasty caricature of a prominent Toronto writer.) I would read Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and Moral Disorder-really great linked short stories.

54. The Assassin - Andrew Britton

... this a lot, but can't remember details anymore) White Teeth (really stuck with me--I thought she showed such promise) The Blind Assassin (marvelous) Ahab's Wife (I liked this one, although I know reactions are mixed) Niagara Falls All Over Again (good, quirky book) Bel Canto (lovel ...

... of the book. That said, the descriptions of Venice are vibrant and enjoyable- great sense of place. Now I'm continuing The Blind Assassin.

... that Avaland has listed: Alias Grace, Fugitive Pieces, Larry's Party, The Underpainter, The Poisonwood Bible, The Blind Assassin, and The Hiding Place. I guess I know what I should read next!

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood. Ms. Atwood has few peers. I loved this book and am still thinking about it. There was so much there, besides a story within a novel within the novel. Unforgettable characters, a touch of the gothic, a slowly revealed story....

... here in the states. It was a personal book-of-the-year that year and converted me to a forever Kate Grenville fan. Blind Assassin was also a personal book-of-the-year for 2000. No many authors can pull off that story within a story within a story (although John Crowley did it a few ...

Touchstones are being difficult! From the 2001 list I've read The Blind Assassin and The Hiding Place. I have The Idea of Perfection en route to me from Paperbackswap and was pleased to see avaland's very positive comments on it elsewhere on LT!

2001 longlist Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin - shortlist Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place Jill Dawson, Fred & Edie - shortlist Meaghan Delahunt, In the Blue House Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai Leslie Forbes, Fish, Blood & Bone Esther Freud, The Wild ...

#20 dczapka. I'm glad you recommend The Blind Assassin, I bought it to read this summer and am really looking forward to it. #18 summerbis. l really liked The Bell Jar also.

I'm with fasciknitting on The Blind Assassin, which I would love to discuss.

... to read it with a group of obsessed Atwoodians :p As for the next round, I'd love to re-read Cat's Eye, Alias Grace or The Blind Assassin (which is the book that started my love of Atwood). Yay!

"Let's say we're stuck with the sins of the fathers." The Blind Assassin He was away a lot, she said, so what did he expect?

My own personal B novel is Margaret Atwood's excellent The Blind Assassin. It's a bit on the long side, but it's amazingly deep and complex -- and not only that, with its novel-within-a-novel, it's like two books for the price of one!

... Atwood's writings. I am looking forward to reading more in the near future, starting with The Handmaid's Tale. I read The Blind Assassin last year and that was my first Atwood book. I liked the book except for the science fiction element (I am not a SF fan - in any way, shape or form). I ...

... where I was assigned The Handmaid's Tale - though I didn't actually read it. I read my first Atwood book, The Blind Assassin, followed by Penelopiad, last fall and enjoyed both books. I have The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace on my bookshelves, waiting to be read. L ...

"You're not taking me seriously." The Blind Assassin Was it a respectable hotel or, because rooms were scarce, a cheap dive, a harbourside flophouse?

Still in Canada. Reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. How apropos. I don't know what it is about her writer's voice, but I'm always impelled forward. I'd like to rush through the end of the The Tipping Point, which I had left up here over Christmas. I've also started The English Patie ...

"They're for the huddled masses. Popular on the covers though--" The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood "The children? What children?"

Just started The Blind Assassin.

Oops! I did read The Blind Assassin but typed in the wrong title. - #62 Sticking with the Cs....How about Catch 22 by Joseph Heller?

... Middlesex -- Jeffrey Eugenides 11) The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen 12) Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk 13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood 14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami 15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee 16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan 17) The Hours — ...

I think we skipped M 61, with Marjea's suggestion of The Blind Assassin. To try to pick it up and tie it together, I've read The Blind Assassin, as well as The Awakening and enjoyed both. How's that for continuity? And now back to dczapka's suggestion of Remains of the Day, which I ...

... wonderful The Remains of the Day. EDIT: To remain fair, and in keeping with the spirit of the game, I've also read The Blind Assassin, which is one of my all-time favorites, so the tie-in still works.

I have read Pride and Prejudice! I suggest my all time favorite The Blind Assassin, who's first?

I am now reading Sputnik sweetheart after finishing The blind assassin. I enjoyed the blind assassin and found the ending to be very touching.

I finished The blind assassin and am now reading Sputnik sweetheart.

... yet That makes eleven so far. The ones I am currently reading are Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson, for Memoir, The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood for New Authors and I will be starting my ARC of The Venetian Mask by Rosalind Laker as soon as it arrives.

I am reading The blind assassin. I am not sure if I am enjoying this multiple story structure - as I am really enjoying one of the stories and find myself being annoyed when she goes into the other story. I am about half way in - so we shall see how the ending goes :)

I am still reading The blind assassin

I am reading The blind assassin.

... by Willy Vlautin. When that journey is over, I'll move back to Canada and rejoin Iris Chase and her reminiscences in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I'm glad I have come across this group - will certainly follow up some of the books mentioned and look forward to traveling ...

... my shelves. The funny thing is, I keep picking out books that I hadn't planned on - rebelling against my own lists! The Blind Assassin was at the very back of my double-stacked shelves, and somehow taunted me into picking it up. Sigh. Do you think you'll pick up Anand when you are done?

... finished In the forest by edna o brien and enjoyed that. I am now reading The essence of the thing and then will read The blind assassin - a book I am looking forward to.

... on my shelf this morning, having heard and read so many great things about it. Now I'm glad I left it there and picked up The Blind Assassin instead. What are your ideas for the "best darn book"? I vote for that, to redeem your Mediocre March somewhat. No one should read five mediocre ...

... work and I sooooo wanted to enjoy all of it! I did read The edible Woman and barely finished it and I had to give up on The blind Assassin.

... a nice, spicy chai tea, thank you. Atwood is my favorite author and I obsessively collect her novels. My favorites are The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale, and Alias Grace. I also really liked Surfacing, because I loved the language of it all; I couldn't get over calling canned ...

... to the others mentioned: The conjuror's bird by Martin Davies The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The Sister by Poppy Adams The House at Riverton by Kate Morton I love this style of writing, so I am curious to ...

So far this year, I've read: 1. The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood 2. Blasphemy, by Douglas Preston 3. Faint Praise:The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, by Gail Pool 4. Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut 5. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. Gossip of the S ...

Hi all I'm Charlotte, living in London. The Robber Bride is my favourite Atwood, followed by The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace. I think I've said somewhere on a previous thread that when reading Atwood I feel entirely immersed in the world she creates. When I have to stop reading (like ...

My favorites would probably be The Blind Assassin, The Famished Road and Possession, although I really enjoyed both Peter Carey novels also. The Booker winner is not something I've felt compelled to read over the years, so I'm basing my favorites on the dozen or so off the list I have ...

... venture into her poetry or non-fiction. My favourite Atwood? Probably Cat's Eye, followed by The Handmaid's Tale, and The Blind Assassin. I enjoyed the short stories in Moral Disorder, but I find her occasional writing much harder going (recently read The Tent, and have been ploughing ...

15) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Absolutely love this book--my love for Atwood has cemented.

... haven't read most of these, but two of my favorites are The Siege of Krishnapur (although his Troubles was better) and The Blind Assassin. Interesting that Paul Scott won for Staying On, and not any part of The Jewel in the Crown. I don't think they'll pick either of these as "the ...

... God of Small Things 1998: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam 1999: J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace 2000: Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin 2001: Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang 2002: Yann Martel - Life of Pi 2003: DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little 2004: Alan ...

... in The name of the rose too! Might buy a copy of The sea, the sea - gotta love the ones on more than one list! The Blind assassin, The god of small things, Amsterdam and Life of pi are also on both booker and 2001.

... in The name of the rose too! Might buy a copy of The sea, the sea - gotta love the ones on more than one list! The Blind assassin, The god of small things, Amsterdam and Life of pi are also on both booker and 2001.

I am reading The Blind Assassin, The Great Gatsby and Three Lives right now.

... by Gertrude Stein. I don't get it. At all. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton. Love Wharton. For Pleasure: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Islam by Karen Armstrong.

... Gordon The Other Side Mary Gordon Tales of Burning love Louise Erdrich Voyage of the Narwhal Andrea Barrett The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood

... to Oryx and Crake on audiobook, and really enjoyed it, but I could definitely see how it would be tough to read. I ADORED The Blind Assassin which made me get Oryx...Assassin is such a unique premise. I'd love to know if anybody else enjoyed it as much. Again, I did listen to it, and I think ...

1. AWARD WINNERS The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai The Gathering - Anne Enright Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Vanish - Tess Gerritsen T ...

... but not my favorites of James' books, so probably not in the running for best of January. The Giver was also great. The Blind Assassin was definitely not a favorite, though--it was my third attempt to read the book, and I managed it and even enjoyed it, but it was not to the level of a ...

... The Handmaid's Tale. After reading the analysis & my prof's recommendation, I bought it & fell in love. I am not reading The Blind Assassin, which is amazing & absolutely cannot wait to read more.

I've read The Handmaid's Tale but really fell in love with Margaret Atwood after reading The Blind Assassin I love her written style and take on subjects i.e. he consequences of religious extremism gone too far, in The Handmaid's Tale. I don't know, just something about her books keeps me ...

#5 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Wow. This book is stunning, a brilliant piece of work. I found myself unable to put it down, and I regretted that it was finished when I turned the last page. It will take something very, very good to top this as my #1 book of 2008. My review is

... scary even. Some more years, and I read Oryx and Crake. I really liked it. Then Alias Grace. Marvelous! Now The Blind Assassin. Amazing! I love this writer! Why did it take me so long to realize it? I am starting over at the beginning! I am reading it all! Perhaps this is ...

I gave up on The blind assassin and am now concentrating all my efforts on tristram shandy and finding that I am quite getting into it. On my tbr pile are Melmouth the wanderer, the monk, love in the time of cholera, montesquieu, and evolution of the grand tour Hmm where can I get ...

81-- I started blind assassin but thought it trash and returned it to the library. Still working on snow.

... on the Prize Group if anyone is interested in commenting. http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=552 Loved Blind Assassin but, then again, Atwood could scribble on a lunch napkin over coffee and I'd love it:-) amandameale, how does that Sacks title differ from his previous ...

I finished rereading The Blind Assassin and am planning to start The Bridge on the Drina - both for book club. I'm also a little ways into The Hand of Ethelberta. #39 - what did you think of the movie? How did it compare to the book?

... a book! and then started The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which looks more like a famine. Glad to hear raves about The Blind Assassin as it's fairly high on Mount TBR.

#81 mrsradcliffe: I agree with #81. I found that I got used to the dual storyline in The Blind Assassin and that the effort was worth it.

>Sussabmax Thanks for the comments. Yes, I am going to leave The Blind Assassin for a while... but I will get round to it at some point as it is one of the 1001 books you must read before you die :) I quite like to read two books at a time: a big long one for at home, and something a bit ...

Maybe they are including marital fidelity in their definition of chaste? So, are you going to come back to The Blind Assassin later? It is a good book, I just don't think you should read it directly after The Handmaid's Tale.

#81 mrsradcliffe - I read The Blind Assassin several months ago and had to be very patient through the "sci-fi" parts. It all comes together in the end, but it was a major distraction for me. Stick with it though! I finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist yesterday, and now I will be reading O ...

... it was awful so I had to leave it (although I hate doing that, for this book I had to make an acception.) I also started The blind assassin and so far so good, yet confusing to have a story within a story. Has anyone else read this? Any comments?

I just finished The Blind Assassin. I think you should skip it--I liked it, but Handmaid's Tale is much better, so it would suffer in comparison, I think. But, that's just my opinion...

... Here is the short version. Finally, a book completed. Should go faster now that I am not feeling so slumpish. 1. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Good but not great. Sad. A bit overwrought in the middle, but enjoyable. Not Atwood's best.

... I hope to finish The Handmaid's Tale this week, but think I might have a break from Margaret Atwood before tackling The Blind Assassin.

I am currently reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I love the story within a story & Atwood really does know how to write.

Another copy of The Blind Assassin. Speaking of Atwood, who's read the somewhat more obscure The Edible Woman? There's a great scene in it where a bunch of grad students sit around and dissect Alice in Wonderland at great length-- until one annouces that it's currently fashionable to view ...

I started The Blind Assassin tonight.

I purchased The Blind Assassin and For Her Own Good the other day.

I have The Blind Assassin and really need to read it! *heaves it onto the TBR pile*

I have The Blind Assassin and I have a copy of Dune! (I'll be back with a few lines) Color - dark blue underwear - black (I'm with Busifer on this one.) number - 7, except right after I saw the movie "23", for the next week I turned every number into 23, the math teacher in me was ...

... blue eyes. Young male in a hot place...that's all I remember. I really like 33, but it's beyond me as to why. The Blind Assassin I see that it's by Margaret Atwood but it sounds like something from Robin Hobb. (touchstones are touched...)

citygirl, I don't have The Blind Assassin, but now you've given me another book to add to my wish list. (Sigh. Just when my husband tells me that I have to cut back on my book spending.)

... jokes, but very much enjoy dirty jokes and literary jokes. I do not have a copy of Dune handy. One of my books is The Blind Assassin. How many of you guys have that one?

... all I have to do is go read! But I have one question: Can a book only count in two categories? For example, I hope to read The Blind Assassin. It would count in 1001 Books, Big Books, Canadian Lit, and Books from My Closet. I can't use the same book four times though, can I? Thanks for the ...

... are futuristic Murakami in general is sort of fantastic, though I'd classify him more like existential sci-fi noir The Blind Assassin has a sci-fi story in story Cryptonomicon is more along the lines of cyberpunk Stranger in a Strange Land The Once and Future King Gormenghast ...

I went to Barnes & Noble to prepare for a long car trip home. I got For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich & The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I am dreading 19 hours in the car a lot less now!!!

... enjoy for the 3 hour ride :) I'm currently on p113/ 324~ 35% through Unfortunately the next on my TBR pile is huge The Blind Assassin; mind you maybe I should skip to another author- next then would be The book of Illusions

... I think I'll go with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Haven't read a mystery in awhile. I'll get to The Blind Assassin shortly after.

... but I'm torn on what to do. I've read The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and am currently reading The Blind Assassin I'd be interested in exploring a parallel character or a contrast to Ainsley from The Edible Woman. Can anyone think of any similar or polar opposite ...

#26 Happy New Year, citygirl! I second elvisettey's vote for The Curious Incident, which I also loved, but Blind Assassin, amancine's choice, is on my list of books to read in 2008. Whichever you decide on, enjoy!

... I am trying hard not to fly right through all my Christmas books, but it is hard! citygirl - I would definitely go with The Blind Assassin, especially if you have not read it yet. I love that book.

I have a choice. Hmmm. Perhaps a suggestion from these? The Blind Assassin - Atwood Mask Market - Andrew Vachss The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time - Mark Haddon The Stolen Child - Keith Donohue ETA: note re touchstones, never seen this before. I'm getting additio ...

... The Marriage Diaries by Rebecca Campbell Notes from the Underbelly by Risa Green 8 Atwood Books Alias Grace The Blind Assassin Cat's Eye Edible Woman Oryx and Crake The Penelopiad Surfacing The Door 8 Written Before 1950 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton ...

I guess my absolute favorite is The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. It made an impression that will never go away. Jane Eyre is also one of my favorites.

... Jane Eyre and The Confessions of an English Opium Eater, both of which I've already read) I also picked up a copy of The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood, just because it was a nice edition. I'm tired just taking these all up to the cashier--let alone reading them all between now ...

I spotted The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood being read by a co-commuter on the bus. I have this on my TBR pile myself, but think I might leave it for 'home' reading as it's a bit of a whopper!

I would recommend either Oryx and Crake or The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. If many in your group have read A Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake would be an ideal choice.

I have The Blind Assassin TBR too, I added it to my library Sep 30, 2007...

... Arthur and George by Julian Barnes The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

... is as stunning as her others. Also on deck: The Master and Margarita, The Old Man and the Sea, Elmer Gantry, The Blind Assassin.

FINALLY finished The Blind Assassin, which I really enjoyed. (It took me 5 days because I've been tired and because my husband's best friend had the audacity to get married at the weekend.) I'm now about 4 chapters into Liza's England by Pat Barker, which seems fabulous so far.

... stupid o' clock last night to finish The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood which I loved. I'm now about 50 pages into The Blind Assassin (also by Margaret Atwood) at which point it seems to have just about got going (having been quite bitty before that). I like it so far.

I'm still working on The Blind Assassin, which I'm really enjoying.

I've been sick, so I'm still working my way through Floater and The Blind Assassin.

... and Persuasion Anne Tyler: Back When we were Grownups Sarah Waters: Fingersmith Margaret Atwood: Blind Assassin Annie Proulx: Accordion Crimes Wallace Stegner: Crossing to safety Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: A Midwife's T ...

... Truant, House of Leaves Irie, White Teeth Iris Chase and her sister Laura (I still can't decide whose side I'm on), The Blind Assassin

... story. But, this idea of "classic" sci-fi gets used in other books to great effect, for example: Slaughterhouse five, or The Blind Assassin. They imply that the sci-fi aspect is primarily a creative setting for a story. The "science" is more about internal consistency than realistic ...

Unless you Repent The Virgin Suicides The Devil's in the Details The Blind Assassin Interview with the vampire

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (my fault) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (okay--I'm just kidding. don't go calling the authorities.) Let's try this again: Kaffeehaus : Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafes of Vienna, Budapest, and Prag ...

... sci-fi or overtly romantic but otherwise... let's see what I liked best and probably wouldn't have read unless awarded - The Blind Assassin in 2000 by Margaret Atwood The God of Small Things in 1997 by Arundhati Roy Last Orders in 1996 by Graham Swift Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 19 ...

50. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Highly recommend! This has moved to the top of my list as best book read this year. Wonderful story. At first it seemed simple and I thought it was good but why did it win an award, I wasn't sure it really deserved it but by about page 250 I ...

... in Toronto just a little before the time in which I grew up in that same city. (Hi, chamekke, message 9!) I also love The Blind Assassin, The Penelopiad, and Moral Disorder. My sister and I have fond memories of Lady Oracle. I'm embarrassed to say I taught Surfacing to Grade 12 En ...

... China (Red Azalea) for the second time in three books, after a slightly disappointing stop in Port Ticonderoga, Canada (The Blind Assassin).

Good Guys, Bad Guys Bad Behavior The Blind Assassin Les Fleurs du Mal A Multitude of Sins

... of Khabul. I am also going to include this on my Book around the World challenge. Then I am off on holiday with The Blind Assassin together with eight more lighter books. These are Getting Rid of Matthew The House at Riverton Kate Morton How To Talk To A Widower The Me ...

The Tax Inspector The Historian Madam Secretary: A Memoir Geisha Secrets: A Pillow Book for Lovers The Blind Assasin

In Ticonderoga, Canada with The Blind Assassin. Have to confess to not being blown away so far (100+ pages in).

... library with rare or signed books. So I was blessed for my four years of hard work when they gave me the best gift ever: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (signed) Sophie's World: a novel about the history of philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (first edition) Angela's Ashes by Frank McCou ...

>199 ang19 I recently tried to read The Blind Assassin and had some trouble really getting into it. I got about 100 pages in as well and put it down. I'm planning to pick it back up and your comment has definitely encouraged me to do so soon. Today I realized something kind of funny. I'm ...

... Post-Birthday World and Tropic of Cancer... so far. >22, 24, 25, 48, et al -- it's been several years since i read The Blind Assassin, but have been thinking lately of giving it a re-read. the first time i picked it up, i couldn't make it past the first 100 pages for the life of me... ...

Message #22 - mrstreme -- I read The Blind Assassin a few years ago and although I don't remember all the details of the story do remember it being an interesting yet bizarre story. Hope you enjoy it. This week I am reading the 9th book in the Stephanie Plum series To The Nines by Janet Evan ...

>>>48&49 (hazelk&lindsacl) - I finished The Blind Assassin. I didn't like the sci fi parts either - I thought it took away from the story. Otherwise, a good book. I did figure out the end by about page 200 though.

>22 & >24 (mrstreme&lindsad) - I enjoyed The Blind Assassin but, unlike a pal of mine, didn't suss out the secrets till near the end. I got impatient with the sci-fi storytelling sections but generally liked the novel a lot. Clever how Atwood interweaves isn't it.

39) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (review)

#22,24 Just thinking about The Blind Assassin brings up nice reading memories (does that make sense?). I don't know that I liked one narrative over the other, but I liked how they were mixed, and how one hints at the other. I'm about 3/4 through To Ride Hell's Chasm. It started really nicely. ...

>22: mrstreme, I felt the same way about the different narratives in The Blind Assassin ... good luck with it!

I am half-way through Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, which I hope to complete this weekend. Not quite sure what I think of this book - I like Iris's narratives better than the Blind Assassin parts (so far). After that =, I will either dive into Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow ...

... Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin by Margaret Assassin

The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood

... reading many of your reviews. {I was one of the Atwood fans who stood up during your The Robber Bride review -- try The Blind Assasin or Cat's Eye.} I am trying to make my way thru 1001 too -- ~85 or so read so far. Pride and Predjudice and Mansfield Park are my favorite Auste ...

... a writer who "steals" her best friend's story. Shadow of the Wind about an author who is buying back his books. The Blind Assassin has a novel within the novel and the death of an author. Language Visible is a study of the letters of the alphabet. Haven't read it yet, but am ...

... Repeats: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (surprise, surprise) The Secret River by Kate Grenville The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro But I'd also add: Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry The Testament of Y ...

Here's my list before I change my mind! *sip* Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood Idea of Perfection or The Secret River, Kate Grenville Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *sip, sip. puts glass down* Parable of the Sower, ...

I'm off on holiday for a week, and am taking these books with me: The Blind Assassin which I'm about halfway through. Book number four is Frank Herbert's The Great Dune Trilogy, which is consistently ranked as a great science fiction book in the research I've been doing. It's a heavy tome, ...

... inspired to look for more by Margaret Atwood, when I have read more of the books that I have. I think I'll start with The Blind Assassin. It sounds very appealing. Thanks very much for the suggestion!

You and seem to have similar tastes - and similar reactions to books: the first novel I read by Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) made me go out and buy half a dozen more. As you asked for suggestions, I shall be bold enough to make one: I think you might enjoy New Grub Street by Geo ...

I haven't finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood yet, but am also going to start reading Qualitative Research Practice, which is useful for my work...

"I'm not as swift as I was." The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood

... lives on the Toronto Islands. Others are set in the Ontario wilderness, like Surfacing, or in southwestern Ontario, like The Blind Assassin. Atwood grew up in Toronto, and so did I, so I enjoy Atwood's references to places I recognize, and characters that remind me of people I have met. I ...

I got the following books for $5 (for all three) today: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Hi there, I'm starting my 50 book challenge by reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood...

... for the recommendations, Jhowell. I have The Handmaid's Tale on my TBR stack for June, but I definitely want to read The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride as well. Atwood is just a tremendous author.

#37 - Alias Grace is one of my favorite books of all time. I also highly recommend Cat's Eye and The Blind Assasin if you haven't already read them. My favorites by a favorite author. I am currently reading The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, which was recommended by someone here ...

I just finished The Blind Assassin this afternoon and loved it. Am about to start Ishmael. I think. I don't know how I came to own it - it has been on my bookshelf forever, but I'm just really looking at the cover. It's not another Celestine Prophecy, is it?

... China Mieville, Thomas Hardy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I'll be back with more) FAVORITE BOOK(s): The Blind Assassin, Perdido Street Station, The Talisman FAVORITE DRINK: So hard to pick just one...Vodka & Club or Dry Champagne FAVORITE CHEESE: Tripl ...

... of the following (hopefully to complete all three listed):- 1) Catch-22 2) The unbearable lightness of being 3) The Blind Assasain =)

... these: The Lovely Bones, The Secret Life of Bees, Gilead, The Kite Runner, Middlesex, The Time traveler's Wife, The Blind Assassin, Bel Canto. I've tagged them "Explores Aspects of Love." because they are all kind of suffused with some kind of overriding "love". Sounds a bit ...

... right. I'm going to finish it and will try not to concentrate on who's who unless they become significant. I started The Blind Assassin this week to take a break. Has been on my shelf for four or five years. Pretty good, so far. Different for me.

the blind assassin by margaret atwood, great stuff

... at a respectable clip. Other classics I plan on getting to in the near future are The Iliad, David Copperfield and The Blind Assassin. Not sure if Atwood qualifies as classic yet, but that's only a matter of time. Anything written by her that I have yet to read is automatically on my T ...

... pamuk 7. midnight's children by salman rushdie 8. bildnis eines unsichtbaren by hans pleschinski 9. the blind assassin by margaret atwood 10. my life as a fake by peter carey 11. wilde reise durch die nacht (wild ride through the night) by walter moers 1 ...

... Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 38) Lamb: the gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend by Christopher Moore 39) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 40) Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler 41) Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow 42) Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik 4 ...

13. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwoood "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, sole surviving descendant of a once rich and influential Ontario family, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is ...

I'm reading The Blind Assissan byMargaret Atwood.

I just started The Blind Assissan by Margaret Atwwod yesterday, I'm about 60pgs into it and is very enjoyable.

For those who like The Blind Assassin, especially the story within a story within a story aspect, you might like John Crowley's Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land. At it's core is a wonderfully fabricated, gothic Byron novel, which is annotated after his death by his estranged daughter Ada Lov ...

... Tale and Oryx and Crake, although there is the fantasy story at the center of the story within a story narrative in The Blind Assassin. Her use of a dystopian future as setting, imo, plays out the "what if" question and can perhaps be interpreted as a warning of sorts. Certainly, this ...

I first read Alias Grace which I loved, but cannot remember how I discovered it. I read The Blind Assassin when it came out and have recently purchased Cat's Eye. Apparently some of her books are sci-fi so I won't be reading those.

... Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund about a week ago, so I've now going back to read it. Next, on my TBR tower is The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

I picked these up at Barnes and Noble today: The Pact a love story by Jodi Picoutlt The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

... by Jonathan Franzen 557 pages. And if I can manage it: The Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams 839 pages The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 513 pages. The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice 1182 pages. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 569 pages. The Da Vinci Cod ...

I have only read one book by Margaret Atwood so far, which is Oryx and Crake. I have had The Blind Assassin on my bookcase for around a year but sadly I have yet to even open it. I have heard many great things about it though.

Finished the Blind Assassin a few days ago, and I think the blurb I mentioned in #72 is far more pertinent than I realised. I will avoid disparaging the Great List again! Having said that, I'm not exactly reading Slow Man on the basis of this blurb: "... is Coetzee trying ...

I am currently reading The Blind Assassin by Atwood, and enjoying it so far. I certainly would never have touched it had it not been on the 1001 list. The write-up in the 1001 book itself was not particularly compelling, however: "Through Iris' story, and her intricately captured ...

... who is completely dismissive of SF is Margaret Atwood. Yet, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and even parts of The Blind Assassin are SF. This rejection is what led me to find out the "why" of that.

... look at life (the nature of creativity, specifically) and is listed among my "life altering" books. My second favorite is Blind Assassin. Unfortunately, I don't care too much for the dystopian books -- but then I don't care for utopian books, either, so it's probably just the genre. That ...

... I thought she was quite elitest and her books would likely be fairly inaccessible reads. My first Atwood read was the Blind Assassin which I loved! Then I read Oryx and Crake which I found to be a bit SF but fascinating. Then I read the Handmaid's Tale. I do find her books have this ...

... off a story within a story within a story as he did in Lord Byron's Novel (although Atwood did also it successfully with The Blind Assassin). I thought the contemporary storyline the weakest. And I thought the Byron novel well done and a great, gothic story in itself.

... the year they were published): Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 2002 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2000 Life of Pi by by Yann Martel 2002 The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass 1985 Apparently I'm running about four to six years ...

... the mad touchstone Arthur and George by Julian Barnes 1599: A Year in the life of Shakespeare by James Shapiro The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Dirt Music by Tim Winton Lots of stuff appearing on touchstones which I haven't entered.!

... not talking about light novels/detective stories etc but more serious lit. For example, my friends picked up on things in The Blind Assassin that I never did.

... snobbish side of Canadian literature writers we're seeing here. Same as The Handmaid's Tale (definitely SF) and the Blind Assassin which has SF portions in it. Yet she has always denied that she's an SF Writer. The Edible Woman is the other one of hers that I liked a lot, and one ...

... nobody else has visited this thread! I am about a third through Lady Oracle and I am really enjoying it. Much like The Blind Assassin, there are many stories and I sometimes forget that scenes I remember are from the same book. That phenomenon always makes me feel I've had a rich ...

I liked The Blind Assassin also, but my all time favorite is Cat's Eye. It taught me something about being a creative person that changed my life. I've also read, Oryx and Crake, (most recently) and Handmaid's Tale, but in all truth, I didn't care very much for them.

I loved, loved, LOVED The Blind Assassin. Loved it!

... returned from our group's first book discussion. (see 5 above). A Booker Prizewinner was cut down to size. The book was The Blind Assassin. Two of the 6 only got to about page 30. Three of us finished it and of those only two enjoyed it. None of us thought the third strand in the book, ...

... Handmaid's Tale will always be my sentimental favorite, simply because it was my first introduction to her work, but Blind Assassin is also very high on my list of favorites.

My favourite is the Blind Assassin. But I find things to love about almost all her novels. I do prefer the funny, satirical ones like the Robber Bride over the darker dystopias like the Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake.

... enjoy her stories about women more than her dystopia fiction. I particularly liked The Robber bride and Cat's eye and The Blind assassin, but I don't enjoy Oryx and Crake much.

My sentimental favorite would be The Handmaid's Tale because of how the story spoke so powerfully (and personally) to me at a certain time in my life. Since that time I have come to appreciate it in a more literary way and as a powerful warning message that I still consider revelant today.

... of Earthsea etc. Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter Raymond Feist's Magician Robin Hobb's Assassin etc. L. E. Modesitt's The Magic of Recluce - although some of the setup here is a whole bunch of people crash in a spaceship and become magic wielders due ...

... Then more and more titles popped up, and my list runeth over. So, here are ten of my top novels (no order, of course): The Blind Assassin the Feast of All Saints The Chronicles of Narnia (listed as one book) The Dogs of Babel The Moor's Last Sigh The Wings of the Dove (also ...

Am reading Alice Munro short stories for the first time, having just finished & enjoyed The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Despite its length, I couldn't put it down.

I think The Blind Assassin by Atwood was one of the best books I've ever read. I started reading Possession a few years ago, but lost interest with it. I may have just been at a restless point in my life. I do, however, plan on attacking it again.

Yes, I look at other posts which sometimes give me ideas. Currently reading The Blind Assassin and very much enjoying it.

... my book club. (Ack, I hate that term--what do other people use? I said book group before, but that didn't go over well.) The Blind Assassin was a great read. I hope you enjoy it!

Hazelk, I loved The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. It's the book that got me started reading Atwood again, after reading some of her earlier work in the 70s. Recently read her latest, Moral Disorder, a collection of stories.

Have just started Margaret Atwood's Blind Assassin. What are your opinions of this book?

Older ones: Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Newer ones: Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin was astounding).

What I’m reading… Well, Bestine, now I'm a bit embarrassed for reading Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Actually, I shouldn’t be embarrassed because it’s a pretty powerful little book. But, compared to what you’re reading, it’s just basic popular fiction. It’s an example of ...

I finished Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I'm still working on The Namesake, Lady Anne's Dangerous Man, and The Assassin. I also started Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase and Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey.