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mummymelly · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

Started this a couple of days ago but am finding it hard to get into

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wonderlake · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:46 am Post subject:

I'm just over halfway thru, and finding it very... Atwoodian ? It'll be the third of hers I've read this year
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mummymelly · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

I gave up. Got 80 or so pages into it but it just wasn't holding my attention.
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charlottestar · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject:

I read this one years ago and I don't remember too much about it except it was about bullying I think or partly at least. I liked it but not as much as other Margaret Atwood novels like Blind Assassin or Alias Grace for example. Not my favourite Atwood but readable.

Karen · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

I debated whether to try to get hold of this one or not. I have started a couple of Margaret Atwood's works before and have not managed to stay with one to the end. After looking at some of the comments here already I decided that she is perhaps one of those authors that I just don't get on with for some reason and so voted that I did not read this one.

wonderlake · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:46 am Post subject:

Amie · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject:

Margaret Atwood's one of my favourite authors but I can't remember much about this one, other than it was one of my least favourite of hers.
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War and Peace - Leo Tolsty
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The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

ginger987 · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject:

I'm really struggling with this at the moment, just doesn't seem to be 'hooking me'. Not helped by the fact I fell asleep reading last night so will need to re-read at least the last few pages!

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mummymelly · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

I felt the same with this one
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ginger987 · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject:

Still not getting anywhere with this! Only about 90 pages in and considering giving up. Can anyone tell me if it gets any better?? If it picks up then I can push myself to get on with it otherwise I'm just stopping and moving on!
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Karen · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject:

wonderlake · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject:

I keep on meaning to set down my thoughts about this one ..!
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Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009

1001 challenge 2009: 11

wonderlake · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

Cat's Eye was included in the Guardian 1000 novels everyone must read:
Family & self:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2.../1000-novels-family-self-part-one

A retrospective exhibition prompts artist Elaine Risley to recollect a 1950s childhood spent at one with her scientist parents in the Canadian wilderness and at odds with her conformist contemporaries. A beautifully observed novel about an awkward child finding a mature means of expression in a country coping with similar challenges. Few writers have explored the vicissitudes of female friendship with as much acuity as Atwood does here: the intimacies, the rewards, the rivalries and the shockingly casual cruelty of little girls.

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Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009

1001 challenge 2009: 11

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