Blind Assassin was the first Atwood I've read in well over ten years- I've been saying I don't like her- she requires too much from the reader. I still think so, but in a different way. BA had some far-out, almost science fiction stuff- which I skipped but the basic story of the two sisters, Lily and Laura, was fascinating, and I enjoyed the way MA dropped a little hint now and then as to what was actually unfolding amidst all those pronouns- who is "she" and who is "he"? She also writes with a good sense of humor- I loved the way their housekeeper uses platitudes almost incessantly in her speech.
Shirley has loaned me Lady Oracle" so I'll read that in the spring when I am recovering from my feast of reading from PCB library.
Sandra loaned me Colleen McCullough's A Creed For the Third Millenium", but it's just not my thing. Again it takes place in the future, and it's just too bleak a landscape for me!
An Equal Music is a book I've had for a few years, and tried to read but couldn't get into. We'll see how it goes this time.
I've read six out of eight stories by Alice Munro - they're all right, but I'm just not a short story person. I like to really get into a book, savour it, become part of it. Short stories are too brief and minimal for me, although I very much admire the craft of the writer.
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