Margaret Atwood
Posted: Jun 20th 2003, 10:45 am
I'm finishing off my current book (The Bitch in the House) which is more a collection of essays on womanhood, dealing with the myth of domestic bliss and stuff...
anyway, recently I've been quite enthusiastic about Margaret Atwood. I read the Handmaid's Tale and loved it... and I just bought her new one Oryx and Crake, though I'm saving it for when I'm on holiday in a week and can really savour it.
I bought my mum Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin for her birthday...
I really like her smooth, lyrical style. The words just seem to flow (sort of how I feel about Paulo Coehlo). The most interesting thing was that I recently went to an event where she read sections of her new book and was then interviewed afterwards (the interviewer was useless and inspired feelings of hatred in everyone there). It was so good - she has a brilliant sense of humour and clearly soaks up information like nobody's business... all of her stuff is grounded totally in reality (eg she said that everything in Oryx and Crake of a scientific nature is being done right now, or is very close to being done and the only reason it hasn't is ethics - her family are all scientists, apparently).
meeting the author of a book I've read was such a total eye-opener. Although her intellect is astounding, it's nice to realise that they are normal humans with normal neuroses...
anyway, recently I've been quite enthusiastic about Margaret Atwood. I read the Handmaid's Tale and loved it... and I just bought her new one Oryx and Crake, though I'm saving it for when I'm on holiday in a week and can really savour it.
I bought my mum Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin for her birthday...
I really like her smooth, lyrical style. The words just seem to flow (sort of how I feel about Paulo Coehlo). The most interesting thing was that I recently went to an event where she read sections of her new book and was then interviewed afterwards (the interviewer was useless and inspired feelings of hatred in everyone there). It was so good - she has a brilliant sense of humour and clearly soaks up information like nobody's business... all of her stuff is grounded totally in reality (eg she said that everything in Oryx and Crake of a scientific nature is being done right now, or is very close to being done and the only reason it hasn't is ethics - her family are all scientists, apparently).
meeting the author of a book I've read was such a total eye-opener. Although her intellect is astounding, it's nice to realise that they are normal humans with normal neuroses...