Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week Four: Update and Check-In #MARM2025

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Before we move into the final week, do enjoy these recent MARMers’ posts: Bill’s of The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), Bron’s of “Freeforall” from Old Babes in the Wood (2022), and MmeBibi’s of Dearly (2020). I’ve started to reread Lady Oracle, so I enjoyed reading in Book of

Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week Four: Update and Check-In #MARM20252025-11-21T14:46:01-05:00

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) Parts VII-IX #MARM2025

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We have spent three-quarters of this hefty novel in the company of Iris, inhabiting her orbit as she navigates her memories. Even the disruptive excerpts from Laura’s novel feel familiar now. We’ve grown comfortable with those two unnamed lovers, and the ceaseless shift of settings (always a new rented

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) Parts VII-IX #MARM20252025-11-19T11:44:58-05:00

Margaret Atwood’s 86th Birthday and Old Babes in the Wood, “Metempsychosis or, The Journey of the Soul” #MARM2025

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“Cat’s Eye was risky business in a way—wouldn’t I be trashed for writing about little girls, how trivial?” MA wonders aloud in a 1990 interview. “Or wouldn’t I be trashed for saying they weren’t all sugar and spice?” But this risk is compelling, too. “I sometimes get interested in

Margaret Atwood’s 86th Birthday and Old Babes in the Wood, “Metempsychosis or, The Journey of the Soul” #MARM20252025-11-19T14:44:32-05:00

Week Three: Update and Check-In #MARM2025

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It’s been a quiet week for MARMers, with the rush of Week One behind us and the seemingly possibility-soaked remaining weeks in November awaiting, although Andrew has posted about Cat’s Eye (1988). He also included two early MARM links at the end, so you can also read about Bill’s

Week Three: Update and Check-In #MARM20252025-11-15T18:37:34-05:00

Novellas in November: Artists and Writers, Paintings and Stories #NovNov2025

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In which I read two more books with #NovNov in mind, hosted by Rebecca and Cathy: one gentle epistolary immersion into an artist’s rediscovery of light, and the other a back-and-forth contemplation of past-and-present through eighteen short chapters about a surprisingly-Clark-Blais-ish writer. Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996) began writing The Husband

Novellas in November: Artists and Writers, Paintings and Stories #NovNov20252025-11-15T18:30:19-05:00
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