tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post5348899019266813253..comments2024-03-04T11:22:53.502-05:00Comments on Fifty Books Project 2023: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodFifty Books Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08640286429668778869noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-70301104515581534852013-07-26T20:53:06.599-04:002013-07-26T20:53:06.599-04:00what do you mean womanism is the new feminism?what do you mean womanism is the new feminism?billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00349770176721652737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-16799918760700869612013-07-26T19:48:54.066-04:002013-07-26T19:48:54.066-04:00Womanism is the new feminism. Thus, I prefer thin...Womanism is the new feminism. Thus, I prefer thinking of myself as a womanizer. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977189004050200033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-74059638693465378152013-07-26T00:23:04.605-04:002013-07-26T00:23:04.605-04:00On my shelf. Waiting after the 15+ new books I ha...On my shelf. Waiting after the 15+ new books I have to teach for my new job this year.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12500451355263180972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-38795802480111241312013-07-25T13:41:05.933-04:002013-07-25T13:41:05.933-04:00Brittany, I deleted your double comment. Not for c...Brittany, I deleted your double comment. Not for content though.Brent Waggonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05121696882391723790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-43382333916578661062013-07-25T13:18:22.800-04:002013-07-25T13:18:22.800-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505849394031450120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-1437273791344268792013-07-25T13:16:44.462-04:002013-07-25T13:16:44.462-04:00Of course I have many reactions!
First: I have ne...Of course I have many reactions!<br /><br />First: I have never read the novel. RMF and I were going to get it for our road trip but it is a LONG audiobook. I own it and it's on my list to read.<br /><br />Second: "I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely" <- I feel like that is a moment that EVERY woman experiences at some point. I was terribly awkward looking post-puberty/adolescence and so I brilliantly missed this moment until a few radical appearance changes happened at the same time at age 16 and all of a sudden WHOA I existed in men's eyes. It was such a weird shift that I didn't really know how to handle it, and less than a year later I shaved my head, which is a fantastic way to make a woman a gender-less sex-less subject.<br /><br />Third: I sat on a panel at Comic Con that was about young adult dystopian novels with a romantic sub plot, and part of the conversation centered around why is it that in YA (which is super trendy and has comparatively less titles published than general literature, so one could say it really reflects the market) the dystopian novel is coming back? I was driving home with friends reading Lord of the Flies and we all had this period of reading wilderness survival books (Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins). For a while we had Harry-Potter-magic, then we had the Twilight-supernatural*, and now we seem to be strongly in a dystopian novel phase.<br /><br />Why do we want to read these awful books?Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505849394031450120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-71166813458397502162013-07-24T22:03:49.148-04:002013-07-24T22:03:49.148-04:00haha, why thank you!haha, why thank you!billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00349770176721652737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-89669743144252850802013-07-24T12:06:06.287-04:002013-07-24T12:06:06.287-04:00This was a good review that deserves a comment.
S...This was a good review that deserves a comment.<br /><br />So here you go.Brent Waggonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05121696882391723790noreply@blogger.com