Chrissy

That's the 'it' about The Handmaid's Tale, it is disturbing and takes you to a place where you can imagine a reality where this is the norm - and you do thank the heavens that it's not your life. Nail on the head there!

Hello Dan!

Oh Roxi, that made me chuckle - and should be a lesson to all girls!

Routine might well have a lot to do with it. I can't lie in once I'm properly awake and my body clock wakes me around quarter to five in the morning (the alarm goes off at five). Irregardless of whether I have to be up, I will getting out of bed within twenty minutes or so, even if it's to get a cuppa and my current book! I find my back starts aching if I lounge for too long in bed and I get groggy and grumpy if I doze in and out of sleep, so I can't stay there whether I want to or not.

Have you thought of doing a re covering? I have a couple of old favorite books that have pretty much fallenapart, and I have used wrapping paper (on presents I got from close friends) to re cover them. It has the double thing of keeping the book safe, and remiondeing me of the friend when I read the book!

He bought 28 Day Later (the movie) for me, and I think a short, thought provoking book can be just brilliant to have to hand. Great review Roxi, I'll let you know what I think once it's arrived.

It really does pay to re read them. You capture all the bits and nuamces and humour that you may have missed the first time/s around. Go on TV83 - you know you wanna!

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I've just bought a new copy (incl postage) for

I've just ordered this Roxi, as I think my son and I would both enjoy it (I'm going to be reading it first though!).

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Hello Maggie!

We should all have listened to Dumbledore!

Kreacher was fascinating, and it bugged me that so few people saw that he It's a valuable lesson for us all.

Hello Tania!

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It was only when I had re read TDH that That's my reading of it anyway!

I read this a while back, and thoroughly agree with your review BookBee. Before I read your review I remembered how endearing and powerful this aspect of his autobiography was. His honesty sticks with you.

I loved the pomposity of Phineas! I think that this last one had to be all actiony, there was too much that had to happen, but I guess that had to be the case.

He was devoted, and his depiction in the last book really peels away the irritating aspects of him. Phew

I vaguely remember reading the New York Trilogy years ago, and the conclusion being that Paul Auster had set out to subvert the 'taken for granted' relationship the reader has with an narrator, and indeed the author. Fascinating and disturbing in equal parts.

Hello geordie_bint!

Definitely weird! No doubt about it, but you're in good company with the rest of us ghouls!

I don't think Deaver ever specifies Rhymes' skin colour in the books, although he makes reference to other characters features (hair colour/style/type, eye colour). But I think we all do the same thing, whereby an image enters our mind regarding what a character looks like, and we stay with it unless specifically directed not to. I haven't seen the movie, but Angelina Jolie just is so not the picture I have in my head for Sachs! I have more of a young Sean Young in my mind.

I like how you equated that one! X2 of one makes X1 of the other!