The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

“I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew: Don’t open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. Make him slide his ID under the door. Don’t stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, don’t turn to look. Don’t go into a Laundromat, by yourself, at night.” The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.

I’d heard good things about this book before I read it. I bought it on my Kindle app several months ago because it was on sale for $2 because I knew it was unlikely I’d get it for that cheap anywhere else, or if I waited. For a long time I kind of forgot that I had it on my Kindle app. So I finally got around to reading it and wondered if maybe I just wasn’t going to like it as much as everyone else seemed to.

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

“See you’ll b’lief in a mil’yun diff’rent b’liefin’s if you reck’n jus’ one of ’em may aid you.” Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

Going into this book, all I knew was that it had been made into a movie with Tom Hanks in it with the vague idea that it was set sometime in the future. However, when I started reading and found it set in the 1850s, I was confused and made my way to Goodreads to see what I was in for.

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The library in my hometown has a reading program every summer where if you read enough minutes, you can spin a wheel and one possible prize is a free book. That’s how I acquired this book. I’d never read it or heard of it and only picked it up because I panic when I have to make choices. It looked interesting enough when I read the back cover later.