Review: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Published by Vintage Books 2007
Genre: Classics, Dystopia, Feminism

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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

Review: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published by Modern Library 2000
Genre: Classics, Historical Fiction

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This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.

August TBR

 Every month I make a list of the books I aim to read in that month. I don't knew yet if I'll make it, but hey, at least I intend to. This month my TBR list includes two Classics and five Young Adult books that I'm very curious about. You can follow me on my Goodreads to see how I'm doing, if you like. See you next month for another TBR list!