Yeah I heard Year of the Flood is playing out at the same time of O&C. Just out in the plebe lands, right? I will have to get to it!

I need to read more Atwood for sure to make a definitive pick. I’d like to read The Blind Assassin sometime. So far, I like Alias Grace best from 1996. It takes place in Kingston (at the Pen) where my husband grew up and where we visit often. Not the Pen but the town.

The idea of starting with the second wouldn’t be bad in this case (then O&C, with Maddaddam last of course. The stories are parallel but TYotF is a little more inviting (in a way that I can’t explain without spoilers).

My answer to that changes, partly due to my own reading mood and timing. When I was rereading/reading these three, I would have chosen them for sure, because I honestly hadn’t noticed just how much detail there had been in the crafting/layering of the stories. But I have a soft spot for Cat’s Eye and I love The Blind Assassin’s structure and story. And the short stories are wickedly good. But I haven’t said a thing about Handmaid’s Tale and I’ve reread it more often than the rest. What an awful question! What’s *your* favourite? 🙂

Oh that’s great you got into them. Yeah I plan to read the other two sometime, but just not right away. I hear The Year of the Flood might be the best of the 3. thanks for stopping by

Thanks Kate. Yeah I’m noticing being in a book club has really opened up my choices this past year. And so far, that’s been a good thing

Yeah you’re in a book club, right Kathy? I think it is fun to be pushed out of your reading zone at times, which my book club sometimes does for me.

Thanks Anne for stopping by. I’m glad you found me too. Interesting that you still liked the 2nd one without reading the first. That must have been disorienting!