Tag: Margaret Atwood

by M. Bijman April 13, 2020

Horror Stories for Today – Epidemics and Pandemics in Fiction

Staying at home and feeling trapped or bored? Not in the mood for your usual type of book? Have aContinue Reading

by M. Bijman October 18, 2016

Review of new book Review of new novel Review of new science fiction Review of science fiction

A perfect world you’d kill to escape from – The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood

The Heart Goes Last held no surprises for me. Dystopia set somewhere in the future? Check. All doomed to implode due toContinue Reading

by M. Bijman May 7, 2014

Current events Discussion of author’s portfolio Non-fiction Published books Review of historical fiction Subjective non-fiction

Have you read People of the Deer? You should, especially now

Grand old man of Canadian literature dies Just last week I gave my copy of Farley Mowat’s Eastern Passage to a friendContinue Reading

by M. Bijman February 10, 2014

Discussion of author’s portfolio Discussion of genre Review of new book Review of science fiction

The Pigoons are going to get you – MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood

Man Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is famous, celebrated, much awarded, and justly so. One comes to expect that everythingContinue Reading

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