That is a very good coverI read that book out loud to a blind woman who asked me to after The Vampire Lestat. The copy I read had a cover of a nun at a very tall foreboding curved wall. Those two books were not my sorts of things. The Handmaiden's Tale was extremely vexing at first because it took awhile to catch on to the stream of consciousness and the odd meter which was not so easy to vocalize; short sentence, short sentence, short sentence, short sentence, loooooooooooooooooooo- ooooooooooooooooo- no breathing allowed -ooooooooooooooooooo- ooooooooooooooong sentence, short sentence, short sentence short sentence short sentence. Very irritating. But Mary loved the book and remarked it was brilliant. It sounded typical anti-Christian fantasy-weaving to me by describing a situation that already exists in the secular world and by imagining it happening to a country larger than her own but nearby, that post-Christian dystopia, would more closely describe the author's neighbor, was the sense that I got throughout. But if I'm wrong, and that WAS Atwood's point, which I doubt, it was missed by Mary who found a new fondness for Atwood for her projected cynicism.
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kombu dashi,
Sat 23 Feb 2013, 1:00,
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Do you add dried shitake?I've just been using kombu and wakame and a few seasonings as a starter for a noodle broth. I use miso and ground toasted sesame seeds as the tare.
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Sat 23 Feb 2013, 1:20,
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I think you really haddried bread crumbled into ramen
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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sat 23 Feb 2013, 1:22,
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That's "hand-crumbed panko liberally scattered into organic artesian spring-water ramen" actually. mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 23 Feb 2013, 1:26,
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It's speculative fiction.She speculates what would happen in America if the right-wing Evangelical Christians staged a coup.
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Sat 23 Feb 2013, 1:24,
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andthus begin the epicurean delights brought forth by oryx & crake.
(let us praise our creator and protector).
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Sat 23 Feb 2013, 1:44,
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(let us praise our creator and protector).
Funny enough I was going to mention that.I really like that book, it's probably my favourite of hers. I read the sequel though and was disappointed, didn't like it at all.
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Sat 23 Feb 2013, 3:18,
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