• Title: The Blind Assassin
• Author: Margaret Atwood
• Genre/Subject: Fiction (Booker Prize Winner)
• Publisher: M&S
• Publication Date: 2000
• Start date: 4/11/2023
• Finish date: 4/17/2023

Review:

This was my very first experience reading Margaret Atwood. There’s a reason she won the Booker Prize for this. Prose is elegant and shit-filthy by turns.

I love reading Canadian books because I can identify with the places, the seasons, the attitudes.

The point of these reviews is to provide a critique, for whomever reads these journals after I shuffle off this mortal coil. So I do have some criticisms:

You can tell this was written by a woman. The men in it are women with moustaches. Some of the things the men do are things men don’t do, or perhaps they are things men do as imagined by a woman. Not a big deal, but still.

It went on too long. As a result the last part feels rushed to me. Like tidying up quickly before the store closes.