I am awed by Margaret Atwood's ability to combine current headlines with a slippery slope to come up with a believably frightening novel of the possible near-future. And then she does it again, and again. The comparisons to Orwell and Huxley are not overdone.

TYOTF shares a setting and a few characters with Oryx and Crake. I'm going to have to go back now and re-read O&C to see where the stories line up and overlap. Everything in TYOTF is so real, so possible. The mindsets, the attitudes, the technology and its almost-inherent misuse. I had a bit of a difficult time getting into O&C that I didn't with this new book. I think it's because all of the characters in the first 300 pages are human. :)

If you're a fan of Atwood's dystopian fiction, check it out. Even if you didn't care so much for Oryx & Crake.

I have let y'all down this month. We just moved and we're still settling in. And my cat is very ill. I've been focusing on home a lot and this just slipped between the cracks. Please read any 2 of the books suggested in the last post's comments and let us know how you liked them.
Thank you, happy reading and happy holidays.

I'm leaving submissions open until Midnight, but we haven't gotten any so far.....