The Year Of The Flood

OK but it's not Oryx and Crake

3 weeks ago

Reason for Reading: Atwood's new book. Summary: A plague has wiped out the majority of the world and the God's Gardeners cult had been preparing for the end-times (the Waterless Flood) all along. Two women, who were members of God's Gardeners have survived the plague. One, Ren, because she was in an isolation unit (almost like an apartment) where she was recuperating after being abused by one of the patrons in the sex club where she worked and possibly contaminated. The other, Toby, had… + read more

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Vision of the Future

4 weeks ago

I didn't plan on reading this book at all...i'm not much of an Atwood fan. But there it was on the speed read shelf at the library, so i grabbed it. And for this reason i didn't know that "The Year of the Flood" was tied in with another Atwood book, "Oryx and Crake". I don't think it matters that i didn't know this, or that i didn't read "Oryx and Crake" first, as many reviews said would be in my best interest to do. Anyway...i wasn't sure if i would like this book...a quarter of the way in… + read more

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Interesting

4 weeks ago

In TYotF the reader is familiar with some of the events (same time and place as Oryx and Crake), but you see them occur from a different perspective. OaC was a solid 5 stars, it was shocking at times and made me think about it long after I read the book. Atwood is a great writer and this is a great novel but it just didn't resonate with me as much.

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I can't wait for the third book in this trilogy.

2 months ago

In 1972, Margaret Atwood published Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, in which she proposed that Canadian literature to that point had been based on the need to survive, whether against nature or against human opposition. Thirty-seven years later, Atwood has defended her thesis by making literal survival the entire goal of the characters in The Year of the Flood. We follow two main characters, Toby and Ren, who have managed to survive, by their isolation, the waterless flood… + read more

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