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What It’s About: In Other Worlds is an exploration of Margaret Atwood’s relationship with science fiction – from her first reading and writing attempts as a child through her studies at Harvard and culminating in her work as a writer and reviewer. The book collects Atwood’s lectures, reviews, and other writing on the topic together in one book.
Why I Want to Read It: MARGARET ATWOOD! SQUEE!
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I’ve had a couple of really uncharacteristic reading weeks over the last month. It started back in November when I realized that I could spend basically all of November and December reading whatever I wanted because I was done with reading commitments for the year.
I decided to finish all of the books I’d borrowed from people over the last several months, which I managed to do really quickly because I went unplugged for awhile. Since then, I’ve been on a literary fiction reading kick, which has been really abnormal and a lot of fun.
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Reviews of Minority Report by Philip K. Dick and The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis.
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I finally finished reading Lilith’s Brood, a science fiction trilogy by Octavia Butler. I say finally finish reading because I’ve been working on finishing the book since May when I read the first section, Dawn, for my class on science fiction. I’ve been trying to push through the other two stories, Adulthood Rites and Imago, [...]
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Right now, I have four books in progress, and just bought two more at Borders today. I really want to start finishing things, but I have such a distracted personality at the moment no book holds on to me long enough for me to make any real progress. That, and I don’t have much time [...]
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