#TheTestaments

[firebarzzz]

@iamcormega "Testament" |#Hiphop|#Hiphop50|#Newyork|

Si tu apprécies le post, n’hésite pas à laisser un commentaire ou un ❤️. C’est toujours bon pour la motivation et pour la survie du site. Amicalement & Respectueusement Firebarzzz 🎙️ARTIST: Cormega 📣TITLE: Testament💿ALBUM: The Testament 📆RELEASED: (1998) La note Firebarzzz The Testament est le 4eme album studio de Cormega, sorti le 22 février 2005 . Il s’agit en fait du premier album du…

[cynicalclassicist]

From the 23rd to the 1st, I read The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, the splendid sequel to The Handmaid's Tale! A bit more hopeful a book, which we do need in these times. #TheTestaments #MargaretAtwood

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[georgelthomas]

Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood #ReaderCommunity #ReadingCommunity #TheTestaments #MargaretAtwood #TheHandmaidsTale #Sequel #BookReview #Book #review #DystopianFiction #Reading #Reader #Books #Reviews

Hi everyone! It’s somehow Friday again, and it’s time for another review. Today I am reviewing the sequel to the brilliant The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.  The Testaments by Margaret Atwood was first published in 2019 by McClelland & Stewart and (my copy) is 378 pages long. Plot The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is a captivating and thought-provoking novel that provides…

[ruthannegarcia]

Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

https://www.amazon.com/Testaments-Novel-Margaret-Atwood-ebook/dp/B07KVLPYDQ/ref=sr_1_1?adid=082VK13VJJCZTQYGWWCZ&campaign=211041&creative=374001&dchild=1&keywords=The+Testaments&qid=1610297911&s=books&sr=1-1&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sin-20 When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her–freedom, prison or death. With The…

[hross42877]

Super neon covers! Picked up doing the supermarket shop! #margaretatwood #thetestaments and the very creepy looking #thewitchhunter by #maxseeck - have you read these books? ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #bookstagram #bookish #bookphotography #booksofinstagram #bookworm #booklover #bookstagramcommunity #readersofig #currentlyreading #bookstagrammer #lovebooks #bookaddict #igreads #fictionreads via @hashtagexpert https://www.instagram.com/p/CF9OYEuAvax/?igshid=1ol1q43ljudum

[bokleseer]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🔸️ . . The Testaments/Gileads døtre 🔸️ Margaret Atwood 🔸️ 2019 . . In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. . . Themes/type of book: Dystopia . . Antall sider/pages: 432 . . Review: I really liked this one😊 The story was exciting and I just had to keep reading. Cons for me: I didn't get the same sense of surprise as with Evelyn Hugo. . . Finnes som lydbok hos Libby. #books #bookstagram #book #thetestaments #booklover #bookworm #bookstagrammer #read #libbyapp #booksbooksbooks #bookrecommendations #boktips #booksofinstagram #instabook #love #bookreview #bookaholic #reader #bok #instagood #literature #booklove #art #bookclub #instabooks #booksbooksbooks #litteratur #readersofinstagram #margaretatwood #bookcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CDLf4GcAgws/?igshid=1vvjw56z62fb5

[greatexpectationsofaw]

The Testaments: Review

Margaret Atwood’s sequel to Handmaid’s Tale.

Summary: Set 15 years after the original novel (and written 34 years after, with the original published in 1985), The Testaments follows the famous (or infamous, depending on which side of Gilead you’re in) Aunt Lydia, the new Daisy, daughter of a Commander, and Agnes, a young girl living in Canada. The latter two being completely new characters to Atwood’s universe, but very welcomed perspectives.

Review: Published as a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel standing alone on a pedestal of all of Atwood’s work, the Testaments sails close to an iconic piece of feminist literature, and doesn’t only scrap the landing - but graces it. Did I possess the fear that this may end up feeling like an unnecessary sequel, due to the TV series and maybe a great book to release in today’s time? I am ashamed to answer that; but I’ve never been so glad to be wrong. The Testaments is one of few novels that is just as good as the first, and just as important in today’s society.

Originally I picked up The Handmaid’s Tale with the announcement of The Testaments, which (after recommending The Handmaid’s Tale to both friends and family) left me waiting ages for this sequel. The story isn’t a complicated one, some of the surprises aren’t surprises (the sisters, the mother) - especially to those who have seen the TV series and can affliate the names to characters on it that never appeared in the first book; but the story isn’t the major part of this. The theme and messages is what drives this, and has us in the passenger seat loving the adventure our driver Atwood is taking us on. Years ago the notion of a dystopian where woman are objectified into slave may have been dismissed, but now it is hopeless - or ignorant - to shun the possible nightmare with the direction our current society has taken. Is Offred missed? Of course. After living through Gilead with her perspective, how could one not be attached to the tortured narrator? But her presence is halted in our thoughts as we follow new protagonists and meet new antagonists (and characters who are in between; looking at you, Aunt Lydia!) who are all daring and keep us on our feet in both anticipation and fear, with every reader finding it impossible to put down their book due to both eagerness and dread. Aunt Lydia’s past is explored, and as we let her tell us what circumstances pushed her into her current position, we learn some her true motive: the desire to fix (and destroy) Gilead. With a great start, fast middle, and satisfying conclusion, there is no doubt this book has a place among literature history.

Overall: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I started this novel and had it finished within a day. Just as good and necessary as its predecessor.

[snowlessknitter]

I finally managed to finish Beloved, and with a few hours to spare in the month of February! It was definitely a heavy read at times, but certainly one of many reasons why Toni Morrison was deserving of her Nobel Prize in Literature. This #classicsbuddyread was a great way to honor her legacy (and her life, as February was her birth month). So, as I leave Beloved behind, I turn forward to the next book in my queue and a return to the world of Gilead: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. This book, published in 2019, is the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, which followed the story of Offred, a woman who was forced to become a Handmaid to a Commander in the totalitarian and theonomous (religiously-controlled) country of Gilead (formerly the United States) for the crime of marrying a divorced man. Although the ending of the first book referenced the fall of Gilead years into the future, this book picks up 15 years after the events of the first book. I’ll be starting this one tomorrow. #thetestaments #margaretatwood #thehandmaidstale #dystopianfiction #womenauthors #currentlyreading https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KyX3OJ07K/?igshid=1d7bujcj44h49

[mybookbath]

Happy October! 🍂🍁 Tell me one book you read last month that you would recommend. ▫️ These are the books I read. I am happy to say that I enjoyed them all very much but for different reasons. My top three would have to be; *Norwegian Wood *One Thousand Splendid Suns *The Girl With A Pearl Earring ▫️ Have you read any of these books? . . . . . . . . . #septemberwrapup #thehandmaidstale #thetestaments #athousandsplendidsuns #girlwithapearlearring #wherethecrawdadssing #norwegianwood #woolgathering #tessofthedubervilles #booksiread #bookishflatlay #flatlaystyle #autumnreads https://www.instagram.com/p/B3FRPpZnZSE/?igshid=cmqnt1pspi51

[memeganem]

Excited for #thetestaments release! Treating myself to a streaming event "In Conversation with Margaret Atwood." #thehandmaidstale #handmaidstale #literature #author #writer #equality #lecture #birthday (at Penn Cinema) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2P4n-tnIIj/?igshid=sfyjrns0xx57

[lightwood-18]

The Testaments bookmark 🔖📚

This is the bookmark I designed for The Testaments (ignore my watermark obvi the printed one doesn't have it) after we read it on #RosendeReads. Promise I will show you guys too my Anne of Green Gables bookmark soon! And a pic of this one printed!

✧ Please don't repost my edit without credits 🙅🏻‍♀️

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This is the first "digital" bookmark I make and I'm kinda happy with how it turned out :) The background colors are the cover's green, pink and plum for the colors of the dresses Agnes used to wear as a kid, and the Aunt's shade of green (thought the colors change a little from my laptop's screen to the printed version or to my phone's screen) + once it is printed it wears a tassel, red for June/Offred (I never add tassels to my bookmarks but I thought it would be a cool way to add some red to symbolize June). Then I used the 3 symbols for Nicole, Agnes and Lydia that appear in the chapters of the own book, plus Gilead’s symbol and a maple leaf for Canada. Then I added the tattoo Nicole had to get, and the lilacs Agnes and the others embroidered on petit-point handkerchiefs for Lydia. I also thought of adding a little skull for when Nicole dresses to look like a different person with a t-shirt with a white skull and a pair of leggings black with white skulls, and for when Agnes embroidered a small skull on the footstool, but I thought it would look too creepy idk? To end I obviously had to add June too, so I added a big J and a moon for the password “June moon” because I love the quote “It’s warm for a May day. It’s not May. Of course not, my mistake. There’s a June moon.” + also the large imitation-pearl brooch in the shape of a new moon Nicole wears during her stay on Ardua Hall + one of the professor’s names at the symposium on the end is literally “Crescent Moon”.

[cynicalclassicist]

At the moment, I am reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale! Here I am on the 22nd, having got it out of the library on impulse. I began it the next day! #TheTestaments #MargaretAtwood

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[1001pagesofsummerreading]

You'd be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.

p 148, The Testaments

[weeklylibrary]

“The Testaments was written in many places: in the dome car of a train stuck on a siding due to a mudslide, on a couple of ships, in a number of hotel rooms, in the middle of a forest, in the center of a city, on park benches, and in cafes, with words inscribed on the proverbial paper napkin, in notebooks, and on a laptop. The mudslide was beyond my control, as were some of the other effects affecting the writing venues. Others were entirely my own fault” The opening statement in the Acknowledgements section.

I read this book in class, in the library, in different parts of college, on my bed and on the airport and the planes back and to from home. For about 50 days now, around Rs.30 in dues and three reissues later, I have successfully finished reading my first book of 2020. Basically, I read this book over the span of one and a half months. In my defense, it is a really long book which tends to be a bit stretchy and it was the month of December. I saw this book in the ‘New Arrivals’ shelf in college and was the first to borrow it, which may be another reason as to why I held on to it for so long. 

I read The Handmaids tale, the prequel to The Testaments, about two to three years ago. Margaret Atwood gives us a glimpse into what religious domination will do to women. In this case it is Christianity, but considering the political situation in my own country right now (India) I couldn't help but comprehend how fucked up things really may turn out to be and how the first victims will be women and children. The book is harsh, borrowing memories from the pages of history, yet optimistic. We get a view of Gilead from Aunt Lydias perspective which I found very fascinating because she is one hell of a character (both in the TV series and in this book as well). There are also the testimonies of Baby Nicole - nothing to write home about, but still her rebellious and revolutionary personality is satisfying.   

“In that case, i would destroy these pages I have written so laboriously; and I would destroy you along with them, my future reader. One flare of a match and you’ll be gone - wiped away as if you had never been, as if you will never be. I would deny you existence. What a godlike feeling! Though it is a god of annihilation.”

Since the book is about 500 pages long and because I was unable to quote The Handmaids Tale on this blog, here’s an extra quote because it describes exactly how I feel - 

“Once I’d passed my sixth-month examination and had been accepted as a permanent Supplicant, I was allowed into the Hildegard Library. It’s hard to describe the feeling this gave me. The first time I passed through its doors, I felt as though a golden key had been given to me - a key that would unlock one secret door after another, revealing to me the riches that lay within.”

[thedoylestownbookshop]

THE TESTAMENTS by @therealmargaretatwood is hitting bookshelves this Tuesday 9/10! Click the link in our bio to pre-order today to guarantee your copy of one of the most anticipated books of the Fall! . . . . . #doylestownbookshop #indiebookshops #margaretatwood #handmaidstale #thetestaments #thehandmaidstale #greatfiction #newrelease #reading #bookstagram #booksofig (at The Doylestown Bookshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Kqk78jm8b/?igshid=1t667uyxuy0ac

[antonioohno]

Segunda parte de las mejores lecturas de 2019: #juliocortázar #juliocortazar #rayuela #hanyayanagihara #tanpocavida #alittlelife #georgeorwell #ensayos #essays #wislawaszymborska #wisławaszymborska #poesíanocompleta #poesianocompleta #andreaciman #andréaciman #callmebyyourname #margaretatwood #lostestamentos #thetestaments #olgatokarczuk #sobreloshuesosdelosmuertos #Prowadźswójpługprzezkości #prowadzswojplugprzezkosci #libros #book https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tw26lpUlr/?igshid=1qy2a49o96e9q