Notes: The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

November 10, 2008

I’m not a huge fan of Margaret Atwood. She’s uses pretty words, I like how they melt together like welded steel and goes straight to, I don’t know, the gut. But sometimes its overdone. You can’t make that many attempts at hit and miss humor and not desensitize the reader. Still, I like her in general—she’s morbidly descriptive, or descriptively morbid in turns. The stuff she writes are so real that they stop becoming real; I mean, you know that these things happen (say, a girlhood friendship or the betrayal of a spouse) but you’ve never really thought of them happening like that. I have four books from her: Bluebeard’s Egg, Wilderness Stories, Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride. 

 

I didn’t finish Cat’s Eye. I wasn’t in the mood for long winding stories with conflict that is murky at best, and sad. I’ll try to read it someday though if I can find it.

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