Author R.A. Gasparac

With more and more people staying home, we are catching up on cleaning, Streaming media, and our book pile. With the resurgence of audio books, it makes it even easier to multitask around the house while escaping our self quarantines internally.

My current book hangover is ‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood. If you are unfamiliar, she is the author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ While it has been YEARS since the original publication, the resurgence of interest through the HULU adaptation made it a worldwide phenomenon. With it, readers and viewers demanded more.

The Testaments is the long awaited sequel, as Margaret stabbed us all through the hearts at the open ending of book 1. Rendering the reader into a state of complete and total shock.

Without spoiling the book, I wanted to talk generically about my favorite part. I loved that this book didn’t try to soothe our hurt feelings. It talked about how women were getting their power back in Gilead, and the unending fight to end the police state control. For me it was the sharp reality that just because you think you know a person and based on their role, you have no idea where their allegiance actually stands ( Aunt Lydia.)

What about you? Did you read a book lately that you couldn’t put down? Did you read ‘The Testaments’?