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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night!
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What I love about this sequel is that we are getting insights into Aunt Lydia but also the POVs of a girl who was raised up in a Commander and Wife household as well as a young girl who has ties to the first Handmaid. What is insane to me though is that could the US devolve into some mess like this? Why yes. Of course we could. We seem to place women and girls below men and boys. When we come out with credible evidence of rape and abuse we are either told we brought it on ourselves and or we are liars. It's scary how easy I can see this becoming true.
I agree with you that Gilead ought to fade away—there is too much of wrong in it, too much that is false, and too much that is surely contrary to what God intended—but you must permit me some space to mourn the good that will be lost.
Yeah I am going to call BS on anything about Gilead being good.
At our school, pink was for spring and summer, plum was for fall and winter, white was for special days: Sundays and celebrations. Arms covered, hair covered, skirts down to the knee before you were five and no more than two inches above the ankle after that, because the urges of men were terrible things and those urges needed to be curbed.
It's still nice to see it's always women's faults about men's "urges."
All the little pretend books on the shelves were blank. I asked why there was nothing inside them—I had a dim feeling that there were supposed to be marks on those pages—and my mother said that books were decorations, like vases of flowers.
This is seriously among the most chilling sentences in this book.
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