Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Read for: Canadian Books Challenge
It is in the future (the near future according to the book jacket) and the bees have all disappeared. Then randomly (or not as it turns out) five people across the globe are stung. Each of them are then brought into special isolation rooms to be studied [...]
Category > Dystopian Fiction
Book Review: Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Book Review: The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Read for: The Canadian Books Challenge
I find the more Atwood I read, the more I appreciate her writing. Sometimes I don’t love the plot but her writing is brilliant. If you’ve read Oryx and Crake you might recognize the setting and some of the characters in this novel. [...]
Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Read for: Banned Books Week, 1% Well Read Challenge, Canadian Books Challenge
The more I read of Atwood, the more I come to realize what a brilliant writer she is. I read a few of her books about ten years ago and I think I just wasn’t ready for them yet. [...]
Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Read for: Banned Books Week
First of all, can I just say that I think it’s truly ironic that a book about books being illegal is banned?! I had no idea what this book was about when I first picked it up except the whole dystopian future thing. It seems pretty common [...]
Book Review: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Read for: What’s in a Name Challenge – book with a medical condition in the title (this might be stretching it a little, but someone else has already used this for this category so SUE ME!)
Wow. I don’t even know where to start with this one… This book is horrifyingly [...]
