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Fiction

PoindexterOglethorpe

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22. Just finished Vox

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:40 PM

Nov 2019

by Christina Dalcher. A dreadful, mysogynist, theocracy has taken over, and all women are limited to 100 words per day. A metal band is attached to the wrist, and keeps count. If you go over the quota, you start receiving electric shocks, which ratchet up if you keep speaking. Excellent.

And now I'm reading Testament by Margaret Atwood. Reading them back to back is very eye opening.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 27, 2019? [View all] hermetic Oct 2019 OP

Great cat pic for Halloween week! Ohiogal Oct 2019 #1

Excellent hermetic Oct 2019 #2

Just started William Kent Krueger's "Iron Lake." TexasProgresive Oct 2019 #3

I have read all the Cork O'Connor books Ohiogal Oct 2019 #4

If you remember Ohiogal it's all your fault that I went looking for them, Thanks. TexasProgresive Oct 2019 #6

IIRC Ohiogal Oct 2019 #10

Ooh, nice picture. Thanks. hermetic Oct 2019 #7

Before I saw all the titles I thought about you and took the picture. TexasProgresive Oct 2019 #11

Thanks, pal hermetic Oct 2019 #13

I just looked them up and will order one 😊 MLAA Oct 2019 #17

The Enlightenment of Bees, Rachel Linden northoftheborder Oct 2019 #5

General Fiction, Romance but... hermetic Oct 2019 #8

Thanks for clarifying whether fiction or not. Fictionalized true experiences. northoftheborder Oct 2019 #20

Sadly I've had very little time for fiction these days FakeNoose Oct 2019 #9

That is a great book hermetic Oct 2019 #14

Just the headlines RainCaster Oct 2019 #12

Stocking up is good hermetic Oct 2019 #15

The Testaments. Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale MLAA Oct 2019 #16

I'm reading Trickster's Point, murielm99 Oct 2019 #18

Indeed hermetic Oct 2019 #19

Lovely kitty picture, hermetic. Thanks for the thread. Still reading japple Oct 2019 #21

Just finished Vox PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #22