Sunday night I stayed up to finish Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. It was the first time in a long time that I've had to finish a novel by a certain date. (Which somehow seems different than needing to do reading for class by a certain day). Monday night I went to my first meeting of a bookgroup that Molly invited me to. (Yay for meeting people through the blog.) The book group folks seemed nice, and the next book (Erik Larson's Devil in the White City) is one I've had recommended many times, so I'm happy about all that. Let's just hope I don't jinx this one the way I did several book groups in Portland.

As for the book, it wasn't entirely what I expected (especially the ending, but I won't speak much of that in case anyone reading this wants to read the book). Let's just say that the book overall is a post-apocalyptic novel that oddly focuses more on what lead up to the disaster rather than how people are surviving after. I enjoyed it overall. The only other Atwood I'd read was The Handmaid's Tale.
posted by kristin at 12:55 PM