Kate’s 2¢: “Bodily Harm” by Margaret Aewood

“Bodily Harm” by Margaret Aewood

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   When it happened to me,  My reaction to breast cancer was very different from Rennie Wilford’s response to her diagnosis and subsequent mastectomy. There are healthier options and choices to get beyond the feelings of disfigurement, sense of despair, and imagined eminent death. That’s a fact.

   Now, about the story. Rennie seems to be trying to search her soul and reconcile herself to whatever the cancer will do; however, her stream of consciousness and immoral bed hopping doesn’t give her any satisfaction or answers. The ending of the story is also a bit muddled: does she or does she not get rescued from the filthy, small town jail?

From the WEB:

   Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.

   Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her MaddAddam trilogy the Giller and Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) is currently being adapted for HBO. The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and th…

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Bodily harm DB18414

Atwood, Margaret. Reading time: 9 hours, 35 minutes.

Read by Eda Seasongood. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Suspense Fiction

Fleeing from a series of personal crises, Rennie Wilford, a Toronto journalist, takes a working vacation at a Caribbean resort. There she becomes the lone witness of violence, and a pawn in a terrifying, local revolution. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.

“Bodily Harm” by Margaret Aewood

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   When it happened to me,  My reaction to breast cancer was very different from Rennie Wilford’s response to her diagnosis and subsequent mastectomy. There are healthier options and choices to get beyond the feelings of disfigurement, sense of despair, and imagined eminent death. That’s a fact.

   Now, about the story. Rennie seems to be trying to search her soul and reconcile herself to whatever the cancer will do; however, her stream of consciousness and immoral bed hopping doesn’t give her any satisfaction or answers. The ending of the story is also a bit muddled: does she or does she not get rescued from the filthy, small town jail?

From the WEB:

   Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.

   Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her MaddAddam trilogy the Giller and Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) is currently being adapted for HBO. The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and th…

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Bodily harm DB18414

Atwood, Margaret. Reading time: 9 hours, 35 minutes.

Read by Eda Seasongood. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Suspense Fiction

Fleeing from a series of personal crises, Rennie Wilford, a Toronto journalist, takes a working vacation at a Caribbean resort. There she becomes the lone witness of violence, and a pawn in a terrifying, local revolution. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.

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