Fiction

Read it for the first time when it first came out in paperback. When was that, about 34 or 35 years ago? That's the only time I've ever read it. I was looking for something to take with me to read Friday morning while I was standing in line to vote. I expected a long wait, and that was just the situation I encountered. The wait was about 40 minutes, and that was just after 8 a.m. The longest I've ever had to wait to vote. Well, there was a box of books from way back when that was in a spare bedroom in my house that I never use for anything other than as a place to store stuff, and "The Handmaid's Tale" was one of the paperbacks at the top of that box, and I decided that it would be very appropriate to start reading that novel now. It is so relevant to many things that are happening now. So I started reading that novel for the second time, standing there in line waiting to vote. Some of the best novels I've ever read are these speculative novels about a dystopian future. "1984", "The Road", "The Handmaid's Tale", "Station Eleven". Those are all GREAT novels.

-- Ron