As you can see I’ve been on a second time round Margaret Atwood binge lately.
Luckily for us all all her books are eminently re-readable, staying as fresh as they were the first time round and really giving you, the reader, a chance to get to grips with what a gifted and professional writer Atwood actually is.
(Note:- re-reading is a must for every one. This is how really good books are measured — on your second or third read do they seem better now for your understanding of what the author is doing and how they employ narrative, literary and characterisation techniques to tell the story you so loved the first time round? Does the author understand what a book should do and how it should function and how is this displayed in the text? Stuff like that. This is how really good books are — well put together, thought out and operating on many, many, many different levels without fall ing apart under their own ambition.)
The Blind Assassin won The Booker Prize by the way. Because it’s pretty damn good. You should read it.