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Lady Oracle

Written by: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Lorelei King
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From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organize her own death.

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Excellent book

I really enjoyed this book. Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors
who never ceases to amaze me. She always has an interesting story to tell. The performance was very good as well.
In addition I found this book to be interesting and not too long. I recommend this book to anyone.

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We Change

a good read about how we change as we react to the folks we encounter, and Howe we rarely even know who they are. do we ever find out who we are?

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Held my attention

I really enjoyed the slow evolution of the main character. Wanted her to succeed.

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Be the optimistic caterpillar

How can I write a review of this book when I'm not really sure what it's about? The protagonist had troubles in childhood, so is it coming-of-age?

But those problems were not resolved.

And now she's got problems as an adult, so is it a mid-life crisis? Maybe. I've lost track of the timeline, so maybe she's old enough.

Anyway, the chickens are coming home to roost...

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Strange, but consider the source

Riveting and repulsive (?) at once. Had to finish it!, the story had me in its thrall.

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Magnificent!

The imagination goes wild listening this book... leave it to run and go with the flow.

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Pronunciation was off

Would have been nice if the narrator was from Toronto or at least Canadian, because the pronunciation of some the words and especially the places was wrong.

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depressing

I made it painfully to chapter 25. And I finally gave up. But maybe it's supposed to be painful. It's a very depressing book. but hey if someone feels like they are in a low, the protagonist here has got to be lower.

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I love Atwood, but….

This was an odd story. Having listened to it, I am grateful that I was multitasking while listening, otherwise it would have been a serious waste of time. There was zero point to the story and it is easily forgotten.

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I must lack the required imagination

Kept hoping I’d enjoy it at some point yet I didn’t.
Simply made no sense to me.

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