Savagely Speaking

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a thrilling and dark literary classic. As a novel, it has depth, vivid imagery and it covers issues that are very relevant to this day. But, as most of you may know by now, Hulu has recently released web series based on Atwood’s classic. I recently read both the book and watched the full series – the effects of which I posted on my own blog – and I can safely say that the series are an accurate representation of the original novel, even though there were some chronological changes to the story. After a short review, I’ll be assessing and comparing both the series and the novel – so as so decide which is better for different audiences. The Handmaid’s Tale , I found, is a very heavy novel to read – especially if you struggle with similar issues as stated in the story. It describes a dystopian world where the human population has become mostly infertile so that many women – usually those have “sinned” – are gathered up like cattle and used ...

Hello, everybody! I’m going to be posting a new article. They won’t always be reviews, but today’s post is going to be a bit of a review. Enjoy! To start off, I just wanted to say that I’ve been doing a lot of reading. For a few years, I lost my reading groove – but I believe its back and I have dived into a whole new world of reading. I’ve regained the ability to empathise with characters and be immersed in story-lines. And I have to say, Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series has had me immersed to the point of distraction. It’s inspired a bit of writing in me, it’s brought out the political and social analyst in me and it’s created a whole new level of imagination for me. Needless to say, it’s amazing. Now, The Witcher is better known as a video game series, the latest of the instalments being The WItcher 3: Wild Hunt , but it is one of the few games that was originally inspired by a book series. Usually video game companies come out with books a few years after releasing game...