alejandra’s Reviews > The Handmaid's Tale > Status Update

"Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

Getting spookier by the page

"Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary."

So chilling. And the fact that this is our reality, too. May 2026 bring us revolution.

"There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom for. Don't underrate it." Chills

Going into this with no knowledge about its plot. Just that it's one of the most important dystopian novels of the last century and/or all time.

Been wanting to check this off my want-to-read for ages!