Chapter Three - The Last by Hanna Jameson
It's very much 'back to normal' for this post after all the excitement the arrival of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments brought! The idea of this blog is that each book inspires and kind of leads the way, or in some way directs me, to what I read next. I'm not just reading one random book after the next. This is a journey, of sorts. The last chapter of the Never-ending Book Story focused on The Handmaid's Tale. The world of Gilead which it describes is, in many ways, very insular. Very inward looking. Although the novel and its new sequel seem to be frighteningly describing a world that seems increasingly more possible, it's still - thankfully - a fairly alien world. We know from the historical notes included at the conclusion of each book that, ultimately, Gilead fails. From what we read it seems that the world is on a downward spiral until events start to turn in another direction. I thought for my next step I wanted to read something where the worst ha