Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Saturday 11 July 2026
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 day ago
A late night and early morning reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. I recently re-read The Handmaid’s Tale because I’d read it for uni decades ago and forgotten a lot of it, and was interested enough to read the sequel. Thoroughly enjoyed both books.
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Have you seen the TV series? As someone who hadn’t read the books, interested to know how it compares.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’ve only seen bits of it, but it struck me as fairly intense and compelling. I read that Margaret Atwood herself liked the series, so that’s a pretty good endorsement.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
The first season is very close. I’ve not read Testaments, but the show goes off into its own world after then. I find the fact the handmaid never has a name a feature of the book that the show misses, though I understand why they changed that.