This week's new biography releases. (Perfectly timed for your Christmas list.)

via @TheEdinburghBookshop and probably @prismaticpages

https://bookish.community/@TheEdinburghBookshop/115497024905810781

More new biographical releases this week: Paul McCartney & Wings, Anthony Hopkins, and two amazing, powerful, creative women, Margaret Atwood and Patti Smith.

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#MargaretAtwood has released #BookofLives, her #memoir.

Who's planning to read it?!

Booknotification.com I #getnotified

Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood review – the great novelist reveals her hidden side https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/03/book-of-lives-margaret-atwood-autobiography-review #Autobiographyandmemoir #MargaretAtwood #Biographybooks #Culture #Books

Margaret Atwood:

"She was lucky in her parents, a foresting entomologist father, Carl, and tomboyish mother, Margaret, both from Nova Scotia. Carl’s work on insects meant that the family spent half the year in the bush, at times without electricity, running water or a telephone. They’d camp in tents or shacks by a lake while Carl cut down trees to build a wooden cabin. Young Margaret – Peggy to everyone – loved the outdoors; she learned to fish, canoe, beachcomb, pick berries, delight in birds, insects, mushrooms and frogs. At summer camp, in her teens, she was known as Peggy Nature."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/03/book-of-lives-margaret-atwood-autobiography-review

As one trained in Internal Family Systems coaching, this intro to Atwood's memoir, "The Lives", delights me .

I look forward to reading it!
I can only read the sample for now (I'm 188th in line for the e-book at our library.)
#whatToRead #margaretAtwood #bookstodon

#MargaretAtwood #SexyGrannies

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/01/margaret-atwood-interview-handmaids-tale-author-new-memoir

Margaret Atwood: “A las mujeres mayores solo nos permiten ser dos cosas: sabias ancianas o viejas brujas malvadas”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-11-01/margaret-atwood-a-las-mujeres-mayores-solo-nos-permiten-ser-dos-cosas-sabias-ancianas-o-viejas-brujas-malvadas.html

A quotation from Margaret Atwood

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There’s something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It’s like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 34 (1986)

More info about this quote: wist.info/atwood-margaret/7986…

Sheeh Eric. Margaret Atwood defended one shitty rapist university prof and railed against one affordable apartment building that had the audacity to be proposed near her Toronto mansion and you’re still mad at her like a decade later.

Yes. #MargaretAtwood

Well, congrats to this year's #Nobel Prize for literature, but...what has the committee got against #MargaretAtwood? What did she ever do or say to alienate them?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/nobel-literature-prize-swedish-academy-9.6932746

#HandmaidsTale, #OryxAndCrake, #AliasGrace, #TheRobberBride

Useless quote for 7 October:

"The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly."

~ Margaret Atwood, in a 2010 interview with Matthew Rothschild, "The Progressive Magazine" 2 Dec 2010

Link to source:
https://progressive.org/magazine/margaret-atwood-interview/

Schon steht das Buch auf meiner Wunschliste! https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-54751-2