The Cephalopod Coffeehouse: August Edition
It's time for the always fun monthly meeting of book loving bloggers hosted by The Armchair Squid . The idea is to share a book that you have read this month and then head out and check out what everybody else read. It's a great way to add to your To Be Read list with books you may not have come across otherwise. My favourite read this month comes from Canada's female literary legend, Margaret Atwood . Having been a huge fan since the first time I read The Handmaid's Tale in high school I didn't think there was much she had written that I hadn't already devoured. Apparently I was wrong. Alias Grace is a work of historical fiction based around Grace Marks a Canadian maid who in 1843 was convicted in the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. I read through the trial after in the Toronto Library collection and it was almost as fascinating as the book to me. A big part of the draw to this story for me is that thi...