FBC Reads: Parable of the Sower
- Our Next Book Pick!
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Monday, 16 January 2012
- Place: Spartacus Books on E. Hastings
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Time19:00 until 21:00
Description
Feminist Sci Fi!
Some words on Butler from Bitch Magazine:
“Octavia E. Butler is most likely the best writer I’ve ever encountered. That’s certainly true technically: she’s flawless. I mean that there is literally not a thing I would change in her writing, and that is a…bsolutely unique. But it’s her incisive, loving explorations of a broken world that will blow your mind wide open.”
http://bitchmagazine.org/ post/ iconography-octavia-e-butle r-and-rewriting-the-other
Here is a review of Parable of the Sower from GoodReads:
When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister’s young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny… and the birth of a new faith.
And some words from the author:
“I’m a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black,…an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.”
― Octavia E. Butler
The book will be ordered into Spartacus in the next couple weeks and should be available in second hand book stores near you…
Some words on Butler from Bitch Magazine:
“Octavia E. Butler is most likely the best writer I’ve ever encountered. That’s certainly true technically: she’s flawless. I mean that there is literally not a thing I would change in her writing, and that is a…bsolutely unique. But it’s her incisive, loving explorations of a broken world that will blow your mind wide open.”
http://bitchmagazine.org/ post/ iconography-octavia-e-butle r-and-rewriting-the-other
Here is a review of Parable of the Sower from GoodReads:
When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister’s young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny… and the birth of a new faith.
And some words from the author:
“I’m a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black,…an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.”
― Octavia E. Butler
The book will be ordered into Spartacus in the next couple weeks and should be available in second hand book stores near you…
