I think they took your mailing address and made a leap of faith with it: you are a Canadian, therefore they can tell you they know you've read Canadian authors. The marketing version of a form letter....
Great about Annie Dillard. What is the book?
I am also not a Margaret Atwood fan. I was disgusted by The Handmaid's Tale, and bored by her other stuff. Great for her that she's famous, yay. But... couldn't care less, myself. One thing that bothers me -- she happens to be at the center of it, but couldn't know this -- is that some professors at IUP got into the habit of assigning that book to introductory sociology students. Now, I have a deep problem with forcing anyone to read something this sexually atypical -- not everyone can deal, especially not at age 18 or 19. Yet still the practice continues. Feh! (And so says the person who read Stranger in a Strange Land at twelve, and is happy to have done so.)
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Date: 2009-03-27 05:26 am (UTC)Great about Annie Dillard. What is the book?
I am also not a Margaret Atwood fan. I was disgusted by The Handmaid's Tale, and bored by her other stuff. Great for her that she's famous, yay. But... couldn't care less, myself. One thing that bothers me -- she happens to be at the center of it, but couldn't know this -- is that some professors at IUP got into the habit of assigning that book to introductory sociology students. Now, I have a deep problem with forcing anyone to read something this sexually atypical -- not everyone can deal, especially not at age 18 or 19. Yet still the practice continues. Feh! (And so says the person who read Stranger in a Strange Land at twelve, and is happy to have done so.)