texttheater quoted Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view …
The futile tone of it wearied her more than anything. It tasted of the stale breath of men for whom opinions trumped life. But Winston was reading as if it contained revelation after revelation; as if it were a book of spells that would give him superhuman powers.
— Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman (69%)