On my list of books to read, but I will let you read it first...

RELEASE NOTES:

On the bottom shelf of the bookshelf closest to where you pick up your drinks.

Wow, lucky me! I've been wanting to read this book. How auspicious that I should find it while getting my daily espresso.

RELEASE NOTES:

Got msg from my Bookcrossing alert notice. Found the book in the book shelf of Starbucks.

A view of our future world as far away from Star Trek as it can go. Ms. Atwood touches on some very disturbing issues facing today's world.
Exerpt from Happicuppa chapter involving the growth of coffee. "Until then the individual coffee beans on each bush had ripened at different times and had needed to be handpicked and processed and shipped in small quantaties, but the Happicuppa coffee bush was designed so that all of its beans would ripen simultaneously, and coffee could be grown on huge plantations and harvested with machines. This threw that small growers out of business and reduced both them and their labourers to starvation level poverty.

Once I'm done reading this book; I'll reconsider where to leave it from previous location.

Pg. 211: "the best diseases, from a business point of view would be those that cause lingering illnesses. Ideally--that is, for maximum porfit - the patient should either get well or die just before all of his or her money runs out." Is the author saying that todays companies (supposedly trying to find cures) are forming new diseases, so they can sell the next wonder drug?

So Internet porn, the pharmaceutical companies, Gene splicing, capitalism will be the ultimate downfall of human kind as we know it. Maybe I'm just like Jimmy, I'm not deep enough to understand the intricacies of this book.

I will be giving this book to a friend.

This book has been on my shelf for years! I just took it off to read and noticed the BookCrossing notecard. Lol!