Book #133 of 2021: Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars #4) This book is built around a cute idea, but once you get past that basic gimmick of retelling the first Star Wars movie in iambic pentameter — “In time so long ago begins our play / In …
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Book #66 of 2020: Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin (Foul Is Fair #1) I love the concept of a high school Macbeth, but the execution here — which plays out more like The Count of Monte Cristo meets Mean Girls, with a sixteen-year-old changing her appearance to seek revenge on the boys who drugged …
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Book #263 of 2017: New Boy by Tracy Chevalier Othello is my favorite Shakespeare play, and I love the idea of retelling its story in a 1970s schoolyard. The new setting leaps off the page, as the son of a Ghanaian diplomat newly posted to Washington, D.C. joins an otherwise all-white sixth grade class and …
Book #183 of 2017: Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare The plot of this Shakespearean history is a trifle thin, detailing only a sliver of England’s War of the Roses, but we’re mostly here for the humor, which offers more laughs than some of the bard’s actual comedies. The most famous bits involve Prince …
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