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How can you go wrong with Alan Cumming narrating a literary variation on The Scottish Play?

Confession - Macbeth is really the only Shakespeare that I am familiar with, and that's not saying much. I liked how the authors, one a Shakespeare scholar, fleshed out the story. I'm counting it as #TartanNoir for #Booked2020.

Now... #audiowalk and #audiocleaning are done. Let the weekend slothfest begin!

I started the day with a little #audiocleaning. I feel all productive and sh*t. Surely 45ish minutes of straightening up has earned me a whole day of lazing about and reading?

Just wondering... Could I count this as #TartanNoir for #Booked2020.... Or is that really not in the spirit of things?

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Historical thriller adaptation of Shakespeare‘s Macbeth. I listened to an audio version read by Alan Cumming. Loved this reimagining and Cummings reading of the story was perfect.

I must start by saying I haven‘t read Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, but I dug this novel! Co-author A.J. Hartley is a Shakespeare professor and used Shakespeare‘s “short tragedy” as a “jumping point.” Hartley‘s novel is set in the 11th century and in the actual town in Scotland where Macbeth lived and fought (Shakespeare used fictional dates and locations). More historically accurate while still allowing for creative license- great historical fiction!