Jeanette Winterson's re-telling of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is at its best in Leo, Xeno, and MiMi's back story and the present day of Shep and Perdita, but the parts connecting them didn't quite work for me.
Jeanette Winterson's re-telling of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is at its best in Leo, Xeno, and MiMi's back story and the present day of Shep and Perdita, but the parts connecting them didn't quite work for me.
Tried for 2 hours but could not do it. As it‘s a library book I don‘t feel too bad about not reading it. Now on to something that catches my attention.( I hope). It‘s rainy and very windy here perfect reason to stay inside and read.
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I only kept reading this because I was interested in the story. I found the writing to be wooden and uninteresting, the characters either pretentious (who thinks Walden and Ben Franklin are obscure??), stupid, or absolutely insane. I also found the age-gap between Perdita and Zel concerning, as well as Clo‘s obvious attraction to teenage girls. Yikes. #bookspin
“I saw the strangest sight tonight.”
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1. It depends. Keep if I want to reread it, reference it again, or if it's important enough. sell what I can and donate the rest.
2. An afternoon, or in 3 months. I dunno, shorter fiction feel too much like cheating these days. Pepperharrow took 2 days, I've been at A Distant Mirror (600 pg of dryish nonfiction) since November
3. Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time. I try to finish everything if I can. #wondrouswednesday @Eggs
A book is now on the way for you @arubabookwoman and it should arrive Tuesday. #LMPBC #Round007 #GroupM
This was a struggle to finish and then only reason I think I did was due to it being a #LMPBC read. I only really cared about one character and even then not so much. Hard pass. Maybe the rest of #GroupM will enjoy it?
I read this because it‘s part of the Hogarth Shakespeare retellings. This one is The Winter‘s Tale. The early section with Leo is insufferable, but I stuck with it because it‘s part of the series. It got a bit better as we saw Perdita as an adult. It wasn‘t my favorite, but I still enjoy seeing these famous plays reimagined in a modern setting.
@Shakespearience The book should arrive by Monday.
#LMPBC #round7