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Lauren Hutton recommended Will in the World in Books (curated)

 
Will in the World
Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt | 2021
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"Once I learned how to read Shakespeare (not till my mid-40s; I was a model), I realized maybe there are aliens out there who have two ideas per sentence. We’re lucky to get one per book. Greenblatt is a star-crossed scholar, who’s bestie at Cambridge, Eric Idle, became a member of Monty Python. So how much more fun can you get? I’m already wheezing to blow this island to get Stephen’s latest, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve,” and will need all of Will’s sonnets and plays, too, for reference."

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Ella Frances Sanders recommended Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself in Books (curated)

 
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
Walt Whitman, Allen Crawford | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
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"My copy of Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself, an illustrated beauty of a book by Allen Crawford, which exquisitely spreads out Whitman’s famous Leaves of Grass poem over 234 pages. Its cloth-bound body was a gift from a friend who had been staying in Paris, and it bears a stamp from the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore situated on the Left Bank. The friend is a dear one who I barely see given our current geolocations, but the sort where years can pass and you can still converse as if it were yesterday"

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Erika (17788 KP) rated Fools and Mortals in Books

Jan 24, 2021  
Fools and Mortals
Fools and Mortals
Bernard Cornwell | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
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4.0 (1 Ratings)
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I've never read anything by Bernard Cornwell, but I have heard good things about him.

This probably wasn't the best book of his to start with, I didn't read any reviews prior to starting this. Had I, I probably would have opted out.

The novel is centered around Shakespeare's younger brother, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Richard Shakespeare wasn't a really interesting character, and had an insta-love story, in the middle of the mystery of the stolen plays.

Overall, just meh. Maybe I'll attempt to read something else by Cornwell? Maybe not.