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Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Review: Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs
Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs. Candlewick Press, 2014. Currently available. Age Level & Genre: YA contemporary realistic fiction Face Value: This is a subtle, beautiful cover. The Egg Drop diner is a key location in the book, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized, Young Adult
Tagged geeks, Kentucky, Shakespeare, summer camp
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Review: When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle
When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle. Simon Pulse, 2012. Currently Available Genre: Retelling, Contemporary Realistic Fiction Face Value: Quite sincerely, this is probably my least favorite cover on a book I’ve read this year. Which is a shame, because … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Young Adult
Tagged Insta-Love, mean girls, Retellings, Romeo and Juliet, Rosaline, Shakespeare
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Shakespeare-Inspired YA Titles We’d Love To Read
The Shakespearean mash-ups we read this week inspired us to come up with our own prospective plotlines for YA novels. Here are the gems that we would like to see in bookstores sometime soon: The Tempest, but set at the … Continue reading
Review: Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray. Little, Brown, and Company, 2011. Currently available. Genre: YA Fiction Face Value: Oh my goodness. Here we have a severe example of the male gaze ruining a book cover. As Sarah so beautifully said when … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theme Week, Uncategorized, Young Adult
Tagged Adaptations, Elsinore, Hamlet, Male Gaze, Michelle Ray, Ophelia, Shakespeare, Theatre, Theme Week, Young Adult
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They Don’t Look Alike and Other Thoughts While Watching She’s the Man
Somehow, despite a love for teen movies and Shakespearean retellings, neither of us had seen the 2006 Amanda Bynes vehicle, She’s the Man, based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. At first glance, this seemed super promising. There’s something really likable and … Continue reading
Posted in Theme Week
Tagged Gender Identity, Shakespeare, She's the Man, Soccer, Theme Week, Twelfth Night
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Shakespeare Week Review: All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen
All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen Tom Doherty Associates, 2011 Genre: Steampunk / Historical / Retelling Face Value: Eh. I’m pretty indifferent to this cover. It doesn’t set off any of my usual triggers – it has an … Continue reading
Use Your Grey Matter: Was Shakespeare a Feminist?
AAAAAAND it’s time again! It’s another theme week. Last time we did one of these we celebrated the amazing Meg Cabot, this time around we’re switching gears (and centuries) and talking about William Shakespeare. So we’ll be upfront here: we … Continue reading
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