This week, our prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is Books on my summer 2026 reading list .  Here are ten books I really would like to read...

This is such a sweet middle-grade retelling of Romeo and Juliet ! It's set in a small town that has two Baptist churches. There was a ...

My dad died three weeks ago yesterday.  While traveling to Iowa for his funeral, I read Summon the Light  by Tor Thibeaux, a retelling of Sh...

You know what?  I am just going to have to accept the fact that I really don't enjoy the story of A Midsummer Night's Dream .  I get...

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is "New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022."  Sometimes I get ...

There are two options to read this play in the Manga Classics series.  One is to read it in the original language, and the other is to read ...

This book.  Oh, this book!  Where do I even start? Laertes  retells Hamlet  from the point of view of an often-overlooked character from the...

I read this book about ten years ago, and I really enjoyed it then, so I was excited when it got made into a movie a few years later.  I ver...

Well, this is a day late because I was in surgery to repair my broken right arm yesterday.  But That Artsy Reader Girl 's topic of ...

No, the title of this post is not a typo.  Alexandre Dumas, the guy who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo  and The Three Musketeers  and so on...

Occasionally, I find a graphic novel version of Hamlet  that I haven't read before.  Or, as in this case, my husband finds one for me ...

I am not actually a fan of Taylor Swift.  I'm not exactly anti-Taylor either, I just... enjoy a few of her songs if they pop up on the r...

This is the perfect summer read.  Breezy and witty, filled with summer's sunshine and shadows, and crammed with characters I adore.  L...

One of  my blogging goals for 2019 is to start reviewing adult coloring books again.  So today I'm reviewing the Words of Wisdom: Quote...

It's We Love Shakespeare Week over on my other blog, Hamlette's Soliloquy!  I'm doing my bit to celebrate by filling out the ...