My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read this book in a Sunday, thanks to Taylor doing all the parenting and dinner-making for the day! It's a young adult novel set in 1967-68, and the narrator is a 7th grade boy who thinks his English teacher hates him. (Dont' they all? ... All 7th graders think their teachers hate them, not all teachers hate their students!! :) The clincher? She assigns him to read Shakespeare!
Beginning with The Tempest, they read through several of Shakespeare's works. Surprisingly (ha ha), the themes fit with things in his own life. (I am kidding; we all know Shakespeare is true to life!) There's a lot of humor to the book, but also some real poignancy, as another teacher loses her husband in the Vietnam War, as his older sister runs away from home, and as he realizes his father is not the hero he thought he was.We read it for book club and it made for a lively discussion. If you like YA literature (and to be honest, I haven't though I liked that genre, though "Tangerine" and "Catching Fire" and this one have changed my mind!), this is a good one!
Beginning with The Tempest, they read through several of Shakespeare's works. Surprisingly (ha ha), the themes fit with things in his own life. (I am kidding; we all know Shakespeare is true to life!) There's a lot of humor to the book, but also some real poignancy, as another teacher loses her husband in the Vietnam War, as his older sister runs away from home, and as he realizes his father is not the hero he thought he was.We read it for book club and it made for a lively discussion. If you like YA literature (and to be honest, I haven't though I liked that genre, though "Tangerine" and "Catching Fire" and this one have changed my mind!), this is a good one!
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