Happy weekend! I had my wisdom tooth out mid-1961 Club and I am kinda done with it being sore (they did warn me it could be at least two weeks) so hoping for some sunshine and book-related-fun to distract me over the weekend. In fact, I’ll be seeing Rachel’s play tonight. I’d invite you along, but it is sold out! There’s another bookish plan that I’ll tell you about afterwards… 1.) The book – or several books! My book group recently read Margaret Atwood’s Hagseed, which I thought was excellent. It’s part of a series of rewriting/updating Shakespeare’s plays, and is based on The Tempest. It all lay dormant for a while but, excitingly, I see they’ve recently republished all the titles in beautiful new editions – and added a couple to the list too. Mark Haddon has covered Pericles in The Porpoise and Isaac Merion has taken on Romeo and Juliet in Warm Bodies. And now, of course, I need all of these. (Image borrowed from here.) 2.) The link – over at This Reading Life, Brona has reviewed…
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