My Soul Called Life How does this challenge work? For this challenge, Claudia at My Soul Called Life has chosen six keywords associated with each month in 2017. My task is to read one book each month whose title includes one or more of the keywords for that month. Simple right? January = Fall {Falling} Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray My rating: 2 of 5 stars So the month was starting to wind down and I realized I hadn't picked my book for January yet! I did a quick search in the library catalog and found this book. It seemed perfect, a YA novel (I can read these rather quickly) and a modern retelling of Hamlet (one of my favorite Shakespeare plays). I was sadly kind of disappointed in this novel. The story was told in 3 different ways. There was Ophelia on a talk show, that was Oprah-like, telling her story. Then there was the transcript of her interview with the police. And the main telling was Hamlet from her point of view. I would h...
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