Henry VI, Part II, is so much better than Henry VI, Part I. I just wanted to mention that. I’m not done with it yet but it’s way, way, way better than the first part. I’m not saying it’s the best play I’ve ever read, but I’m enjoying it, and I can envision a future in which I might read it again just for fun sometime. There’s so much political intrigue! Plus, shades of future plays – particularly Macbeth. Gloucester’s wife is extremely ambitious, and there are prophecies that are rather cryptic. One contains the line “Let him shun castles”,…
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I had this idea because of a weird dream I had. This project is for after I finish reading the Harry Potter books – which I’m taking longer to do than I anticipated, because I’m enjoying it so much and I want to make it last. My next reading project – which will run parallel to my rereading The Good Fairies of New York and Lonely Werewolf Girl before finally reading Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me – will be to read all of Shakespeare’s plays, in chronological order. There’s at least twenty of Shakespeare’s plays I’ve not read, and you…
7 CommentsOf course my camera isn’t working. I mean, that makes total sense. Of course right this very day on which I got my cool new commonplace book from Ella at Box of Books, of course that would be the day my camera would choose to not work. It won’t save any pictures I take! So you’ll just have to take my word for it that the new commonplace book I got in the mail today is incredibly cool and pretty. I wish I were crafty. I can’t make anything. I’m terrible at drawing and I’m worse at crafts. The only…
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