Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is also a CYOA (choose your own adventure) book, but not the trademarked version of that. North’s publishers call it a “Chooseable-Path Adventure.” It is not North’s first Chooseable-Path Adventure adaptation. It is my second read of a Hamlet…
Perhaps I’m cheating. No, I’m not. I just wanted to buy a couple of the books that are on my TBR that are not already on my shelf at home. I chose some shorter ones. So sue me. Medea was up near the top, anyway, since it’s Greek mythology and that’s what we’ve been studying…
Yes, this is a writing and reading blog. I do take the liberty of reviewing other entertainment, however, when I feel it is applicable to either the writing or reading life. Sometimes something is so good, that I might be stretching it a bit, and when I saw Arrival I knew that I wanted to…
When I saw this movie with my kids, a few years ago, I was really expecting something like The Spiderwick Chronicles or The Chronicles of Narnia. Perhaps the absence of “Chronicles” in the title should have been a sign, but this book (and movie) are nothing like either of those books/series. Terabithia–despite its fanciful name–is not…
the starving artist 