Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong

**It's a sequel**

You know what sounds as good as "that's my wife"... "I am your WIFE" best thing you ever gon get

They included one of my favorite tropes. fkdlsfjkldsfdjkl
They do talk about blood and needles and stuff.
....hears the phrase "burning red" ...sus
I don't even know why, but like...reading this book gives me LWYMMD tour entrance vibes

So this might have benefited from a re-read so that I have a greater grasp of the outer characters...but I'm screeching. My babies. All of my babies. With confirmation that my theory was right.
*me waiting for someone to die because Chloe Gong could kill me.
*Finally understands the titles.
593 Page

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

The games which, obvs, have Hunger Games vibes.
Like I know the thing was going to happen...but how.

Me having no idea how the story of Antony and Cleopatra goes besides the end.
392 Pages

One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake

All the Romeo and Juliet vibes.
And the Shakespeare vibes.
I feel like there were more Shakespeare vibes that I was missing...because Roma gave me Lady MacBeth vibes...
432 Pages

Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong

I don't know As You Like It as well as...you know...Romeo and Juliet, so like..... fjkdsljklfda
but when you recognize an obvious Shakespeare quote
It's the demisexual rep for me....
It's also the "Beloved" and the "my wife" for me.
istg....don't just drop those initials and expect me to be calm....like...please don't be messing with me...my heart can't. Like....If it's who I want it to be.....I will not be functioning.... I won't be functioning if it's not, but like...please please please...it would confirm my theory.
528 Pages

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

She's the Man....that's all I'm going to say.... Rub some dirt on it.
...So that's where the quote "Some are born great..." comes from....
96 Pages

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Love is so dramatic. But same.
If I were but a man... Don't we all think that.
108 Pages

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

....So I remember some of the quotes from the time when they performed it in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 
"Though she is little, she is but fierce"
Robin Goodfellow is having too much fun...and yet he is working overtime.
96 Pages

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

"....The world's a stage, and all men and women merely players" What a monologue.
Oh gosh Orlando.. He is so smitten.

102 Pages

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates

Laura Bates was an English professor who began teaching Shakespeare to inmates in Indiana prisons. She eventually managed to get the prison system to allow her to teach a Shakespeare class in ‘SuperMax’; the ‘prison within a prison’ for the most violent, incorrigible criminals.

 

In this memoir, Bates describes the “Shakespeare in Shackles” where she met Larry Newton. Newton spent over 10 years in solitary confinement; as a teenager he murdered a man and got life in prison without parole in return for pleading guilty. Newton got Bates’ attention with his first essay about Richard III. He posed questions on topics such as honor, revenge and conscience.

 

The impact of Shakespeare's works, primarily Macbeth and Hamlet,  on Newton was so powerful that he became a teacher, prepared  workbooks to help inmates study, and helped create videos to inform other inmates about the relevance of Shakespeare to their lives. And the impact on  Bates has led her to ask questions such as: Should the state pay for educational programs to rehabilitate criminals? Need we be concerned about the inhumane and unsanitary conditions that exist in some American prisons? Can we prevent juvenile offenders from become career criminals?

 

An interesting read.

 

308 pages