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McLemore, Anna-Marie- The Influencers

I don't read lots of mysteries, books about rich people, or anything about influencers, but I was intrigued by this book when I saw a galley at a librarian convention. I'm glad I picked it up. It kept me entertained for over 400 pages, and helped me break a reading slump.

The premise is that a mommy vlogger has alienated her five grown daughters, who had their childhoods mined for content. So, when their step-father is killed, all five daughters are suspects. The five daughters all have varying commitments to their privacy and conflicting feelings about both their mother, May, and their stepfather. (BIT OF A SPOILER) All these things are teased out while someone is leaking private footage of them online. (/end spoiler)

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Here's remade masterpost of free and full shakespeare adaptations! Thanks @william-shakespeare-official for this excellent post. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in it are broken, so I thought I'd make an updated version (also I just wanted to organize things a bit more)

Anthony and Cleopatra: ~ Josette Simon, Antony Byrne & Ben Allen - 2017

As You Like It: ~ At Wolfe Park - 2013 ~ Kenneth Brannagh's - 2006

Coriolanus: ~ NYET Alumni - 2016 ~ Tom Hiddleston - 2014 ~ Ralph Fiennes - 2011

Cymbelline: ~ Michael Almereyda's - 2014

Hamlet: ~ David Tennant - 2009 ~ Ethan Hawke & Diane Venora - 2000 ~ Kenneth Branagh's - 1989 ~ BCC's Part One & Two - 1990 ~ Broadway - 1964 ~ Christopher Plummer - 1964 ~ Laurence Olivier's - 1948

Henry IV: ~ BBC's Part One & Two - 1989 ~ The Brussel's Shakespeare Society's - 2017

Henry V: ~ The BBC's - 1990 ~ Laurence Olivier's - 1944

Julius Caesar: ~ Phyllida Lloyd's - 2019 ~ The BBC's - 1979 ~ John Gielgud - 1970

King Lear: ~ The RSC's - 2008 ~ Laurence Olivier - 1983 ~ The BBC's - 1975 ~ James Earl Jones - 1974 ~ Orson Wells - 1953

Love's Labour's Lost: ~ Calvin University - 2016

Macbeth: ~ Antoni Cimolino & Shelagh O'Brien's - 2017 ~ Ian McKellen & Judi Dench - 1969 ~ Sean Connery - 1961

Measure for Measure: ~ Hugo Weaving - 2019 ~ The BBC's - 1990

The Merchant of Venice: ~ Al Pacino - 2004 ~ Trevor Nunn & Chris Hunt - 2001 ~ The BBC's - 1980 ~ Lawrence Olivier - 1973

The Merry Wives of Windsor: ~ The Royal Shakespeare Company's - 1982

A Midsummer Night's Dream: ~ Oliver Chris & Gwendoline Christie - 2019 ~ City of Columbus's - 2018 ~ The Globe's - 2013 ~ The BBC's - 1988 ~ Lindsay Duncan & Alex Jennings - 1986

Much Ado About Nothing: ~ Shakespeare in the Park - 2019 ~ Kenneth Branagh - 1993 ~ The BBC's - 1984

Othello: ~ The BBC's Part One & Two - 1990

Richard II: ~ David Tennant - 2013 ~ Deborah Warner's - 1997 ~ The BBC's - 1978

Richard III: ~ Ian McKellen - 1995 ~ Laurence Olivier - 1955

Romeo and Juliet: ~ Simon Godwin's - 2021 ~ The BBC's - 1988 ~ Laurence Harvey & Susan Shentall - 1954

The Taming of the Shrew: ~ Ontario production? ~ American Conservatory Theater - 1976 ~ Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor - 1967 ~ Mary Pickford & Samuel Taylor - 1929

The Tempest: ~ Gregory Doran's - 2017 ~ The BBC's - 1988

Timon of Athens: ~ Barry Avrich's - 2024

Troilus and Cressida: ~ Audio Production ~ This one I found on youtube? - 2016

Titus Andronicus: ~ Anthony Hopkins - 1999

Twelfth night: ~ Texas Shakespeare Festival's - 2015 ~ Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright & Ralph Richardson - 1970

Two Gentlemen of Verona: ~ Katherine Steweart's - 2018 ~ The BBC's

The Winter's Tale: ~ Antony Sher - 1999 (Warning: they don't have a bear...)

Bonuses:

Time Loop Hamlet! (A personal fav of mine)

Rock Opera Hamlet???

Shakespeare animated tales

The Complete Works Of Shakespeare Abridged comedy

From the original post:

A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.

Russian Hamlet here

Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern Hamlet retelling.

Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here.

This one is the Taming of the Shrew modern retelling.

The french Romeo & Juliet musical with English subtitles is here!

Here's the 1948 one,

the Orson Wells Othello movie with Portuguese subtitles there

A Lego adaptation of Othello here.

Here's commentary on David Tennant's Richard II

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my storygraph reading wrap-up

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I smell winter doodles..

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a year of library holds

I put thirty-six books on hold and suspended the holds, so that each month, three will come up on the holds shelf at the library. I'm super excited, so here's most of the list (a couple got cut off).

DiLouie, Craig: Episode thirteen

Ramírez, Tita: Tell it to me singing

Moore, Liz: The god of the woods

Khan, Shubnum: The Djinn waits a hundred years

Chandrasekera, Vajra: The saint of bright doors

Chang, Abraham: 888 love and the divine burden of numbers

Akbar, Kaveh: Martyr!

Lynch, Paul: Prophet song

Shattuck, Ben: The history of sound: stories

Brooks, Geraldine: Horse

Choo, Yangsze: The fox wife

Patchett, Ann: Tom Lake

Catton, Eleanor: Birnam Wood

Awad, Mona: Bunny

White, Tyriek: We are a haunting

Kingsolver, Barbara: The poisonwood Bible

McConaghy, Charlotte: Migrations

Stringfellow, Tara M: Memphis

Reeves, Cynthia: Last whaler

Kim, Angie: Miracle Creek

Nagamatsu, Sequoia: How high we go in the dark

James, Tania: Loot

Woodson, Jacqueline: Red at the Bone

Miller, Chanel: Know my name

Park, Ed: Same bed different dreams

Díaz, Hernán: Trust

Rowe, Christopher: The navigating fox

Cosby, S. A.: Razorblade tears

Winterson, Jeanette: Night side of the river: ghost stories

Chambers, Becky: A psalm for the wild-built

Mason, Daniel: North woods

Van Pelt, Shelby: Remarkably bright creatures

Jiles, Paulette: News of the world

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I got to read a galley of the Jessica Jones novel coming out Summer '24, and I really liked it.

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Covid brain fog did a number on my reading habit, and I really missed it, but I am back!