After that, Felix throws himself into his work, trying to recreate “The Tempest” with a recasted Miranda as the star. “Hag-Seed” follows Felix, an artistic director at the Makeshiweg Theater Festival, who goes mad after his three-year-old daughter-Miranda-dies of meningitis. While the premise seems promising, “Hag-Seed” fails to deliver, overloading the novel with too many useless details and not enough emotional substance. Despite the temporal and geographical differences between them, the two literarily meet in Margaret Atwood’s “Hag-Seed,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The reworking features prison inmates in its cast and a crazy, rejected theater director as its star. William Shakespeare is an English playwright from the Elizabethan Era, known as England’s national poet. Margaret Atwood is a contemporary author from Canada, known for her novels and her environmental activism.
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Parents who read this book with their teens should have a host of topics to discuss with them, starting with the importance of adolescent mental health. There is nothing age-inappropriate in the book, so expect a smattering of strong language (including occasional use of "f-k" and "s-t") and some brief kissing scenes, but no sex. As in all of Green's books, the teen characters are unabashed nerds: incredibly intelligent, well read, and able to discuss everything from architecture and visual art to philosophy and microbiology with as much ease as they talk about Star Wars trivia and the joys of fanfiction. Green, who has publicly shared he also has OCD, based the main character's struggles on his own lived experience. While that book tackled the issue of teens with cancer, this book centers on a protagonist suffering from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive thoughts and behavior. Parents need to know that Turtles All the Way Down is best-selling author John Green's first novel since 2012's runaway success, The Fault in Our Stars. Wine/champagne is served and passed around at an art gallery exhibit Davis complains about his middle school-aged brother drinking and smoking pot.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. “There’s a certain pleasure in making a person predetermined to dislike instead acknowledge one’s superiority,” she remarks to her fawning companion Mrs. Reginald is intelligent, attractive and wealthy, but for Lady Susan, perhaps the most important thing is that he’s a challenge. Upon arriving, she sets her sights on handsome young Reginald DeCourcy (Xavier Samuel), brother of Charles’ wife Catherine (Emma Greenwell). Lady Susan’s reputation as “the most accomplished flirt in all of England” precedes her as she takes up residence at Churchill, the country estate owned by her late husband’s brother Charles Vernon (Justin Edwards). As a widow, Lady Susan is financially dependent on the generosity of others, but she’s romantically free in a way that few women of her time period are, and she indulges in that freedom by engaging in dalliances with pretty much any man she chooses, regardless of his marital status. But Lady Susan is entirely selfish, interested in her own position and comfort, even at the expense of her timid daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark). As much of a busybody as Emma Woodhouse is in Austen’s Emma, at least her intentions are honorable. In Love & Friendship, Kate Beckinsale plays the delightfully passive-aggressive Lady Susan Vernon, a freeloading widow who revels in meddling in the lives of others, generally to secure the best outcome for herself. |