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R-r-read
R-r-read rated it 12 years ago
The GoodHamlet's craziness. I loved that this modern adaptation keeps the manic, desperate feeling you get when reading the original Hamlet. His outrageous antics and his uncanny ability to talk in circles while saying nothing and everything at once were absolutely perfect.The tragedy. The way the s...
Katie's Book Blog!!
Katie's Book Blog!! rated it 12 years ago
Well I could not have picked a better book for my first readers' choice review. If my recommendations keep being this awesome, I may just have to read nothing but recommendations from you guys!A Wounded Name is a retelling of Hamlet. I'm a huge Shakespeare buff so maybe that's why I loved this one...
Reading Between Classes
Reading Between Classes rated it 12 years ago
This and other reviews can be found on Reading Between ClassesCover Impressions: Very pretty. I love how she is leaping into the water, rather than falling as is common in a lot of YA covers. The Gist: A re-telling of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the eyes of Ophelia.Review:I have been seriously pr...
Zemira Djedović
Zemira Djedović rated it 12 years ago
Hamlet's my favorite Shakespeare tragedy. His other work combined together can't top this masterpiece. So when I first saw someone was publishing a retelling I just had to have it. Not everyone has the talent and the guts to try out to integrate Shakespeare into their work. Dot Hutchison did an outs...
Pixie Lynn Whitfield
Pixie Lynn Whitfield rated it 12 years ago
If it hadn’t been for perhaps some of the most beautiful writing I’ve experienced this year, I may not have finished this book in the first place. A Wounded Name was one of the titles I highly coveted just for the simple fact it was a Hamlet re-telling, which I’d already read a re-telling earlier ...
Flying Kick-a-pow!
Flying Kick-a-pow! rated it 12 years ago
You can also read this review on Flying Kick-a-pow! Reviews.Thank you NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book!To love is to hurt, either in giving pain or in suffering it. Which helps more with grief: feeling the pain or sharing it?Summary:Sixteen-year-old Ophelia Castellan can see ghost...
isamlq
isamlq rated it 12 years ago
you know how this story ends… except where the first focused on his (in)sanity, his grief, and the lot of them getting caught up in one plot then another, this focuses on her. how maybe (just maybe) she’s more than daughter, sister, lover… or while she was those things, she’s not passive in the same...
Erin's Books
Erin's Books rated it 12 years ago
A Wounded Name is based on the story of Hamlet but told in the voice of Ophelia. Of course we all know the tragic ending to the story but Dot Hutchison gives us a new perspective and writes it so beautifully I was immediately drawn into this book. As I sit here wondering what I could possibly writ...
Bibliopunkk
Bibliopunkk rated it 12 years ago
A Wounded Name is a debut novel by Dot Hutchison releasing this September. The book is a contemporary retelling of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. I'm going to presume that many of you know the original story so I will not completely rehash it. I prefer instead to talk about Hutchison's brilliant take...
Books and Whimsy
Books and Whimsy rated it 12 years ago
I tried, I promise. According to my Nook I made it a bit over halfway, but I swear, those 200 pages were the LONGEST and MOST DEPRESSING pages I've ever read in my life. What I liked: the writing style was gorgeous, and I wanted to wrap it around me forever and ever. Seriously, Hutchison is a VER...
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