Saturday, March 8, 2025

Book Note: Practice

Brown, Rosalind. Practice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
And sometimes, as you're reading your way through the latest Modern Shakespearean Novels, you hit on a real clunker.

This time, it was Rosalind Brown's Practice. This novel is about a graduate student not writing her essay on Shakespeare's sonnets.

That's all.

Well, there are many vivid descriptions of trips to the bathroom, long and confusing fantasy sequences, and miscellanea.

There was some interest in the thoughts of a procrastinating student, but it really doesn't add up to anything worth reading.

And there's not much Shakespeare here, either.

I thought I'd mention it so you can have a more informed decision about reading it than I had.

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