I am a sucker for a good modern retelling of a classic tale; I was an impressionable teenager in the era of Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet, and the innumerable “what if Shakespeare … but in high school!” movies that were an exercise in diminishing returns. With, of course, the exception of Ten Things I Hate About You. Sure, the poem that inspires the title is hokey as shit for a girl who’s as pretentious as Kat is, and it is SO VERY teen movie […]
I guess it shouldn’t have been surprising
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler