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I [don’t] wanna live with a Vinegar Girl

March 24, 2017 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This book is from the same series of books as Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed, which I thought was great all around. That book took on the source material and transformed it, and while it did have some over-clever nods to the material, the narrator was aware of the material so it wasn’t schlocky the ways that sometimes these pastiche novels can be. This novel was, sadly. This is a re-doing of The Taming of the Shrew, which is weird to adapt, since 10 Things I hate about You was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anne tyler, vinegar girl

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:118 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anne tyler, vinegar girl ·
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