Hamnet
Ratings222
Average rating4.2
i initially DNFd this book back in 2022 during the summer of finishing year 13 and starting uni; i DNFd it because i was trying to figure out what i wanted to take with me to uni. now that i’m going into my third and final year of my undergrad, i’ve had time to read. i enjoyed the storyline in the first part of the book, but then the second part i think just should’ve been a chapter or two followed by an epilogue. i don’t think it was worth the pages it was…
i initially DNFd this book back in 2022 during the summer of finishing year 13 and starting uni; i DNFd it because i was trying to figure out what i wanted to take with me to uni. now that i’m going into my third and final year of my undergrad, i’ve had time to read. i enjoyed the storyline in the first part of the book, but then the second part i think just should’ve been a chapter or two followed by an epilogue. i don’t think it was worth the pages it was…
Gorgeous, engrossing, and thought-provoking. A fictional speculation on the connection between the real-life death of Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, and his subsequent writing of Hamlet, which dramatized the relationship between a father and son in death. My only criticism is that the book’s idealization of Anne Hathaway felt overdone, but even that idealization was enjoyable if I let go and allowed myself to partake in the modern fantasy of the perfectly wise healer-witch-rebel woman.
Gorgeous, engrossing, and thought-provoking. A fictional speculation on the connection between the real-life death of Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, and his subsequent writing of Hamlet, which dramatized the relationship between a father and son in death. My only criticism is that the book’s idealization of Anne Hathaway felt overdone, but even that idealization was enjoyable if I let go and allowed myself to partake in the modern fantasy of the perfectly wise healer-witch-rebel woman.
