laurieperry417 's review for:

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

3.0

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Meh. This was all right, certainly nothing special or memorable and definitely below my expectations for Anne Tyler, whose books I usually love. It's a retelling of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," which I'll admit to not being very familiar with. (I've never seen "Kiss Me Kate" either, which I really should, right?) This book is a part of a broader project to rewrite Shakespeare plays by contemporary authors (Margaret Atwood, Gillian Flynn, Tracey Chevalier). I'm not opposed to Shakespeare reinterpretations, and might even look at others in this collection (especially Macbeth and Hamlet)... but this particular book was short-and-sweet and just didn't thrill me. Kate was not entirely unlikable and her situation with her father and Pytor was not completely unbelievable, but that's faint praise indeed.