alliepeduto 's review for:

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls by Ian Doescher

3.0

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For some reason, 2019 has become the year of Shakespeare related things for me. I have managed to not read or see any of his actual plays but have read and seen numerous things in direct relation to the bard. For example, take the book I read earlier this year for the Popsugar Reading Challenge, Romeo and/or Juliet. Or the reread I did of Tom Stoppard’s classic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge. And I recently saw not one, but two Shakespeare themed performances, the first being a stage version of one of my favorite movies, Shakespeare in Love, and the other being a comedy routine of all of Shakespeare’s play performed in 90 minutes (I highly recommend that one, it was hysterical). So when I saw this in the Goodreads Choice Awards Humor category, it was a no brainer. Plus, what Millennial woman doesn’t like Mean Girls? Currently I’m on the hunt for the nearest city that is getting the musical, but this was a fun interlude for me in the meantime. I was actually really impressed with the author and the fact he modeled each character into existing Shakespeare roles, and my favorite quotes were all beautifully rendered! It's nothing life changing, but it was perfect reading while waiting around or watching crap TV.