Fortieth challenge finish of the year.
I'm not sure how to describe this one. I did enjoy it, because the four main characters were so entirely likable. Well, one of the four might not have been entirely likable, but his relationship with his dog kept him in the likable category for me. :)
The title character was terribly injured in a fire when he was sixteen years old. The relationships around him deal a lot with loneliness, grief, and self-imposed solitude; and yet it is told with humor. Since one of the main characters is a nurse (as was the author), there are some stories of strange hospital/patient happenings.
Forty-first challenge finish of the year.
I read somewhere recently about how much someone (I can't even remember who it was) loved Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, so I looked to see if it was available through our library, and it was available, so I decided to fit it into the challenge reads. I enjoyed it. I've read some of Shakespeare's sonnets and a few of his plays, but didn't really know much about about him or his family.
This is a work of fiction, but was engaging and made me think about the life (and times) of Shakespeare the man. The author did a good job of presenting him in an interesting and entertaining way, as long as one remembers that it is not necessarily all fact.
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