Enter the Body - by Joy McCullough (Hardcover)
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21 June, 2023
Feminist Shakespeare Retelling
This read like FanFiction and I loved it. Cordelia was my favorite and it probably was because I thought she read as being asexual. All of the girls have such tragic lives and you feel so bad for the way they had been written. All so young and forced to bare the world. I’ve always had a distaste for Romeo and Juliet and I find it funny nobody mentioned any age differences in this book, but I liked the rewrite for Juliet. I also thought it was really cute how modern the girls sounded when they were talking. It made it easier to follow. I would have fallen asleep if we had an entire Shakespearean language to get through. This was an interesting and unique feminist retelling of some famous plays I’m sure a lot of people can relate to. If you are familiar with Shakespeare or like his works in any way but also need some feminine rage I’m sure you’ll like this one. Thank you to Bookish First for this book!
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30 May, 2023
Battling the Bard
I really enjoyed this book! Enter the Body is a re-imagining of some of Shakespeare's most famous female characters. We meet Juliet, Cordelia, Ophelia and Lavinia underneath the trapdoor after their deaths onstage, along with others. They each tell their own story and then converse about the what-ifs. What if they got to choose how the story ended? Would they find a happily ever after? Would there still be tragedy? What matters is that they would each have a choice in how their story played out. This novel is told in verse format, along with some screenplay like dialogue between our main characters. There's so much depth and connection that you can feel with this format. I especially loved Juliet's sections, mainly because that's the story I'm most familiar with, but there was so much wit and sass in her sections. I loved the creativity. While these stories are classics from Shakespeare for a reason, you can also see the injustices his female characters suffer, especially at the hands of others and misogyny in general. I definitely would recommend this to anyone who enjoys Shakespeare or retellings.
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19 May, 2023
Interesting format
Enclosed in a room beneath a stage by a trapdoor, teenage girls from Shakespeare’s works tell their stories in their own words. ENTER THE BODY uses an interesting format which caught my attention and was what initially made me pick up the book. Narration alternates between the characters with each girl having a different style of poetry used to highlight her story. Dialogue between the characters is written as a play. I really enjoyed the girls telling their stories and though it’s been a very long time since I’ve read Shakespeare, I followed along quite well. Where the book began to fall apart for me was with the dialogue. Much of it consisted of bickering between characters which became rather annoying and I found myself rushing to get past it as it detracted from my overall enjoyment. Nonetheless, I’m glad that I read ENTER THE BODY. It gives an opportunity to think about Shakespeare’s female characters in a different way and also consider the consequences of one’s voice being stifled.
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15 May, 2023
Soooo good
I loved this book and it was not what I was expecting. The first preview made me interested and the book followed through. It was engaging and for a ya book I love that it dealt with and showed amazing strong women's. It gives me &Juliet and Six (the Tony nominated broadway shows) also but with so much to say. I loved seeing something such a big school subject be reigned for women now who often had to hear these female focused stories through a male lens. I loved seeing Shakespeare women take the lead and its the first time I have wanted to reread Shakespeare whose stories I love but cannot read for his writing style. I love stories where women take control of their own narratives and see stories we think we new so well added onto in ways that even further develop and help you see them in a new light. I loved Enter the Body and think its truly a special very unique book.