25 May 2025

By Any Other Name - by Jodi Picoult

Once again, this author has delivered. The use of two parallel stories is ingenious and very well executed. The thread taking place more or less contemporaneously has a tone that sounds modern and American; the thread in the Middle Ages in England has its appropriate tone without being written in 17th Century English, which would have been a very hard read. All in all, the argument that Shakespeare was not actually the author of his plays was, IMHO, very convincing.

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