Reading Shakespeare Reading Me Kevin J. O'Brien Spiro Mound in rural Oklahoma

Spiro Mound in rural Oklahoma is a few piles of dirt

a wily Filipino skipper was after something more valuable than trochus

In terms of the UKs music history

though brief

and beautifully crafted narratives of travel and memory

Reading Shakespeare Reading Me Kevin J. O'Brien Spiro Mound in rural OklahomaA gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them,