Hinton Happenings: Shakespeare Saved My Life

Monday, June 21, 2021

Shakespeare Saved My Life

Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I highly recommend this non-fiction book. Laura Bates, a college English professor spends her Friday nights teaching Shakespeare in the Indiana Federal Prison. She meets a man there, Larry Newton, who has a brilliant mind. Convicted to life without parole, Shakespeare gives him purpose and hope. It is a remarkable story and so worth the read.

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“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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Monday, June 21, 2021

Shakespeare Saved My Life

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