Spanking Shakespeare

Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner 5 stars

Come on, if your parents had named you Shakespeare, what kind of chance would you have of being a successful teenager? Shakespeare Shapiro is a high school senior and he’s got problems. Other than his name, that is. He can’t get a girl (his younger brother has more experience with girls than he does); he has to write his senior memoir and essays for college; his parents are absolute freaks; and his best friend charts bowel movements for fun.

This hysterically funny novel from first-time writer Jake Wizner, is told from Shakespeare’s point of view. It is the story of his woe- is- me life stemming from the day his parents named him. Each chapter of his memoir tells a funny anecdote from his life, with titles like: The Time My Parents Sent Me to a Camp Straight out of Lord of the Flies; The Time I Watched a Pornographic Movie with My Mentally Unstable Grandmother; The Time I Got Hit in the Face by a Baseball at a Yankees-Red Sox Game; and The Time I Visited a Sex Doctor.
Shakespeare is an easily likable character with a great self-deprecating sense of humor. And crazy as his parents are, they are fun.
A nice, light, and easy read.
posted by Lori