This memoir about using poetry to cope with grief and suffering sounds interesting.

However, this book, Three Bags Full, just sounds odd, almost odd enough for me to try to scare up a copy and read it. From a review in The Guardian:

The crime-fighting sheep in Three Bags Full derive their particular genius from George the shepherd having read to them every evening – mostly romantic fiction featuring red-haired women called Pamela, a genre which the sheep naturally refer to as “Pamelas”, a phrase clearly worth stealing for one’s own.

Yes, you read that correctly, it’s a German sheep detective novel, translated into English, in which a flock of sheep solve a murder mystery. I guess they’ve exhausted all the possible human detectives. What next? The Frog Detective?

In the news in India, Shakespeare goes to Bollywood? I’m not finding it too difficult to imagine Ophelia or Desdemona in a sari, but near the bottom of the article it says that one Indian director is planning a Bollywood adaptation of Little Women. I am finding that hard to envision.