baronessekat | 2019 reading challenge: A book set on college or university campus

The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

really a 3.5 stars

Sequel to "Dear Committee Members". It's the year after the happenings in the first book and the disgruntled Professor Jason Fitger is now the Chair of the Department of English. Now he's the one who has to deal with the issues he complained about in the first book, sort out the problems with the other department members, as well as adjust to having a department secretary who will not put up with his nonsense.

While enjoyable, I will say that I enjoyed "Dear Committee Members" better. Unlike the first book this is an actual novel and not an epistolary that we see the goings on only through the writing of the one character. Instead we get to see everything, not just through Fitger's eyes, but through many of those he interacts with. I have to say I did really enjoy seeing him through his ex-wife's eyes.

I will also add that I did this as an audiobook and the author was the reader. While she did not do a bad job, I did not find her as engaging as other audiobook narrators, especially the one who read the first book.

All in all, it was a solid, enjoyable book and I would say that if you read the first one, or in anyway a part of the bureaucracy of collegiate life, you would enjoy this one too.

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