reading

I just finished one of the best books.  "Juliet" by Anne Fortier.  It was so good.  I love Shakespeare's plays. When I was about 13 years old, the movie "Romeo and Juliet" came out.  I went to see it a lot of times.  I even bought the sound track.  I knew that play by heart.  I haven't picked up the play in years and was delighted when I saw the book "Juliet" at Barnes and Nobles.  I read the overview of the book and bought it on my nook.   I was very surprised that the play was based upon a true story.  Shakespeare changed the city in which the true story took place.  The actual story was written as Romeo and Giulietta in 1476 by a writer named Masuccio Salernitano, and went through many changes, it was the story that ended up on Shakespeare's desk.  The original story took place in Siena and Shakespeare placed his story in Verona. 
The book was actually two stories, the story of Romeo and Juliet and the story of a modern Romeo and Juliet.  I liked that the modern story ended happy instead of in tragedy as the original version.  I have read about 30 or more books this summer and this was far the best book I have read.  I finished it in about 2 days.