IR VERDICT:
SHAKESPEARE’S BOOK OF WISDOM gleans sixty quotes from Shakespeare designed to guide a reader towards a wiser and happier life. Beyond offering the bard’s thoughts on topics that vary from “trust that your life has meaning” to “get enough sleep,” author Rob Crisell provides additional quotes from spiritual sages, along with his own interpretation of Shakespeare’s texts. If one sometimes wishes the book drilled even deeper, it nevertheless provides a wealth of well-chosen nuggets of wisdom, all worth chewing on again and again— it would make a fine gift volume.