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From: Hannah Gómez <hannahgomez_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:35:48 -0700
This is an interesting point. I actually kind of had an idea of where it was going, because it reminded me of Heidi Durrow's *The Girl Who Fell from the Sky*.
I wonder if this, as my colleagues and I have noticed with *We Were Liars*, is a case of it being a twist that you learn to expect, maybe not explicitly but implicitly and nonspecifically (not that I felt the book was a cliche, only that I could have an idea of its direction) but based on being a more seasoned reader who simply has more of an archive of past reading experiences to compare it with (again, I think this is mostly on a subconscious level).
Hannah Gómez, MA, MSLIS hannahgomez_at_gmail.com http://hannahgomez.wix.com/portfolio
(520) 481-8778
> I wonder why Stephanie did not more explicitly prepare the reader for the
> decision that the kids make. ( I'm trying not to reveal too much.) It
> seemed to me to be such an enormous decision that I found it hard to
> believe, without more background and build-up. Why did Stephanie choose to
> reveal the facts of the incident--and possibly some hints about what led up
> to it--only vaguely, almost only by innuendo? I felt it must have been a
> deliberate decision.
>
> Thank you, Stephanie, for any comments you care to make on this. And
> congratulations!
>
> Elsa
> www.elsamarston.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Wed 23 Jul 2014 01:36:32 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:35:48 -0700
This is an interesting point. I actually kind of had an idea of where it was going, because it reminded me of Heidi Durrow's *The Girl Who Fell from the Sky*.
I wonder if this, as my colleagues and I have noticed with *We Were Liars*, is a case of it being a twist that you learn to expect, maybe not explicitly but implicitly and nonspecifically (not that I felt the book was a cliche, only that I could have an idea of its direction) but based on being a more seasoned reader who simply has more of an archive of past reading experiences to compare it with (again, I think this is mostly on a subconscious level).
Hannah Gómez, MA, MSLIS hannahgomez_at_gmail.com http://hannahgomez.wix.com/portfolio
(520) 481-8778
> I wonder why Stephanie did not more explicitly prepare the reader for the
> decision that the kids make. ( I'm trying not to reveal too much.) It
> seemed to me to be such an enormous decision that I found it hard to
> believe, without more background and build-up. Why did Stephanie choose to
> reveal the facts of the incident--and possibly some hints about what led up
> to it--only vaguely, almost only by innuendo? I felt it must have been a
> deliberate decision.
>
> Thank you, Stephanie, for any comments you care to make on this. And
> congratulations!
>
> Elsa
> www.elsamarston.com
>
>
>
>
>
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