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The Year of the Pen
Whimsical stories and poem to entertain the most boisterous children or the quietest curmudgeon - something for everyone.
273 pages, Paperback
Published May 15, 2011
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October 1, 2023
The stories themselves were good. The author used far too many exclamation points, adjectives, and descriptions. Sometimes I lost the story because of this. For example, describing the centerpiece for a mystery dinner, she wrote “one could see a gun, knife, and a bottle with cross and bones; items one associates with mayhem and murder”. Does she think we need to be told that? If I could go through with a pen and delete a lot of words, what would be left would be much more enjoyable. The first page has eighteen sentences, five of which end in exclamation points. This seems typical of all the rest of the book. I think maybe five should be in the entire book, not the first page of prose. Personally, I think she’d be a great in person storyteller. She did win a writing contest, so maybe she’s more to their taste?
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