So many books—so little time or so it seems when I look at the stack growing on my desk. Some deserve immediate attention though. For instance:
Ellen
Hopkins' books for the Young Adult audience are written in verse. [Tilt,
Perfect, Collateral, Fallout – to name but a few ] A very unique and
interesting style, to say the least. Some
pages the occasional words, still part of the verse, but running down one side
or the other almost as a side bar, are a sentence themselves when read alone; but,
they add meaning when you read the full version in verse including those words.
So unique, edgy, but wonderful. She has many books, you'll think --so little time, how can I read them all. Thank you Autumn for introducing her to our
Amberg Writers Group. If you haven't seen her books yet, so a search on Amazon
and be prepared to be impressed and pleased, even if you aren't a young adult.
These books are good! [Amazon link http://tinyurl.com/8fqksos ]
Ellery Queen—Did
you know---I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't—he is not real, he's the pseudonym of
two men, Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee. I picked up a copy of The Finishing Stroke, copyright 1958. It
was recommended reading by my instructor, Carolyn Wheat, at The Long Ridge
Writers Group School, because my work in progress is about twins who were separated
from their brother at birth. It means they were actually triplets—strange premise
I thought, perhaps, but—Ms. Wheat's suggestion to read The Finishing Stroke proves, at least to me, there are no new
ideas, only new ways authors look at and choose to show them.
Novels in
verse, Ellen Hopkins unique perspective, two men writing as one whom we've
known forever as Ellery Queen, or even Angela Lansbury's novels written by her Murder She Wrote character, Jessica
Fletcher. Creativity-- not trickery, it's uniqueness that counts.
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