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Let us all shout

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

May 14, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Another thrift store find. My copy is missing the dust jacket, and its pages are stained by an unknown substance on the bottom of the book, but I’m not gonna complain too much for $2.99. I recognized the author, yet I cannot recall with certainty whether I read her most well-known work, Speak, or not. I have this nagging suspicion that I have read something by her, but I can’t place for sure what. Regardless, I picked up Shout because of that familiarity and my […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Laurie Halse Anderson, shout

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Laurie Halse Anderson, shout ·
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I guess I just don’t get the “narrative in verse” sensibility.

SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson

December 30, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This three (and a half) star rating is entirely personal preference. I just would prefer that this book was in prose instead of verse. I would nearly always prefer a work be in verse if it is possible. Obviously if your aim is to write poems, individually crafted ones with like, a poetic aim or whatever (I have no idea why poets do what they do) that’s not gonna work. But here, this is a memoir, and while there were several “poems” that worked as […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: #memoir, Laurie Halse Anderson, memoir in verse, narfna, poetry, read harder challenge 2020, shout, verse

narfna's CBR12 Review No:189 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: #memoir, Laurie Halse Anderson, memoir in verse, narfna, poetry, read harder challenge 2020, shout, verse ·
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