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wishfulclicking) wrote2009-12-07 04:51 pm
wishfulclicking) wrote2009-12-07 04:51 pm
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Books: I've got the Touch!
From the previous post about first person pov and books, specifically YA, (oh and thank you so much for all of the book recs and discussion!), I just took that day when every YA book except one was first person was more a fluke based on my habit of being drawn to certain kinds of cover and some other random things; I also took more a look at other books I read to see how they fell. Three of my favorites books used first person: She's Come Undone, I Know This Much is True (both written by Wally Lamb), and Tenderness* all used first person.
Tenderness gets the * because it uses both first person present and third person past to differentiate between the two povs of the main characters; and more immediacy the first person presents is definitely wielded to an advantage in that book. I'll probably talk about the book more later.
But to where I discover a hidden skill: so I pick up my requested books from the library, and wouldn't you know that three out of four of them are written in the first person! It's kind of amazing in a trivial way. Only one is YA, though two others had younger protagonists, they are aimed at a more adult market.
While I do wish to have a more profitably quirk, like finding random sums of money, this one is cool too. To complete it, I feel I should read a book, that isn't CYOA, written in the second person; also, I don't remember any books written in the future tense. Any suggestions?
Oh and the books I got from the library are Caucasia, Gentlemen, Billy, and Fledgling.
Tenderness gets the * because it uses both first person present and third person past to differentiate between the two povs of the main characters; and more immediacy the first person presents is definitely wielded to an advantage in that book. I'll probably talk about the book more later.
But to where I discover a hidden skill: so I pick up my requested books from the library, and wouldn't you know that three out of four of them are written in the first person! It's kind of amazing in a trivial way. Only one is YA, though two others had younger protagonists, they are aimed at a more adult market.
While I do wish to have a more profitably quirk, like finding random sums of money, this one is cool too. To complete it, I feel I should read a book, that isn't CYOA, written in the second person; also, I don't remember any books written in the future tense. Any suggestions?
Oh and the books I got from the library are Caucasia, Gentlemen, Billy, and Fledgling.