You may read a lot and have found many of these unusual ways authors share their stories. If not, be aware that all books are not straight forward. Here are a few tricks that may entice you or, if you are unaware of what is being done, these methods may cause you to close the books or even toss them across the room in mild anger.<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books with no paragraph separation<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Entire books in poetic form (E Hopkins)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books with excessive punctuation (E.E.Cummings)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books without quotation marks to alert you to who is speaking (C. McCarthy)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books with NO punctuation at all\u00a0 (W. Faulkner, J.Joyce, G. Stein)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books where you flip from one person, place and time to another and back again and again\u00a0 (Clancy)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books written at a pace to represent the mood or general speed of a person’s life\u00a0 (S. Platt, O’Nan about SC Fitzgerald)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books with no signals that you’ve moved into and out of flashbacks\u00a0 (A. Tan)<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books that keep distinct speaking patterns going through the entire book<\/p>\n
**\u00a0 Books where jargon or specialized terms are never explained within the text or in a glossary<\/p>\n
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What other distinctive book styles have you encountered?? Send them long. I’ll share them another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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