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Monday, March 30, 2009

Footnotes

What do you think of all the footnotes in this book? Do you find them helpful --- as I recall footnotes are supposed to be?  I find them distracting and too long.  Librarian Amy, are these used correctly?
Also, do you find this story very stream of consciousness in its writing style? Just wondering, it seems to go back and forth and I have a hard time following.
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  1. Amy SpringerMarch 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM

    I was entertained by the footnotes. I can definitely see how you find them distracting. It certainly isn't traditional for fiction to ever have footnotes, so I don't think there are any read rules that the author needs to follow.

    I think b/c of the writing style and voice changes, it's really challenging to read, but I thought it was fun for my brain to try to figure out what was going on. It's definitely not a "passive" read.

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