Welcome to the 2015 Mark Twain Blog!!
First book...
Rating of 9/10
I really enjoyed this work of historical fiction. I especially appreciate that the author told me a the end which characters were real and which were fictional. She also went through her process for ideas, planning and writing.
This summer I am going to specifically look at some of the writers craft that the authors use in their pieces. It did have a great lead and conclusion. She tied the beginning and ending together nicely…
Beginning: “What we now call The Great Trouble began one thick, hot, foul-smelling morning in August.”
Ending: “But then again, so had all of us that summer when The Great Trouble had come to Broad Street.
And somehow, we had survived.
This particular book had figurative language out the wazoo! I have chosen just a few to give you a taste.
Alliteration: “So when he spied me snatchin’ up something shiny from the murky water…”
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