{"id":397,"date":"2012-01-04T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/cindy2\/index.php\/2012\/01\/04\/novels-in-verse\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:54:58","slug":"novels-in-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/04\/novels-in-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Novels in Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most novels in verse annoy me because I\u2019m not sure why they\u2019re not in prose. They\u2019re more interrupted lines rather than poetry. A few are works of poetry (see Sonya Sones\u2014especially Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy<\/em>) and a few need to be brief because of topic (see Patricia McCormick\u2019s Sold<\/em>), but often they\u2019re just\u2026short.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, sometimes I like to read something short, something I can sit down and read in an afternoon or evening. And, truthfully, after a few pages when I get caught up in the characters and the story, I don\u2019t notice the form that much anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"My first book read for 2012 was the verse novel, Three Rivers Rising<\/em> by Jame Richards. This is a historical novel that takes place in 1889 when the Johnstown Flood wiped out several towns in Pennsylvania. The flood was caused when a dam for a fishing pond at a wealthy resort dumped 20 million tons of water on the valley below. <\/span><\/p>\n

The story is told in verse, alternating between wealthy Celestia, the hired boy from the village she falls in love with Peter, a nurse, Celestia\u2019s father, and others. Class consciousness, which has partially caused this flood, is evident in the love story between Celestia and Peter. I was so caught up in the story, I didn\u2019t notice how late it was until I finished. Read this one!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other novels in verse you might enjoy:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (about living in the Dust Bowl)
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Exposed by Kim Marcus (about an abusive relationship with a best friend’s brother)\"\"
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\"\"Ringside, 1925 by Jen Bryant (about the Scopes monkey trial)
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Day of Tears by Julius Lester (about a slave auction)\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n


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Happy New Year and Happy Reading!
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Most novels in verse annoy me because I\u2019m not sure why they\u2019re not in prose. They\u2019re more interrupted lines rather than poetry. A few are works of poetry (see Sonya Sones\u2014especially Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy) and a few need to be brief because of topic (see Patricia McCormick\u2019s Sold), … Continue reading “Novels in Verse”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}