Perhaps there is a better way to communicate my feelings about this book… I never physically read an Alexis Hall book until this year. I loved their writing, and had listened to multiple audiobooks of AH books. When I first started reading one of Hall‘s books, I noticed the grammar wasn‘t “correct.” If I had read my first AH book, I may have never read another. I may have never finished that first book.
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GingerAntics Is style, that is perfectly clear and understandable, with great story telling, somehow less than because it‘s not written within the same rules as an academic paper? Not even all academic papers follow the same rules, so how can we hold works of fiction to those same standards. If an author‘s writing becomes unclear, unintelligible to you, now you have a problem. Until then, it‘s a stylistic choice. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 3w
GingerAntics Hall writes the way people think. People talk the way they think. This shouldn‘t be “wrong.” It is only wrong by modern standards, as until modern times one could write as they chose as long as the point was clear. Maybe we need to return to that a little bit, especially when talking about literature. #CeceliaWatson #Semicolon #Grammar #AlexisHall #PushTheBoatOutHall (edited) 3w
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