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I had heard a lot about Ellen Hopkins' young adult books but I haven't gotten around to reading any of them. I happened across Triangles on the "New Books" shelf at my library and decided to pick it up.
It wasn't what I was expecting (not in a bad way, mind you). First, I didn't realize that it would be written in sort of a poetry format. It took me awhile to get used to reading that way and it really forced me to slow down a little bit and take in what was going on in the story more.
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It wasn't what I was expecting (not in a bad way, mind you). First, I didn't realize that it would be written in sort of a poetry format. It took me awhile to get used to reading that way and it really forced me to slow down a little bit and take in what was going on in the story more.
Holly, Andre ...more
I started reading Ellen Hopkins' books in verse when I worked in a high school library. It's both a welcome change and joy to read poetry as prose. However, I think I'll stick to her young adult novels. I prefer to have the graphic details of the characters' sex lives left to my imagination. In her YA novels, she concentrates more on the moral dilemmas and real consequences of her characters' actions without dragging me through the minutia of these sexual escapades, as she did in this adult nove
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