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an irritation
I have enjoyed Stacey Ballis's books -they are decently written chick lit. My library doesn't have all of her titles, so I bought two of her books on Amazon. In one of her first books, Room for Improvement, she kept writing alliterative sentences that were so jarring I started to get really irritated. Her later books don't do this, so I am guessing an editor told her to knock it off. Here is an example:
I’m perturbed by the fact that I now perceive that perhaps I have a personality disorder which made me behave perfunctorily when I should have been persistent, and that my perfidious performance may perversely keep the breech between me and this sort of perfect-ish man, well, permanent.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Re: an irritation
52 Books in 2014??
My sweet babies:
Interesting that this ridiculous over-use of alliteration is irritating, and meanwhile one of the things that made me love the book Lolita so much was Nabakov's beautiful use of the same device. I listened to the audio book, which was read by Jeremy Irons, so that probably helped me notice it more.
ETA: I just tried to google to make sure my recollection was correct that it actually was Jeremy Irons that narrated, and apparently my work employs "google SafeSearch," which edited the word "lolita" out of my search! And I cannot turn SafeSearch off. Weird.
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