Maybe I'm weird....
Oct. 14th, 2020 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulybut I actually like a good bit of exposition in my books.
I mean, the author does have to know how to write compelling monologuing, and ideally it flows in some sort of natural way - but if all the action stops for three pages while our narrator tells me about fainting goats, or why the pinky is more important than the point finger, or about the detailed geopolitical implications of Prince Whoever's abdication from the throne of East Fantasyland? Listen, I'll eat it up with a spoon.
That could just be me.
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Tomoko Sato's Sculpted Foods
Machu Picchu Reopens for a Single Stranded Tourist
Teens Did Surprisingly Well in Quarantine
Meerkat triplets: no school holidays for the baby meerkats (Video with a bit of printed exposition)
Moldy Fruit Sculptures Formed From Precious Gemstones Challenge Perceptions of Decoration and Decay
The Most Dangerous Pole Dance
The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck music
The Holocaust-Surviving Violins That Were Quarantined Beneath a California Stage
Birds are crashing into NYC buildings. Record numbers are being rescued.
How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction
The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery
‘We were students negotiating with armed guerrillas for my father’s life’
AP Road Trip: Racial tensions in America's 'sundown towns'
Stop-and-Frisk Never Really Ended. Now It’s Gone Digital.
Watching the Outrage Over Cuties as a Survivor of Pedophilia
Wildfire smoke in US exposes millions to hazardous pollution
He’d Waited Decades to Argue His Innocence.
A 'second wave' of mental health devastation due to Covid-19 is imminent, experts say
Europe, US reel as virus infections surge at record pace
Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis
I mean, the author does have to know how to write compelling monologuing, and ideally it flows in some sort of natural way - but if all the action stops for three pages while our narrator tells me about fainting goats, or why the pinky is more important than the point finger, or about the detailed geopolitical implications of Prince Whoever's abdication from the throne of East Fantasyland? Listen, I'll eat it up with a spoon.
That could just be me.
Tomoko Sato's Sculpted Foods
Machu Picchu Reopens for a Single Stranded Tourist
Teens Did Surprisingly Well in Quarantine
Meerkat triplets: no school holidays for the baby meerkats (Video with a bit of printed exposition)
Moldy Fruit Sculptures Formed From Precious Gemstones Challenge Perceptions of Decoration and Decay
The Most Dangerous Pole Dance
The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck music
The Holocaust-Surviving Violins That Were Quarantined Beneath a California Stage
Birds are crashing into NYC buildings. Record numbers are being rescued.
How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction
The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery
‘We were students negotiating with armed guerrillas for my father’s life’
AP Road Trip: Racial tensions in America's 'sundown towns'
Stop-and-Frisk Never Really Ended. Now It’s Gone Digital.
Watching the Outrage Over Cuties as a Survivor of Pedophilia
Wildfire smoke in US exposes millions to hazardous pollution
He’d Waited Decades to Argue His Innocence.
A 'second wave' of mental health devastation due to Covid-19 is imminent, experts say
Europe, US reel as virus infections surge at record pace
Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis
