While in general, I’m not a fan of topics of science, I do enjoy history, and I adore verse novels. (One of the few books I’ve read this year that was actually on my TBR list for 2019.) This book is by author Jeannine Atkins and is entitled Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, and it’s a story that I cannot wait to share with you. This said, I had the privilege of reading a beautiful verse novel during the past few weeks. In short, epic poetry is more plot focused while verse novels are focused mainly on the internal construction of the characters and story world. The modern verse novel has a much more distinct form, created primarily from first-person accounts of a story which are written in free verse but have a very specific sense of rhythm and fuller, more evocative emotion and vivid images that tie into the themes of the story. However, epic poems and verse novels are distinctly different. Some people argue that they existed as far back as tales such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Odyssey, and Iliad. Verse novels are a fairly new medium, their history beginning in 1996 with the publication of Steven Herrick’s young adult verse novel Love, Ghosts, and Nose Hair. It’s a novel, a story, written in poetic verse. For those of you who are unaware of what a verse novel is, it is exactly that. One of my favorite genres of books is actually the verse novel.
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