More books!

Today I want to talk about a couple of books which are written in a style I really like.

Dreaming of Amelia (Jaclyn Moriarty) is an exciting, quirky YA book - what makes it so unusual is that the story is told through personal memoirs written by students in an examination, and also by blog articles and comments.

Also using the multiple-narrative style is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is made up of journal entries, telegrams and letters written by the main characters. It's incredibly realistic, more so than any other fantasy novel I've read, thanks to the well-researched facts that are weaved into the imaginative elements. The descriptions are rich and the characters are all strongly crafted. I'd recommend it to anybody who's willing to stick at it - the old-English idioms take a bit of reading!

When I started writing my own book, I started playing around a bit with multiple first person narratives, and reading these two books convinced me to properly apply the style to my own work. There are two main narrators in my book, with three other minor ones. Two chapters are also Internet chatroom conversations, and a further chapter is mostly made up of notes between two characters.

On Monday I'm going on holiday for a fortnight, but in my absence please take a look at my book. Thanks, Isabel :)