A is for Amy, adoption, advertisement, adverse, adornment, adulation, adolescent, adaptation, addiction, admission, adult, advocate, A.D. “What are you reading for school?” “Ugh, I am reading the Scarlet Letter!” “Oh, I loved that book. It was one of my favorites. What do you think?” My son, 16 going on 17 reads a passage describing a side character, to prove how unnecessarily overly descriptive Hawthorn was. “Why? Why is this even in here?” he exclaims. “This contributes nothing to the story.” This is our conversation on the morning drive to school. “Of course, it does. It is not all, about plot.” I argue. “Character development through description not action was the literary style. It is a type of writing I love.” The passage sounded lovely, familiar, like an old friend. “It is torture. In the category of Jules Verne.” Jules Verne, read more than three years ago by my son, has become the metric for antiquated, long-winded fiction in family lore. I could not beli
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