Questions About This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel (Goodreads Author)

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What is with this author and long-winded sentences? Is it just me? How can people put up with sentences like this? "Later, when it turned out Penn and Rosie were going to have to catalog for doctors in a focused, specifics-filled way a life they were living by more of a skin-of-their-teeth/seat-of-their-pants/bundle-of-their-nerves approach, they were glad for the formative moments that coincided with birthdays..."

Rhonda Banford I think it was written exactly as Rosie and Penn thought things in their heads. They are complex characters with non-linear ways of thinking--other re…moreI think it was written exactly as Rosie and Penn thought things in their heads. They are complex characters with non-linear ways of thinking--other related thoughts intruding upon their initial thoughts and needing to be expressed, and multi-descriptors to flesh out the nuances of their thinking. Notice that the children's language is much simpler, as children's language is apt to be. I loved the long, involved sentences--even if I had to go back and re-read them a time or two.(less)

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Every so often Penn refers to the DN, but I must have missed what this acronym stands for?