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I selected this as my pick for the 2018 PopSugar Ultimate Reading Challenge advanced prompt "an allegory." This epistolary novel was an incredibly fast and enjoyable read; I finished it in a single day. The story is set in Nollop, a fictional island off the South Carolina coast and home to the inventor the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. The inhabitants have erected a monument to the pangram and its deceased inventor; however, when the letter Z falls from the monument, islan
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While the story was simply outrageous - why would a falling letter from a statue on a remote island require us to stop using that letter? - the execution was exceptional. Ella and some of her friends and relations have lucky names that take a while to change due to falling letters; those names were not chosen accidentally. The epistolary nature of the story was endearing, since the narration of a regularly-told story would have to break the very rules that the citizens have to follow. (The autho
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Cute, enjoyable, easy read.
Apr 07, 2011
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