Judy Lindow answers “I have a question with the layout of this...”

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I have a question with the layout of this book. When I looked at the Kindle sample online, there was no dialogue. Was this a mistake? Or is there literally zero dialogue throughout the book? I'm a sucker for a good historical fiction book so I'm very interested in reading this book but unsure with how it's laid out.

Judy Lindow No quotation marks is growing on me. It seems to add fluidity to my experience, at least. I don't know if this is handled 100% of the time with key wo…moreNo quotation marks is growing on me. It seems to add fluidity to my experience, at least. I don't know if this is handled 100% of the time with key words like 'said' and 'thought' or descriptively - but enough so that if I was curious, I could do a quick reread to find out. In the real world our thoughts, actions, words meld more smoothly that the use of quotation marks demands. I think in new eras we are reading faces and imagine reading minds with more empathy; we're evolving a new intuition that makes 'speaking' and 'thinking' less demarcated. Punctuation (in this case quotation marks), and dialogue are actually two different things. (less)

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