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In my book the author uses a ton of interesting and unique techniques that not many other authors use. These techniques really hooked me in when I’m reading. An example of where the author really draws you in is where it says,

“Still in my room still raining still Sunday

11:30 a.m.

I don’t see why I can’t have a lock on my bedroom door. Every time I suggest anything around this place, people start shaking their heads and tutting. It’s like living in a house full of chickens dressed in frocks and trousers. Or a house full of those nodding dogs, or a house full of. . . anyway. . .I can’t have a lock on my door is the short and short of it.

“Why not?” I asked Mum reasonably (catching her in one of the rare minutes when she’s not at Italian evening class or at another party).

“Because you might have an accident and we couldn’t get in,” she said.”

What is happening in this section of the book is that Georgia (the main character) is writing a diary of her life and this is her explaining her day and her life. Some things in this part of the book that really hooked me as a reader was that the author used dialogue, the fact that she writes in diary form with the date and time, she uses words that we wouldn’t normally use like ‘frocks’, and lastly she writes in 1^st person. A lot of writers don’t normally write with a lot of these things. I have never read a book in diary form and I really like how she does this. Since I don’t normally find book written in that form and with all those other things incorporated this book really hooked me because it was so uncommon. I personally haven’t really been hooked on a lot of books, but this one really had me hooked on page one.