This week, I continued reading "Peeled" by Joan Bauer. I finally got far enough into the book (about 130 pages in) to get to the real plot. If your planning on reading this novel, make sure you stick with it until at least page 100 because thats when it starts to get interesting. Personally, I was thinking of abandoning the book when not much had happened, but I'd heard so many great reviews, so I figured it MUST get better. It did. :]
Anyway, this week I'm going to talk about my favorite quote I've read so far:
"Murder is a big word for a small town." To me, this quote says that murder almost never happens in their tiny town. It means that it was a huge shock, surprise, stunned, and left the whole little community completely in awe. Basically, even saying the word murder is a mouthful for the residents of such a town. Though the meaning of the quote seems pretty obvious, I think it was extremely cleverly written. A lot of books I've read have tried to say similar things, but just say it in one of the following ways:
1. Murder was a shock to the residents of the small town.
2. His murder was unexpected, seeing as it almost never happens here.
If a person compares Bauer's quote to the other two examples, you can tell that all of them got the message across, but Bauer used creativity to keep the reader interested.


P.S. I commented on Erik's blog.