So…I’ve been thinking a lot about how to write this so that it comes out the way I mean it and not weird… I’ve just finished reading Caletti’s THE FORTUNES OF INDIGO SKYE. Boy did I love this book. I’ve liked other Caletti books (hey, she even has a character named Joelle in HONEY, BABY, SWEETHEART), but this one was different for me. I feel like I finally got why people are so excited about her writing. Don’t get me wrong, I always knew it was good, but I’m not sure I really got how good before.
Now if there are any Jane Austen scholars out there reading my blog, they’re probably going to send me emails saying things like, “Huh?” and “You don’t get Austen at all!” but it seems to me that, in a very simplified way, Jane Austen writes about love and money and how relationships are affected by both. And so does Caletti. And she does it (TO ME) in a very Austen-like way… What I mean by that is there is a ton of…oh, heck…last night as I was drifting off to sleep I had this worked out perfectly… there is… she is… Well, they both like words and there are a lot of them in their writing. I don’t mean it’s a long book, and I don’t mean she’s wordy (definitely not wordy), what I mean is each sentence is rich and full and…
Oh, I know… My husband is from the South and when he says things, he is often colourful in the way he says it…Anything from “Time to go to the house” instead of “I’ll play one more song” at the end of a gig, to “I reckon I’ll have to come out and fetch ya in the Volvo” instead of “I can drive my car over and pick you up”. He explained it to me this way. “Out west, y’all got words. Down South, we’ve got language.”
Well, Deb Caletti might be from “out west” (lives in Washington), but she’s definitely got language. So anyway…I probably didn’t really say anything here (just words…no language), but somehow this was important to me. By the way, I’m guessing that THE FORTUNES OF INDIGO SKYE is also, or will be, an award winner for Deb Caletti. I highly recommend it.
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