November 2018 – Arely Anaya

Reflecting On Reads: What Made a Story a Favorite

Years after reading Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (as “Anonymous”), Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, I reflect on why these books were my favorites.

George Saunders gets excited about dramatization, “When you take a human situation and make it come to a boil.”