Novel Response #1

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
Do you like the author's writing? What would you do to make it better?

The author of The Piano Teacher is not very good. Her writing seems forced; like she doesn't have a passion for what she's writing. Her writing is bland and boring for this reason. Sometimes, she cuts off her thoughts and ideas. Some authors can pull that off by leaving the reader hanging with an ending that makes them think about what happens next. Janice Lee, however, doesn't do this. She leaves the reader thinking "why would she end it there?" Her endings are not ones that make the reader think on a higher level, but instead wonder how she thought that it worked.

Her paragraphs and chapters don't flow from one to the other. It's as if she was thinking of too many things at one time and it showed up in her writing. She tried, almost too hard, to add details about everything and everyone, but ended up with nothing making sense.

If I was the author of this book, I would think more deeply about one topic and try to develop it. I would make everything flow better from one idea to the next. I would also come up with endings that would leave my readers amazed and wondering what else is to come.