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Title: What is the title of the book?
Author: Who wrote it?
Type: Is it a detective story, spy thriller, horror story, historical novel, science fiction, romance, etc.?
Subject: What is it about, e.g. family life, an unusual person, a mystery or an adventure?
Characters: Who are they? What are they like?
Setting: Where does the story take place?
Time: Is it written in the present time, or is it historical, or set in the future?
Events: What happens? (Don’t tell the whole story, just enough to interest your readers)
Ideas Is the writer saying something important about people? Is there a “message” in the story?
Comments: What was it like to read? Easy / difficult? Short / long?
How would you describe the story? Realistic? Amusing? Exciting? Thrilling? Fast-moving? Sad?
Did you like it?
What did you like specially about it?
How did you feel? Happy? Sad?
_____________________________________________________ From: Tricia Hedge, Writing, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 141.
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