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Ella Minnow Pea

a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable /
Oct 20, 2016KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I actually came across this book on tumblr on a post where people were talking about what would happen if certain letters just stopped existing. I was surprised to find that this concept had already been done and I had to check it out. It's a neat concept. A small island bans letters as they fall off a statue commemorating the man who thought up a sentence that uses every letter in the english language at least once - the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The punishment for using any banned letters go from warning, to public flogging or time in the stocks, or banishment. It's interesting to see how inventive people get with avoiding words with offending letters in them, and there is a bit of personal intrigue as people are punished and outside forces try to intervene but it was a little rough to read. Easy, it's all letters,but just not super engaging beyond the writing experiment