interesting

What is it about a book report? It automatically brings out this language: “It was interesting, but I didn’t like …” the main characters, the plot, the word choice, the form, the shape, the topic, the length, the poetics. I empathize with school children.

Trying to avoid writing a book report, but finding it difficult. Maybe I need to get out more. My objective is not to write reviews, but to develop a “poetics.” Whatever that means.

By the way, the wikipedia entry on poetics is not very interesting.