Talk:Sarah Dessen

this book is really hard to write a 15 page paper on because it doesnt have cliff's notes or sparknotes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.188.192.107 (talk) 22:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

wow Haha at above comment. Anyway, this page needs more info about the awards Dessen won for her work. There are a lot of them.  Chantessy  16:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Character Lists
Im not 100 percent sure about character analysis and if there is a fine line between my interpretation and the basic structures of the characters, but the characters lists need to be a little better than one sentence basic not quite correctly done. Its a good star but this book deserves more than the outline. is there a possibility for it or is it pushing bias guidelines? Brialexengli (talk) 02:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Needs more
There are a few things that could use some work on this page like the citations that are not available anymore and as the previous person said the one line in the character list. Crwhiting94 (talk) 20:35, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Themes & writing style and Bibliography sections
The Themes & writing style section seems to be mostly unqualified praise for the author, and I'm not entirely sure how it's meant to give us more information about her. "Gragert asked Dessen about the style she uses in some of her books, otherwise known as "effortless perfection"" in particular stands out; it might be a description of the author's characters' attempts at perfectionism, but it reads very much as if the article is calling Dessen's books effortlessly perfect, which is not particularly informative or professional.

Most of this section is a summary of a single article titled "I interviewed author Sarah Dessen, the woman who made me want to read and write". For obvious reasons, I am skeptical of this article as a source for anything but bare facts. I'd prefer to pare this section down to the first paragraph (if anyone can find a citation for it), a single sentence summarizing the themes of perfectionism, and a "Dessen exercises and reads in her free time as anxiety coping mechanisms" or something similar.

The Bibliography section, meanwhile, looks as if it was written by a fan club or the author's publisher. Particularly since every single one of these books seems to have their own article, there seems to be to be no need for these chatty advertising blurbs. Unless anyone has any objections, I'll remove the summaries and leave it as names and dates, the standard formatting for bibliographies here.206.71.224.226 (talk) 20:49, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Steady now. We all know what happens to people who cross Sarah.2A02:C7F:5E4B:1F00:4D8D:5447:A6DC:6A21 (talk) 14:53, 18 November 2019 (UTC)