- Readers Talk to Writers Jacqueline Woodson: A Lesson Idea or Two by Martha Merson I confessed to the Hooked on Whole Books Sharing Group in September that Jacqueline Woodson's book, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, made me cry more than once. I've been known to cry at the end of a book, but this short novel had my tears flowing at various points. As Elizabeth Whitsey wrote in her review of the ...www.alri.org/pubs/woodsonlessons.html