![]() ![]() Hence its status as a “secret Culture novel” is very much an open secret. Banks confirmed it, most reviewers don’t seem to regard it as a spoiler to mention its Culture links, and it’s always included in any list of Culture novels. The missing last bead had not, of course, simply fallen off in the confusion as he supposed it had been offensively deployed, presumably detonating inside the torturer’s head.Īlthough the book itself, including its cover and blurb, and the publisher’s descriptions, remains tacit about the wider context implied in Inversions, this fact is explicitly stated elsewhere. The “beads” mentioned by the servant are tiny bombs, disguised as decorative jewels. This is a clear reference to one of the Culture’s most distinctive pieces of technology, the “knife missile”: an autonomous, AI-controlled, self-propelled weapon in the shape of a dagger, carried by Culture agents in the field for protection. Afterwards, bemused, the servant notices that “ old battered dagger had lost the last of its little white beads round the top rim of its pommel”. In a few seconds, while his eyes are closed in terror, she mysteriously escapes from her bondage, while the torturer’s head is obliterated and his assistants are also violently killed. ![]() Narrated by her clueless servant, it recounts how she is tied up and about to be raped and tortured. The most dramatic evidence of Culture presence occurs in the climax to the female agent’s story. ![]()
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The news about the series is that Scholastic is relaunching it. ![]() Today, I reproduced that review for those of you who are having trouble locating it in the Way Back Machine (Internet Archive). Several years ago, I co-wrote an extended review of the book. That book is My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, A Sioux Girl. And many are disillusioned when we spend time studying Ann Rinaldi's book in the series. Many of the students in my classes at the University of Illinois remember them fondly. Are you a fan of the Dear America series of historical fiction diaries published by Scholastic? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are so simple and comforting and bring back wonderful memories of my elementary school library visits. ![]() Nancy Drew will forever be some of my favorite reads. She makes sure that the reader truly enjoys the story and wants to continue listening. 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The genre-bending stories collected in Her Body and Other Parties weave fables, urban legends, gothic literature, and popular culture to create moving narratives about female selfhood. These are only a few of the wonders contained in the pages of Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado’s electrifying debut. A phantasmagoric reimagining of one of television’s most popular shows. An inventory of lovers, written as the world falls apart. ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria MachadoĪ mysterious green ribbon around a woman’s neck. ![]() ![]() The point of view shifts to Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of World War I who is suffering from shell shock. ![]() He follows a young woman, idealizing her from afar. Peter leaves when Clarissa’s daughter Elizabeth enters, and he walks to Regent’s Park, thinking about Clarissa’s refusal of his marriage offer. Peter and Clarissa have always been very close but also very critical of each other, and their brief meeting is laden with shared memories. Peter was once passionately in love with Clarissa, but she rejected his offer of marriage. She passes a car bearing an unknown but important personage, and an airplane sky writing an advertisement.Ĭlarissa returns home and is visited by Peter Walsh, an old friend from Bourton who has been in India for years. She enjoys the small sensations of daily life and often muses on her late teenage years at Bourton, her family’s country home. Clarissa is throwing a party that night, and in the morning she walks about London on her way to get flowers. ![]() ![]() Clarissa Dalloway is an upper-class housewife married to Richard, a politician in the Conservative Party. Dalloway takes place in London during one day and night in mid-June, 1923. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book Second, Chapter 6Īfter a run-in with a group of beggars, Gringoire is take before the "King". Book Second, Chapter 5Īfter regaining consciousness, Gringoire continues to seek lodging for the night. Quasimodo makes a sudden and unexpected appearance. Gringoire decides he will follow La Esmeralda. Quasimodo's participation in the festivities comes to an end. A mysterious stranger accuses Esmeralda of sorcery. Gringoire watches Esmeralda, as she performs for the crowd. The narrator provides a bleak, but thorough picture of Place de Gréve. Gringoire, broke and depressed, walks the streets of Paris, eventually ending up at the Place de Gréve. Gringoire's attempt to perform is play is interrupted by the appearance of La Esmeralda. Quasimodo is elected Pope of Fools and is subsequently paraded through the street on a mock throne. Book First, Chapter 4Ĭoppenole convinces the Parisians to run the election as they do in Flanders. ![]() The Cardinal's appearance signals the end of Gringoire's play and the crowd turns its attention upcoming election of the Pope of Fools. The Cardinal finally makes his appearance. The people are not impressed by Gringoire's new work. At the Palace of Justice, Pierre Gringoire prepares to present his play to the people. The novel begins in Paris during the Festival of Fools. ![]() The title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, around which the story is centered. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1831. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s never believed the villagers’ stories of a curse on her family, but as her younger sisters grow more panicked, she suggests a game: they’ll find the door of the gods that can take them anywhere they want to go in a moment. The deaths of her mother and four of her older sisters have kept them in mourning year after year, but after the strange circumstances of her sister Eulalie’s cliffside fall, she starts to wonder if the deaths weren’t accidental. Trigger warnings: death, body horror, gore, blood, abuse (verbal/emotional), mental illness, severe illness.Ībout: Annaleigh lives by the sea at beautiful Highmoor manor with her father, stepmother, and sisters. ![]() Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams.Ĭome not as you are but as you wish to be seen.”Ĭontext: I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Random House/Delacorte Press. “Flushed with starlight and moonlight drowned, ![]() |