![]() ![]() ![]() How does the Marquise view romantic love? Does she see it as a genuine, selfless emotion.a weakness, a competition. Why are they each selected as the objects of Valmont's conquests?ģ. ![]() Describe Cecile Volange and Presidente de Tourvel. How would you describe the characters of the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil (in fact, how does she define herself)? What inspires their games of sexual predation?Ģ. Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)Īlso consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Dangerous Liaisons:ġ.Generic Discussion Questions-Fiction and Nonfiction.How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips).Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources they can help with discussions for any book: ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, Alan Scott: The Green Lantern will feature far more than high-flying heroics, also focusing on Alan’s greatest love and heartbreak–which went a long way into shaping him into the hero he was destined to become.ĭC’s New Golden Age initiative has sowed many mysteries, and Alan Scott: The Green Lantern will provide answers–as well as raising many more questions. He has not held his own title since 1949, which makes this new book an even bigger deal. As one of DC’s most important heroes, and this new miniseries restores Alan to his rightful place in the publisher’s universe. ![]() ![]() Sad, because people who say this are going to miss so much. Even well-regarded booksellers have been known to refer to Mantel fans as “Tudor nuts”. This is perhaps the most frequent comment I’ve heard from people who haven’t read the first two books of the trilogy. ![]() Can she add a third prize to the net, ten years after her last? If anyone can, it will be Mantel. I simply feel indebted to her for her skills, her labours, and the diamond-cut world she reveals. ![]() Mantel is an extraordinarily intelligent writer at the top of her game, with superb command of language and material. So good, it feels a little arrogant to even consider reviewing it. She is the only person ever to win the prize for 2 novels in a trilogy.įor me, Wolf Hall was a brilliant literary read, but Bring up the Bodies was so good it astonished me. Mantel won the 2009 Booker Prize for Wolf Hall and took out the 2012 Booker Prize after publication of the second book in the trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies. And her book Beyond Black certainly requires patient reading through its dense prose style but this is repaid a thousandfold by the wickedly dark humour and magnificent imagination driving one of the weirdest books ever written.īut Wolf Hall? And Bring Up The Bodies? These books are simply in another league. In fact, halfway through her enormous 1992 novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, I was wondering if I’d live long enough to get to the end of it. ![]() ![]() “I read another book by Hilary Mantel and didn’t like it.” ![]() ![]() When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide: Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence? What is he willing to sacrifice to bring Babel down?īabel - a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal response to Jonathan Strange & Mr. As his studies progress Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to sabotaging the silver-working that supports imperial expansion. But knowledge serves power, and for Robin, a Chinese boy raised in Britain, serving Babel inevitably means betraying his motherland. Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, is a fairytale for Robin a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. ![]() ![]() Silver-working has made the British Empire unparalleled in power, and Babel’s research in foreign languages serves the Empire’s quest to colonize everything it encounters. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation - also known as Babel.īabel is the world’s center of translation and, more importantly, of silver-working: the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation through enchanted silver bars, to magical effect. ![]() Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.ġ828. ![]() ![]() She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. ![]() ![]() In the past year, she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. ![]() Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Her novels have made the bestseller lists –even in London– and have been published in 14 countries and 13 different languages. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery. In addition, she's written a number of nonfiction articles over the years, with her latest Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. ![]() Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. ![]() ![]() She had always been his weakness and also that drove everything he did. Throughout it all, his love for Bailey never wavered and continued to burn with a wild passion. Meanwhile, Kash was on a mission to find and kill his grandfather, a man of pure evil. The Revenge, the third book in the Insiders trilogy, begins as Bailey struggles to witness her mother’s murder and discover her father’s true identity. Victory or defeat, it’s all at stake for Bailey and Kash. ![]() ![]() Together they can do anything, but undeniable dangers and seemingly insurmountable challenges threaten the love and passion that binds them.īailey is recovering from the greatest loss she has ever suffered.Enemies are getting closer.Even greater mysteries and twists are revealed. Now they are made available to the public. The Revenge is the tight, offbeat, sexy and explosive conclusion to The Insiders trilogy from The New York Times and USA Today bestseller Tijan.īailey and Kash were used to be living in the shadows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of his best friend, Eliza, and her wild little brother, Frank, Carlos must uncover a mystery involving an eccentric local millionaire, anonymous death threats, and a buried treasure. But when Carloss mom gets sick with a flu on the morning of an investigation that could save her failing detective agency, Carlos takes on the case. You pick the path-you crack the case! Carlos Serrano has never solved a mystery in his life. In this wildly entertaining and interactive adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. T DECIDES A QU SOSPECHOSOS INTERROGAR, QU PREGUNTAS HACER Y QU PISTAS SEGUIR! TE ATREVES A CONVERTIRTE EN DETECTIVE? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the first book in Lauren Magaziners hilarious and high-stakes four-book middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends put together the clues to save his moms detective agency. Book Synopsis Alguien quiere conseguir el tesoro escondido de una excntrica millonaria, pero la bsqueda del culpable se complica con todo tipo de acertijos, enigmas, oscuros secretos y un montn de decisiones imposibles. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are only a few brief dramatic portrayals of events during those years - for example, Godfrey and Nancy's discussion about adopting Eppie. The intervening years are filled in mostly by the narrator or by conversations between characters. Sixteen years are then jumped over, and the results of the early events are seen. The events between then and New Year's take up the first portion of the book, although the narrator briefly mentions some events that follow as Silas begins to raise Eppie. The time then skips quickly back to its original point, settling on a November afternoon. This period is followed by a flashback to the time fifteen years earlier when he was driven from Lantern Yard. The first of these, the time on which the book opens, shows Silas living his lonely existence at Raveloe. ![]() However, concentration within this span limits the time actually portrayed to three relatively short periods. The book covers a long span of time - over thirty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Angelic demands or not, this isn't something she can walk away from.Īnd the angel is getting impatient for results. And Inspector McIntyre won't stop calling: the bodies of Normal women who disappeared decades before are turning up, apparently subjected to Weyrd magics. The angel has tasked V with finding two lost treasures, which would be hard enough even without a vengeful Dusana Nadasy on her heels. and Joyce comes with her own murderous problems. Instead of indulging in domestic bliss, she's got to play BFFs with the angel's little spy, Joyce the kitsune assassin. The angel is a jealous - and violent - employer, so she's quit working for the Weyrd Council and sent her family away, for their own safety. And dealing with a career change not entirely of her own choosing is doing nothing to improve V's already fractious temper. ![]() Verity Fassbinder thought no boss could be worse than her perfectionist ex-boyfriend - until she grudgingly agreed to work for a psychotic fallen angel. ![]() Walking between the worlds has always been dangerous - but this time V's facing the loss of all she holds dear. ![]() ![]() ![]() The latest Dear Diaries causing "Dear me!" reactions are Sir Cecil Beaton's. that defined the New York scene in the seventies even outraged one of the in-crowd: Bianca Jagger successfully sued the publishers for libel over some of the more vicious comments Warhol made about her and had them removed from future editions. His record of life in theĮntourage terrible of Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Halston et al. Warhol Diaries caused a huge stir when they were released in 1989, two years after the pop artist's death, because of their brutal observations of both friend and foe. The Andy Warhol Diaries, the 11-year daily log that dropped an estimated 2,338 names. Those more interested in celebrity gossip can turn to Certainly those of us in need of some scandalous travel reading could do worse than flip through a volume of the journals of former theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, filled with anguished revelations about his own petty professional insecurities and his predilection for spanking women. One should always have something sensational to read in the train," drawls Gwendolen Fairfax in Oscar Wilde's ![]() |