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The Still Life
Louise Penny, 2008
GENRE
Detective novel
Cozy mystery
GENDER
Inspector Armand Gamache, Detective
How come
I've heard nothing but good things about Louise Penny. She was mentioned by a trusted professor in the earliest stages of this project and I never forgot her name. As I was making a list of books for the project I was sure to add her first in the Inspector Gamache series to my list.
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Legend
legend:
pleasure
Marked by those feelings of satisfaction, gratification, fantasy, and entertainment.
convention
Convention is the way things are usually done. They are recurring, referential themes and motifs.
gender
Gender encompasses the lived, material realities of the way one presents and articulates their bodies in a world that privileges certain presentations.
genre
Genre is a critical and analytical term that describes a text's relation to a larger body of work with similar themes, questions, and styles.
Magic symbol
You will see this symbol next to annotations in which I discuss the other genre.
Heart—Romance in the detective novel
Star—Detective novel in the romance
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