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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.

The page

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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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