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![]() ![]() ![]() Playlists containing +READ#! The Girl Who.Users who reposted +READ#! The Girl Who.Now that the killer - and the only one who knows the truth - is being released from prison, time is running out for Ellie to discover how far Leah will go to silence her anger. Sensing Leah isn't quite the sweet girl she pretends to be, Ellie discovers that Leah has a plan, one she has been putting together ever since that fateful day. And now, ten years later, all she can think of is revenge.When Leah's dad meets a new partner, stepsister Ellie moves in. ![]() Her case hit the headlines and her bravery made her a national sweetheart: strong, courageous and forgiving.But Leah is hiding a secret about their deaths. She was seven years old when she saw her mother and sister killed by a troubled gang member. But nobody really knows, no one sees the real Leah.Leah is the perfect survivor. has something to hidePeople can't bring themselves to say what happened to her. ![]() ![]() As those characters warn, “It’s very complicated.” Would it serve you to have recently read (or re-read) the other books mentioned above in the immediate run-up to reading this book? Quite possibly. The action of The Secret Commonwealth leaps forward in time, to almost ten years after the events of His Dark Materials. ![]() Do you have to have read His Dark Materials? Very much so. Before we get into it: do you have to have read La Bella Sauvage to read this? Indefatigably yes. You’ll remember, we had the first part, La Belle Sauvage, about 18 months ago, a story that was itself set a decade or so prior to the events captured in Pullman’s earlier trilogy, His Dark Materials. ![]() ![]() “It’s very complicated,” says one character to another at least twice over the course of The Secret Commonwealth, the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newton also carefully presents the problems with the accuracy and ethics of these tools. She begins with a few burning questions: "Had my mom's father really married thirteen times? Had his father really killed a man with a hay hook?” Then she used, 23andMe, and many other resources to track down the truth about her family history, which is rife with scoundrels, slave owners, and a 17th-century accused witch. These ruptures seeded a project that grew like a fairy-tale beanstalk, which the author climbs with unflagging energy. ![]() Perhaps her hunger is especially gnawing due to her long-term estrangement from her proudly racist father-and from her holy roller mother for a time, as well. "Ancestor hunger circles the globe” and “spans millennia,” writes blogger, critic, and essayist Newton in her first book. ![]() The current wave of interest in genealogy, heredity, family history, and responsibility for past injustices crescendos in a comprehensive work combining personal narrative and reporting. ![]() |