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Ready Player Two

Coming soon (when available)! What to Know About Ready Player Two Ready Player Two will be released on November 24, 2020. Ready Player Two is the sequel to Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel, Ready Player One, which was adapted into a big blockbuster film by Steven Spielberg in 2018. Wil Wheaton narrates the audiobook for Ready …

Caste: Key Ideas & Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

Prologue Part 1: Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising All Around Part 2: The Arbitrary Construction of Human Divisions Part 3: The Eight Pillars of Caste Part 4: The Tentacles of Caste Part 5: The Consequences of Caste Part 6: Backlash Part 7: Awakening Epilogue: A World Without Caste Prologue The Man in the …

Whereabouts

Coming soon (when available)! What to know about Whereabouts Whereabouts is set to be released on May 4th, 2021 by Knopf. It seems like a bit of an experimental project for Lahiri. She originally wrote this book in Italian, and then translated it herself into English. From an article about the book: “Feeling foreign in …

A Deadly Education

A Deadly Education (Scholomance #1), by Naomi Novik, is the first book from Novik’s planned Scholomance Trilogy. In Novik’s new series, the wizarding world is a dangerous one, full of monsters and creatures that feed on wizards and the power they possess. Meanwhile, El is a junior at the school who has unusually powerful natural …

A Deadly Education: Quick Recap & Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

Chapter 1: Soul-Eater Scholomance is a school of magic where Galadriel (“El”) is a student in her junior year. She needs to clean her room, but needs to gather power for a spell to do so. There are two types of power used to fuel spells: mana and malia. Malia draws from the life-force from …