![]() ![]() Eleanor is hanging out in heaven with Henry’s mother, Queen Matilda, and various other incorporeal souls, killing time until Henry arrives. The idea is that Eleanor’s erstwhile husband, King Henry II of England, is being released from Purgatory and brought to heaven to be judged. The novel tells the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s life as narrated by Eleanor herself (making this the second novel I read last summer that is narrated by a dead queen) from heaven. ![]() I guess it is worth reading, but I was disappointed anyway, for complicated reasons. ![]() In fact, I found this book listed on the curriculum page on the website for the K-8 school that I went to, and since I got a great education there, I thought the book was probably worth reading. Frankweiler quite a lot when I was in the fourth grade or so, and this book came highly recommended for seventh and eighth graders, many of whom I was tutoring at the time. I remember liking Konigsburg’s much-earlier novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. I read A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (otherwise known on my to-do list as A Proud Taste for S&M) last summer when I was trying to give myself an introductory course in what’s been published in the world of Middle-Grades and Young Adult fiction since I left those sorts of books behind in the eighth grade or so. ![]()
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