#Louise Kennedy

[derangedrhythms]

When he began to speak again she could feel his breath below her ear, and her shoulder began to curl up involuntarily, as if it was trying to meet his mouth.

Louise Kennedy, from 'Trespasses'

[samasmith23]

When I look at these pages from J.M. DeMatteis’ & John Romita Jr.’s criminally underrated Spider-Man: The Lost Years miniseries, I’m reminded of a quote that former Spider-Man: Clone Saga editor Glenn Greenberg made in he 36-part “Life of Reilly” online essay. Specifically in relation to both the character-writing and panel composition of these pages:

“Duality comes up a lot in Marc DeMatteis's writing, as it's a favorite subject of his. He has a real penchant for exploring the darkness and light in the souls of his characters, and stripping away the layers surrounding them to reveal their deepest selves. It's particularly enlightening when he does it long-established characters such as Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman, about whom you might think everything has already been said.”

From Spider-Man: The Lost Years #2-3 by J.M. DeMatteis & John Romita Jr.

[obsessioncollector]

The story never changed, always the same words in the same order, the same conspiratorial delivery. So faithful to the first time she'd heard it she didn't believe it anymore.

Louise Kennedy, "Sparing the Heather," The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac

[brian-in-finance]

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Trespasses

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.

Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.

As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.

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Remember when we learned we may hear an accent much like Ma’s on 24 May when Caitríona reads from Trespasses? ☘️

[ihavenoideamanokay]

someone: fuck the police

kaine parker:

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[lesbiansybelle]

Kaine pulling this butch woman........interesting........

[btelling]

i try to read things not on Ao3

So I'm trying to read more original fiction as I think I've hit the end of Ao3 and that can't be good. I read Trespasses for a local book club. It was good! The scenes during Cushla and Michael's Dublin trip were just dreamy, so languid yet propulsive. She didn't let him drive her to the train station, ugh. Kill me. Lovely.

Overall their relationship was just beautifully done. For a multitude of reasons (almost like this is the plot of the book) they shouldn't work together and yet I loved how it always felt like yes, they oddly understood each other. In that indescribable way that we're sometimes just drawn to people. But it never felt trite. Ridiculously hard to pull off in something as intrinsically trite as fiction. Loved that.

It was very funny as inevitably the book club conversation turned to discussing the sex between Cushla and Michael and how most everyone else there was disappointed by it. But that's literary fiction sex for you. His scalliony armpit. Ugh. Incredible. What a detail. What a gag reflex that induced. But when you're 20 and in love? Onion it up. And not a lot of sympathy in the group for a 24 year old waiting up by the phone for someone interesting, older, seemingly caring about her when no one else in her life was. And hating herself for that! I thought y'all were screaming these Taylor Swift lyrics because you related?

Loved Gerry. Justice for Jane. This has been another post.

[leiafett]

My book club is reading Trespasses by Louise Kennedy and my brain is having such a hard time because they’re no quotation marks for dialogue, it’s not working well

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Trespasses | Author: Louise Kennedy | Publisher: Riverhead Books (2022)

[derangedrhythms]

If you keep reading all will not be lost.

Louise Kennedy, from 'Trespasses'

[samasmith23]

So here's some very interesting trivia! For a lengthy period during The Clone Saga, Peter Parker was unintentionally framed and arrested for the murder of Salt Lake City police detective Louise Kennedy. Said-murder was revealed during The Lost Years miniseries to have actually been committed by Peter's clone Kaine, who initially fell in love with Louise but later felt betrayed when he learned that she was actually a corrupt cop on the payroll of the local mafia. Having viewed Louise as his sole anchor to humanity, Kaine went insane with anger as he not only snapped Louise's neck in cold blood, but also made her the first person to ever be branded with his signature "Mark of Kaine" scar.

Well in addition to Ben Reilly also being present at the scene of the crime due to Kaine having ambushed him before he murdered Louise, one of the main reasons why Louise’s partner Detective Jacob Raven was so easily able to have Peter arrested and implicated for Kaine’s crimes was because its revealed during The Trial of Peter Parker storyline that events of The Lost Years actually took place chronologically at the exact same time Peter was missing and buried alive during the classic Kraven's Last Hunt storyline, and MJ couldn’t reveal where Peter actually was during the time of Kennedy’s murder without revealing that her husband was Spider-Man.

This was an ingenious referencing of past continuity, especially since both The Lost Years and Kraven's Last Hunt were both written by the same author, J.M. DeMatteis!

[lilianeruyters]

The Women’s Prize: my favourite

Sometimes it is easy to determine which novel you want to win the Women’s Prize. It is the one that stood out, that spoke to me straight away. This year I do not have such a clear preference. There are two novels I would not like to win, for various reasons. As far as I am concerned they lack the quality needed to win the prestigious prize. The other fours all have their own plusses. I…

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