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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
A vampire book for grown-ups! I wonder if this one will be fun . . .
Purty dull for the first 200 pages. Waaaay too many churches atop lonely mountains. The story does pick up some once the daughter begins living her own life. Still, almost worth reading.
Okay, I know this is a book about graduate school historians, but do we need 8 pages of primary source material circa page 500 to advance the narrative? Ugh. I am having to force myself not to skim, and the whole experience makes me feel like I should be taking notes for a paper. Novel reading should not mimic studying for one's comprehensive exams.
The end is anticlimactic, like a piece of popped balloon.
The most fun part is how much action the card catalog gets in this novel.
Purty dull for the first 200 pages. Waaaay too many churches atop lonely mountains. The story does pick up some once the daughter begins living her own life. Still, almost worth reading.
Okay, I know this is a book about graduate school historians, but do we need 8 pages of primary source material circa page 500 to advance the narrative? Ugh. I am having to force myself not to skim, and the whole experience makes me feel like I should be taking notes for a paper. Novel reading should not mimic studying for one's comprehensive exams.
The end is anticlimactic, like a piece of popped balloon.
The most fun part is how much action the card catalog gets in this novel.