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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova β book review
What could have been the perfect historical mystery for bibliophiles ended up being an unnecessarily long-winded and frequently dull novel. βLooking up from my work, I suddenly realized that someone had left a book whose spine I had never seen before among my own textbooks, which sat on a shelf above my desk. The spine…
15th century, 1950s, 1970s, 20th century, 3 STARS, Adult, adventure, AMERICAN AUTHOR, big books, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, books about books, bram stoker, bulgaria, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), dracula, drama, Elizabeth Kostova, epistolary, female authors, FOLKLORE, FRANCE, GOTHIC, historians, HISTORICAL FICTION, history, istanbul, librarians, libraries/bookshops, LITERARY FICTION, modern gothic, MYSTERY, Netherlands, philosophical, psychological, published in 2005, READ IN 2019, Religion, Romania, slow pacing, story within a story, SUPERNATURAL, SUSPENSE, the historian, travel, Turkey, unnamed narrator, VAMPIRES -
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy β book review
For readers in want of an incisive and creative account of life in East Germany, I strongly recommend picking up something by Christa Wolf. I think that from now on I might stick to Deborah Levy‘s non-fiction. While I’m glad to see that many of my friends and other readers were able to enjoy this…
1980s, 1st pov, 3 STARS, bad love, Berlin, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, booker longlist 2019, British author, cheating, cold war, Deborah Levy, east and west germany, england, existentialism, female authors, feverish, Germany, historians, Hyped new releases, illness, introspective, Jewish, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, mental health, paranoia, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, SEXUALITY, stylised prose, surreal, The Man Who Saw Everything, why the hype
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