Alanna Thornton’s Reviews > The Historian > Status Update

“I have sometimes used Aunt Éva to fill the shoes of characters in books, or figures in history; for example, she stepped in automatically when I encountered Madame Merle, the personable schemer in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady.”

Yikes that’s not a compliment lol

Does the shoulder of a Turkish hillside really look so different from the slope of a Magyar meadow? Of course not, and yet the difference is as impossible to erase from the eye as the history that informs it is from the mind.

“But" — he sighed — "the line between literature and history is often a wobbling one, and I am not an historian.”

YIKES

“He might have said instead that he didn't like the painting to look at him, I thought.” EW

“Perhaps it was just the contagion of my father's letters, but everything looked suspicious to me now. It was as if we were being followed by eyes I could not see.”

Ominous, lots of creepy coincidences, and feeling quite slow at the moment

"Get out of here, Romanian daughter of wolves. You and your friend bring the curse of the vampire to our city."

Part two!!