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Alanna Thornton is on page 300 of 676

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.

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Alanna Thornton is on page 313 of 676

“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

— 6 hours, 25 min ago

Alanna Thornton is on page 288 of 676

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

— Nov 03, 2025 07:20AM

Alanna Thornton is on page 275 of 676

"Oh, I know", he said grimly. "I know the look of that face. It is the expression of the undead. There is no other face like that. I have seen it before."

— Nov 03, 2025 07:07AM

Alanna Thornton is on page 266 of 676

— Nov 02, 2025 08:49PM

Alanna Thornton is on page 254 of 676

YIKES

— Nov 02, 2025 08:23PM

Alanna Thornton is on page 249 of 676

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

— Nov 02, 2025 08:18PM

Alanna Thornton is on page 232 of 676

“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.”

— Nov 02, 2025 08:02PM

Alanna Thornton is on page 226 of 676

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

— Nov 02, 2025 07:48PM

Alanna Thornton is on page 199 of 676

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

— Oct 31, 2025 07:22PM

Alanna Thornton is on page 183 of 676

Part two!!

— Oct 31, 2025 06:40AM