I feel somehow I'm being overly ambitious....
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
WTF!!!!!
@IMDb: It's official! Peter Jackson confirmed #TheHobbit' will be split into 3 films w/ final to be released in summer 2014. imdb.to/MfKmgB -- shared via UberSocial http://ubersocial.com
I love Marilyn
@randomhouse: Marilyn Monroe's Unpublished Poems: The Complex Private Person Behind the Public Persona bit.ly/MWzXTd @brainpicker -- shared via UberSocial http://ubersocial.com
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
I'm all for attracting literary guys
@strandbookstore: Books that make guys swoon: http://bit.ly/O0Yown (via @flavorpill) Ever chatted up a stranger about a book? Tell us about it. #litconnection -- shared via UberSocial http://ubersocial.com
Thursday, July 19, 2012
A Distillations Explainer: Tears
This is a really cute and rather informative video featuring my favorite heroine, Elizabeth Bennett.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
So true
@randomhouse: "A room without books is like a life without meaning." ― Thomas Jefferson http://bit.ly/Opl2F6 #amreading #quotes -- shared via UberSocial http://ubersocial.com
A Discovery of Witches: a book review
I recently finished A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, and before I run away with my feelings on the novel, let me provide a small summary. Most of this I have pulled from the back of the book and then embellished.
Hidden by a spell in the Bodleian Library lies an ancient alchemical manuscript. Diana Bishop, the reluctant member of an ancient clan of witches finds the manuscript while researching a paper. Unknowingly releasing the book from a spell before sending it back, Diana causes all kinds of underworld creatures to surface searching for the book which might explain the origins of us all.
One vampire in particular is interested in the manuscript, Mathew Clairmont. As he and Diana
This is what I have to day for the novel. The only thing that motivates me to read the sequel is the fact that Diana and Mathew the vampire are traveling back to Elizabethan England and that I'm curious about Ashmole 782. The love story between Mathew and Diana is nothing to me anymore.
I have to say that I was enjoying all aspects of the novel up to p. 328, when Mathew spontaneously calls Diana to confess his love for her. For a few pages after I was sure it was some sort of trap but no! I'm not sure what happened here, whether Harkness wanted to give Diana some alone time with Mathews family or if she needed to introduce witch water or what but if I was her editor I would have taken a red pin to that entire section!
Hidden by a spell in the Bodleian Library lies an ancient alchemical manuscript. Diana Bishop, the reluctant member of an ancient clan of witches finds the manuscript while researching a paper. Unknowingly releasing the book from a spell before sending it back, Diana causes all kinds of underworld creatures to surface searching for the book which might explain the origins of us all.
One vampire in particular is interested in the manuscript, Mathew Clairmont. As he and Diana
This is what I have to day for the novel. The only thing that motivates me to read the sequel is the fact that Diana and Mathew the vampire are traveling back to Elizabethan England and that I'm curious about Ashmole 782. The love story between Mathew and Diana is nothing to me anymore.
I have to say that I was enjoying all aspects of the novel up to p. 328, when Mathew spontaneously calls Diana to confess his love for her. For a few pages after I was sure it was some sort of trap but no! I'm not sure what happened here, whether Harkness wanted to give Diana some alone time with Mathews family or if she needed to introduce witch water or what but if I was her editor I would have taken a red pin to that entire section!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
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