The historian kostova review5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The book has a creepy and well-told beginning but becomes so bogged down by the machismo, over-educated, mansplainer-Abraham Van Helsing, who, by the way, shares the author’s given name (Freud much?). research and picked up a copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Years later, I was in Scotland for my Ph. ![]() After that, I joined the masses to theaters and even waited in line to see the suspenseful romance of Bella acted out on the big screen. Then in a Pop-Culture Seminary class, I was briefly exposed to the Twilight movies and subsequently indulged in the guilty pleasure of Stephanie Meyers’ Twilight series. Still, I stumbled entirely by accident onto The Historian. I never considered myself a fan of vampire literature. After some speedy binge reading of late-twentieth Century sci-fi, I cracked open Kostova’s speculative fiction about vampires. ![]() Then, this past summer, I picked up a used copy of the same book at a charming bookstore in South Eugene. Several years ago I read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova as a commuter novel. ![]()
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