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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova -*book club selection may contain spoilers*
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last updated May 16, 2010 01:23PM
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Oct 19, 2010
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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it was amazing
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Jackson is the author of "The Lottery" a short story assigned me when I was in high school and still one of the most chilling stories I've ever read, so I expected this to be good and stylish and I wasn't disappointed. The only thing dating the story (it was published in 1959) was the use of the word "gay" to mean light-hearted. The story has a lot of leavening humor, wit, banter and reads very quickly--it took me a few hours.
The house itself is, of course, itself a vivid character--an enormous ...more
The house itself is, of course, itself a vivid character--an enormous ...more

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