From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country – The Shadow Land A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by…
Book Blogger Blind Date:: Food & Drink In Books
Sammie and I got matched up by Jillian at Rant & Rave about Books for a blind date with each other, and despite neither of us being good at answering emails, we managed to come up with a fun post that relates to books and food – two topics that rarely lead us astray! Sammie lives…
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books Set Outside the US
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, so go see what other bloggers decided to write about for this week’s prompt! For my first ever foray into book memes, today’s theme is Top Ten Books Set Outside the US. I took this to mean books set in the real world, so…
Review: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history… Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘My dear and unfortunate successor’. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her…