Show threadDr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖Sep 16, 2023

#DarkAcademia work:
#TheHistorian by #ElizabethKostova (2005)

Quote:
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

#Gothic #Books #31DABooks

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Stefan KumpfmüllerFeb 28, 2023
"In 1972, I was sixteen - young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions."
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Stefan KumpfmüllerJan 19, 2023
"He looks instead, the abbot thinks, as if all the world is before him."
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Dana RailNov 11, 2022

#Bookstodon, @littleseamstress and I have been canoodling about making a "fave books" post on our website, so here's just for starters, in no order:

Blood Meridian by #CormacMcCarthy

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell AND Piranesi by #SusannaClarke

Foucault's Pendulum by #UmbertoEco

#LotR of course

Meditations on the Tarot by #ValentinTomberg

The Historian by #ElizabethKostova

The Secret History by #DonnaTartt

The Man in the High Castle by #PDK