{"id":921,"date":"2011-08-26T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=921"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:58:33","slug":"the-historian-by-elizabeth-kostova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Historian-Cover-Image.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Historian-Cover-Image-206x300.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My friend Bill over at <a href=\"http:\/\/tulsagentleman.blogspot.com\/\"><b><span style=\"color: orange;\">Tulsa Gentleman<\/span><\/b><\/a> suggested this book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Historian-Elizabeth-Kostova\/dp\/0316011770%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0316011770\" rel=\"amazon\" title=\"The Historian\">The Historian<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Kostova\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Elizabeth Kostova\">Elizabeth Kostova<\/a>. I saw it at a used book store and snatched it up, cheap. And what a find it was. I love this book. It is a multi-generational story set in eastern Europe. It&#8217;s got old old libraries and&nbsp;monasteries&nbsp;and crypts and all sorts of stuff. But mainly this book is about the hunt for a vampire. Not just any vampire but the granddaddy of all vampires.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dracula.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dracula.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vlad_III_the_Impaler\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Vlad III the Impaler\">Vlad the Impaler<\/a>, a very mean dude, an actual historical character who killed tens of thousands of people. His favorite method, impaling a person on a pole and planting the pole in the ground. The Christian Church loved him though because he was good at fighting off the Muslims who were encroaching in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway he turned himself into a vampire. An old school vampire right out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bramstoker.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" title=\"Bram Stoker\">Bram Stoker<\/a>&#8216;s novel.&nbsp;Chasing him are a band of intrepid, shabby, scholars of&nbsp;medieval&nbsp;history who are trying to trace his whereabouts in the 20th century by searching for and examining documents and books more than a thousand years old. During their search they find romance and intrigue in the countryside.<\/p>\n<p>I give the book four stars out of five. It is a great read. I took it on vacation and read it on the beach.&nbsp;Elizabeth Kostova is quite a story teller. I&#8217;ll be reading more of her.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Bill over at Tulsa Gentleman suggested this book, &#8220;The Historian&#8221; by Elizabeth Kostova. I saw it at a used book store and snatched it up, cheap. And what a find it was. I love this book. It is a multi-generational story set in eastern Europe. It&#8217;s got old old libraries and&nbsp;monasteries&nbsp;and crypts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}