I love this review and will pass it on via Facebook and reblogging if I can figure out how to do it. Great job.
Though I possess many great qualities (reversing without a backup camera being one of them), some habits may seem odd to the ordinary eye. For instance, I often listen to music while actively doing anything. Writing, driving, homework, and yes, even reading. Music, for me, adds another layer to the moment–it enhances my reading experience by providing a perfect auditory background to support my relaxing pastime activity. In the case of The Secret History by Donna Tartt, no music was played. In fact, I tried to listen to music at first; still, it was too distracting, and I found myself continually shh-ing my speaker. The Secret History, in all its plain existence, is wondrously alluring. The story begins in medias res, capturing our attention from the first sentence: “The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the…
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Following the death of her last living relative, Hetty Deveraux leaves London and her strained relationship behind for Muirlan, her ancestral home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. She intends to renovate the ruinous house into a hotel, but the shocking discovery of human remains brings her ambitious restoration plans to an abrupt halt before they even begin. Few physical clues are left to identify the body, but one thing is certain: this person did not die a natural death.
I’d like to welcome Author Kristen Harnisch today to talk with me about her book, The Vintner’s Daughter. Internationally published author Kristen Harnisch drew upon her extensive research and her experiences living in San Francisco and visiting the Loire Valley and Paris to create the stories for THE CALIFORNIA WIFE and her first novel, THE VINTNER’S DAUGHTER. Ms. Harnisch has a degree in economics from Villanova University and currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and three children.
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