Deborah Harkness
Autor(a) de A Discovery of Witches
About the Author
Deborah Harkness was born in 1965. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, a M. A. from Northwestern University in 1990, and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Davis in 1994. She is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. Harkness is a mostrar mais well-regarded historian of science and medicine, specializing in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, was published in 2011. She is the author of the All Souls Trilogy. In 2006, she began a wine blog entitled, Good Wine Under $20. It provides an online record of her search for the best, most affordable wines. She made The New York Times Bestseller List with The Book of Life and Shadow of Night. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Harkness at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72310946
Séries
Obras por Deborah Harkness
The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life (2018) — Autor — 251 exemplares
Diana Bishop's Commonplace Book 2 exemplares
A Discovery of Witches: Series 1-2 — Executive Producer — 2 exemplares
Stín noci (Čas čarodějnic, #2) 1 exemplar
The Blackbird Oracle (All Souls, #5) 1 exemplar
Kniha života (Čas čarodějnic, #3) 1 exemplar
Your Heart Belongs to Me 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1965-04-05
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educação
- Mount Holyoke College (BA ∙ Renaissance Studies)
Northwestern University (MA ∙ Tudor-Stuart History)
University of California at Davis (PhD ∙ Early Modern Europe/History of Science) - Ocupações
- professor
author
Professor of history at the University of Southern California - Organizações
- Colgate University
University of California, Davis
University of Southern California
Renaissance Society of America
North American Conference on British Studies
American Historical Association - Prémios e menções honrosas
- John Ben Snow Prize (British Studies)
Pfizer Prize (History of Science)
Highly Commended, Longman/History Today Prize - Agente
- Sam Stoloff (Frances Goldin)
Rich Green (CAA)
Membros
Críticas
The Book of Life: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) por Deborah Harkness
I'm not sure what happened with this third book. I really liked the first two but this one just dragged until the last third. I read the first two and listened to this one so maybe it was that I couldn't skim the less interesting part. Whatever the reason, I did not find this one as entertaining as the first two in the series!
Ok, I’ll be honest. I actually didn’t want to like this book. I wanted it to be a Twilight clone, with an annoying bossy vampire and a characterless lady protagonist. And in some ways, it is.
I did get annoyed with Matthew being being a big bossy bully, and with him being impossibly handsome and attractive all the time. I did get annoyed with everyone treating Diana like a helpless kid and she just leaning back and letting people bathe her and feed her and whatever.
I did not learn anything useful from this book, I did not change, it never profoundly moved me in any way. But still I read it, and kept reading it, laughing at the more humorous parts, shaking my head at the annoying parts, picking it up whenever I was free to.
I also started reading the second book in the series as soon as I finished this. So yeah. What can I say, apparently I do like it. Quite a lot.… (mais)
I did get annoyed with Matthew being being a big bossy bully, and with him being impossibly handsome and attractive all the time. I did get annoyed with everyone treating Diana like a helpless kid and she just leaning back and letting people bathe her and feed her and whatever.
I did not learn anything useful from this book, I did not change, it never profoundly moved me in any way. But still I read it, and kept reading it, laughing at the more humorous parts, shaking my head at the annoying parts, picking it up whenever I was free to.
I also started reading the second book in the series as soon as I finished this. So yeah. What can I say, apparently I do like it. Quite a lot.… (mais)
Some parts of this really dragged for me (hence why it took me 10 days to read it) but I loved the story as a whole.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 23,297
- Popularidade
- #906
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1,168
- ISBN
- 232
- Línguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 69
- Pedras de toque
- 471
