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Apr 3, 2012 · Suffice to say, Deborah Harkness is the most successful wine blogger in the world. "A Discovery of Witches is a tale of the supernatural in which erudite, scholarly, sexy, and contentious vampires, witches and daemons take center stage. The book is a mystery a love story and a puzzle and, importantly, it is great fun to read.
— On the patio of the Langham Huntington hotel here, on a sunny afternoon tinged with smoke from the recent wildfires in the area, Deborah Harkness swirled a glass of Jules Taylor sauvignon...
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Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. She has received Fullbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships, and her most recent scholarly work is The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. She also writes an award-winning wine blog, Good Wine Under $20.
A Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical -fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after finding a long-thought-lost manuscript and engages in a forbidden romance with a charming vampire, Matthew Clairmont.
Mar 10, 2014 · There were echoes of lots of other books, though. The way the story began with the discovery of a manuscript in the library was reminiscent of The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (one of the few vampire books I have read) and the backstory involving Diana’s parents reminded me of the Harry Potter books.
Something to Celebrate. Five years ago, on 7 October 2006, I wrote my first blog post after going wine shopping. Here we are, more than 714, 000 visitors later. As with most things in life there have been ups and downs, some bumps in the road, and some unexpected miracles which led to... Deborah Harkness. Subscribe to Deb's Newsletter. Calendar.
On the other thought, wine tends to make me sleepy. So does this book. It would have been quite a snoozefest combo. Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous amount of page space given to an inter-species yoga session. Could have been worse, I suppose; it could have been vampire baseball. Or vampire cross-stitching, for all the excitement it brings.
