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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

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Thrilled to meet more Dark Shadows fans during the #DSbuddyread. Our discussions really enhanced this haunting story. Loved delving into Victoria Winter's past & her deeper connection to the Collins family. Plus Lara's alter ego Angelique was bound to show up & wreak more havoc for Barnabas.
Thx @rubyslippersreads 🤗 for all the fun! Would ❤️to do another one. Maybe Wolf Moon Rising with Quentin?
(Lara photo from:collingsporthistoricalsociety.com)

rubyslippersreads I'd ❤️❤️❤️ to do another #dsbuddyread! I was excited to find out how many #DSLittens there are here. 😊❤️🦇 7y

MemoirsForMe @rubyslippersreads Yay! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻When you do another #DSbuddyread, count me in! 😊🙌🏻 P.S. Did you notice my Josette music box under Barnabas' chin? 😁 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme I did notice your music box. You have a nice DS collection. 😊🦇 7y

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

I'm behind on the last section of the #dsbuddyread. I'll catch up in a couple of days. 🦇 #darkshadows

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

I've been busy with real life, so I think we're a week behind on our discussion. Hope no one minds. #DSBuddyRead #darkshadows

After Stephon's visit, Vicki has a horrendous hangover and sees ghosts (pretty normal for Collinwood—the ghosts and the drinking ?). And the opossums are back. Maybe Mrs. Johnson too.

Don't you think it's fun to "borrow" Joan Bennett's film career for Liz's past? She was so glamorous. ⬇️⬇️

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rubyslippersreads Vicki meets up with Maggie again, and just like in the first episode (I just rewatched it), has a roast beef sandwich. Maggie warns her about Stephon, the way she warned her about Collinwood. (At least she doesn't call Vicki a jerk this time. 😄)

Barnabas finally appears! But there are a lot of mixed emotions on both sides, and he makes an unusual request. ⬇️⬇️ 7y

rubyslippersreads Vicki visits the gypsy camp, makes a interesting discovery involving Magda the gypsy, and has a "date" with Stephon. If Barnabas is her potential Mr. Rochester, Stephon is a very scary St. John. ? 7y

AmyG I am all finished. This book brought back so many memories. 🦇 7y

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rubyslippersreads @AmyG I know—for me too! 🦇❤️ 7y

CocoReads No worries on my end—I‘ve been super busy as well and haven‘t made it past the gypsy camp. 7y

Readerann I just finished Chapter 6, so am way behind. I hope to catch up this week, though. This is making me want to watch the show all over again! And, yes, Joan Bennett was very glamorous. (edited) 7y

MemoirsForMe I was really surprised about Maggie's attitude toward Vicki when they saw each other after all those years. I always thought Maggie was sugary sweet. 😁 Everyone seems to be out of character from their original roles. Except Barnabas. He always knows how to steal the scene. 😍🙌🏻 7y

MemoirsForMe @rubyslippersreads Do you own the complete DS series. I must invest! 7y

Laura317 Ha! I finished the book already. No spoilers here. I was confused with the possums appearing/disappearing again. Stephon certainly acted odd on their “date”. I still want to shake some sense into Vickie. Barnabas is great, though. 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme Maggie's character here is more like it was at the beginning of the show , not as it evolved throughout the series, which I found kind of disappointing. But you and @Laura317 are right—Barnabas is great. 🦇❤️ 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme My mom had bought all the DVDs, so I have the set. 😊 7y

rubyslippersreads @Readerann I read a fascinating NF book about Joan and her famous acting family,

Bennetts: An Acting Family

Dragon 🖤🧛‍♂️ 7y

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

It‘s #Caturday! Time to catch up on this one for the #DarkShadows buddy read!

Gina Ohmygosh! ♡ Dark Shadows... I even have a t-shirt... 7y

rubyslippersreads @Gina it's not too late to join our #DSBuddyRead. 😊🦇 7y

rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 mug! 7y

Gina @rubyslippersreads awww thanks but I am a single mom of 3 active boys and my time is so limited. Some day I will launch some amazing men into the world and then it's ON! 7y

Dragon 🖤🧛‍♂️ 7y

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

It's nice to revisit the Blue Whale. Tho Vicki considering picking up a boy toy seems a bit out of character. ?

The flashbacks to Vicki's orphanage days are interesting, but harrowing. And we meet an old "friend," Charity Trask. She would have fit right in at Lowood School.

Vicki also encounters Willie Loomis. Anyone else disappointed that, although Vicki thinks of him rather wistfully, Barnabas still hasn't made an appearance?

#dsbuddyread

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MemoirsForMe I agree. I can't imagine prim and proper Vicki being so flirty and man hungry. Very unlike the Vicki from the original show. I don't remember Mrs. Trask, but she's just as nasty as the Reverend Trask. 7y

MemoirsForMe And I guess Lara likes to tease us so we'll keep anticipating the arrival of Barnabas. Is anyone else a John Karlen fan? I loved him on DS and Cagney & Lacey. Good old Harv! 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme Charity was Rev. Trask's daughter in 1897. And yes, she's a chip off the old block. 😏 7y

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rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme She's going to make us wait for Barnabas. 😄 And I thought John Karlen made a great Willie. But I think Carl Collins might have been his best role. 😊 7y

MemoirsForMe Oh yes, Carl Collins. That's taking me back. 😊👍🏻 7y

Mollyanna Again playing catch up... I too thought it a little odd that Vicki considered using Nick as a boy toy. I‘m also a little piqued that every man that comes across Vicki instantly falls in love with her. 7y

Mollyanna Does anyone else think Vogelsang might be a Nazi? Life force experiments started in Germany in the 1940s? Historically we know that the Nazis were big into the occult and medical experiments. 7y

rubyslippersreads @Mollyanna This definitely crossed my mind too. 7y

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

Because Barnabas is a #vampire, these will probably soon be #deadroses. However Victoria Winters is an orphan so no #papadontpreach, and listening to Josette's music box makes her #quietlyhappy. #thisremindsmeof #heartsandhardcovers #fiercefeb #happinessisresistance #dsbuddyread #darkshadows #multitasking (Image from Pinterest.)

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🌹🌹🌹 7y

Cinfhen Too bad this isn‘t a game show...you have a real talent for daily mashups!!! 7y

rubyslippersreads @Cinfhen Thanks! I wish it were a game show where the prizes were books. 😄 7y

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rubyslippersreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😊 7y

Cinfhen Hahaha!!! How awesome would that be 7y

MemoirsForMe Love this photo! I still have my original Josette's music box. I ordered it ages ago and it still works! 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme I have mine too! 😊🦇❤️ 7y

MemoirsForMe Cool! I think you're the only person I know who also has the music box. Oh, you ARE a DS groupie! 😁🙌🏻 7y

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

1. Getting together with old friends who are in town, going to see another friend in the play "Nunsense," watching Olympics ?
2. 5'8" ??
3. 4 years in our cozy house, 30 years in California ?
4. #dsbuddyread that's tagged, Cinder ?
#friyayintro

??to @jesshowbooks

PurpleyPumpkin Great selfie!👍🏽 7y

MemoirsForMe @PurpleyPumpkin 🤗💕 7y

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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood | Lara Parker

Ch 1-6 discussion. 😊🦇

We open in 1797. I always knew Peter Bradford would be a boring husband. 😄 No wonder Vicki has regrets about what might have been with Barnabas. And time travel isn't all it's cracked up to be. No modern conveniences, even by 1970s standards.

In the present, Vicki returns to an empty Collinwood. Where is the Collins family? And where did the opossums come from? 😱

What do you think so far?

#dsbuddyread #darkshadows

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AmyG Remember there was a room that if you entered, you went into another time? I wondered if the Collins family was escaping something/someone and are in another time. Or...vampires. As for the opposums...no idea. 7y

rubyslippersreads @AmyG I vaguely remember a plot line in the series (maybe parallel time) where Barnabas and Julia found Collinwood empty. But I can't remember what happened after that. 7y

AmyG I vaguely remember most of the show. I kept googling. Characters to remind myself what hey looked like. Ah, parallel time. 7y

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Arcana I LOVE Dark Shadows! ❤️❤️❤️ 7y

Dragon Barnabas 🦇🖤 7y

CocoReads I‘m having trouble getting into it😧 I think it‘s been too long since I‘ve seen the show. I‘m thinking of spending some quality time with amazon prime this weekend so I can refresh my memory of who everyone is. 😬 7y

rubyslippersreads @Arcana Feel free to join our buddy read. We're just getting started. 😊🦇 7y

rubyslippersreads Anyone who is confused (and it's hard not to be 😄) might find this link helpful. I would suggest reading Sections 1, 6, and 9, and skipping the rest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows_(televised_storylines) 7y

rubyslippersreads @AmyG To confuse everyone even more, the Vicki Winters in this photo isn't the original actress. The first one left to have a baby, and they recast a couple of times, but finally gave up and sent Vicki to the past with Peter Bradford. 7y

rubyslippersreads @CocoReads That sounds like fun. 😄🦇 7y

Laura317 I think the Collins family is locked up in the basement. Or dungeon. Or attic. The possums were supposed to ruin evidence of a vampire attack. 7y

Arcana If I can find it at my local library, I‘ll join. Sounds like a great read! 😊 7y

MemoirsForMe I keep thinking that they're stuck back in time. Maybe she wasn't the only one that slipped back into the past. 🤔 7y

MemoirsForMe I love how in the Acknowledgments Lara mentioned the actors and actresses she pictured in her mind as she wrote each character. Makes it so much more fun for us! 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme Me too. It's kind of a tribute to the way DS used the same actors in multiple roles. 7y

rubyslippersreads @UwannaPublishme Could be. And I find it interesting that Vicki is aware that, if it happened once, it could happen again. 7y

Mollyanna So I‘m playing catch up on the read and discussion. I‘m wondering if the opossums are symbolic of something? As for the family. I‘m also on board with the thought that they are in the attic or dungeon. 7y

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