Two weeks until Dracula Daily starts!
Last year I kept up for about two months, not sure if I can do better this year…
https://draculadaily.substack.com/about if anyone is interested!
“She is one of God‘s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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We are back with a jam packed episode! First off, we discuss the massive 2005 hit, “The Historian“ by Elizabeth Kostova. We gave inklings that one of us didn't like the book and Peter details why. And we go from there. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BA5kmuvztPZiDsW5fjOqa
I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
Day 33
#ABookADay2024
pickFinished / Staring in audiobooks today
#audiobooks #finishedstarting
I don't think this was the best book for audio, but it was fascinating. I have an annotated Dracula and I think this book is a great companion.
It pieces together writings, Oscar Wilde and history. It‘s a slice of LGBTQ+ history and how the community lived in mid to late 1800 Ireland. How all of this helped make Dracula. All of the influence, references, imagery, etc.
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Dracula by Bram Stoker (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), edited by John Paul Riquelme
📖 The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
📖 The Anglo-Saxon Age (A Very Short Introduction) by John Blair
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
Visited a cookies & coffee place earlier that had a mini-library. (It was the latter that drew me to the place more than the former. But the cookies were really good though.)
Was pleasantly surprised to see my favorite book there. 🩵
3 May. Bistritz— Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late.
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so-soTold in a series of diary entries, letters, newspaper articles, letters, and telegrams, we follow John and Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, Dr. Seward, and Professor Van Helsing as they investigate strange happenings, Lucy‘s mysterious illness and eventual death, and folklore while trying to stop the dangerous newcomer, Count Dracula.
I am very happy I finally read Dracula, as it was the only book I read in October that I loved that I hadn't read already. We shall see what happens in November and December. #2023ReadingBracket
