Trying to get my reading on again!
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It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
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Lucy has three suitors! A bit like Jonathon when you think about it :P
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It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
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I know now the span of my life. God help me!
It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
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The Brides of Dracula make an appearance! Turning to mist, the first sign of their thirst for blood, a sign that the wolves and the Brides are one in the same, and the horror of realising that Dracula carries a child in his sack to give to the brides!
Things have started to get real. Gone are the hints, and the foreshadowing, we are now starting to pull the mask back to reveal the horror at the core of this story.
I am thoroughly enjoying reading the book in this manner. Normally, I would have sped through several chapters, without time to truly digest them, but pausing after each entry, thinking about the events therein, the impact of the moments revealed are strengthened for me having done so, for having dwelled on each moment and each sign!
It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
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A short entry today. A small bit of exploration whilst the count is absent. I find myself wondering whether we will reach the point where Jonathon goes "Oh, a vampire, this makes so much sense now" or whether the vampire trope is assumed to be entirely unknown to the reader, so the story will unfold without Jonathon ever really know what to expect before it happens.
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This is my first time reading Dracula, and one thing that I'm finding fascinating is just how much this book has shaped the way we perceive vampires in fiction. Wall crawling, prodigious strength, lack of reflection,pointed canine teeth. These traits are used as foreshadowing in the novel, presumably because these things were not appealing to a widely known archetype. To a modern reader though, they're not so much tools to foreshadow, as a brick through the window in terms of subtlety, and it's this book and those moments that have had such success as to turn them in to tropes. I wonder what it would have been like to read the novel naively, unaware of what's coming?
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The first in a thrilling line of novels set in Eberron, a fantasy world ravaged …
141 pages
The first in a thrilling line of novels set in Eberron, a fantasy world ravaged …
28% of the way through. Enjoying it more than I expected to.
It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
8th of May
It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
7th of May.
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was …
It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
So, I just discovered thanks to the #fediverse, that Dracula, which is written as a series of journal entries, starts its first entry on the 3rd of May! So, for something different, I am going to first play catch up (today being the 5th of May) and then read the rest of the book in "real time", reading each journal entry on the matching calendar day!
The first in a thrilling line of novels set in Eberron, a fantasy world ravaged …
I don't have high hopes for this, but, I'm running a D&D game in Eberron at the moment, so it won't hurt!
A book where I found the ideas it explored far more interesting than the story and characters. It explores gender, sexuality, personality, free will and even memory in the context of a society where those things can be altered at will, sometimes against ones will. That part I found compelling, and unique. The story itself was fun and engaging, but I think I prefer my stories to be a bit more gritty and with more greys and less black and white.