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Ah, yes, the #1 song of my senior year in high school (1983). We all thought it was romantic and didn't realize at the time it was also one of the best stalker songs ever written. #yeahwewerethatstupid
With that in mind, I chose DRACULA as a stalker of 🩸.

#VolumesandVocals
#EveryBreathYouTake
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My number one #ReadDuringAStorm book. Undoubtedly because of the massive storm the first time I read it mirroring the weather in the book. #MayMontage @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I was interested in reading the book because I wanted to see where our modern conceptions of vampires came from, & that aspect of the novel was definitely interesting. But, that was just about the only part of the book that I enjoyed. The pace was mind-numbingly slow, & the plot was relatively uneventful. Stoker could have gone in so many interesting directions, but instead he had endless pages of droning on about unimportant details.

#Dracula #BramStoker #book #books #bookmark #bookmarks #bookmarket #bookmarkets #bookmoment #bookmoments #bookquote #bookquotes #bookqueen #bookquirk #quote #quotes #bookworm #bookworms #bookwormlife #bookwormproblem #bookwormproblems #bookworld #bookword #epicreads #bookend #bookends #bookending #bookendings #bookedit #bookedits #bookeditor #bookeditors #Classics #Horror #Fiction #Fantasy #Vampires #Gothic #Paranormal #Literature #Audiobook 💚💚

Well Dracula is finally a wrap!! I spontaneously signed up for the #DraculaDaily emails back in May, but also bought a physical copy because I just don't like reading on screens very much. Plus, I obviously need as many Penguins Classics as possible!! At any rate, I did enjoy this one, but I think I did it a disservice by reading it across such a long period of time when I had never read it before. During times in the story where a chunk of time⬇️

Last year I read and loved Frankenstein for the first time so this year I settled into Dracula, and I loved it, too - the writing is gorgeous. I started this weeks ago and read a couple chapters at a time until the final stretch- a good approach for me. I was surprised that Dracula was the subject but not the main character of the story. But Lucy, Mina and the men who fought for her honor were great characters.

Oct #DoubleSpin

This book contains racism against the Slavic, the Baltic, and people of color, it is offensive to them. I am protesting this book, and I‘m reading Craven Manor for my Halloween book now.

October funnies! #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious

My October read this year is the original vampire. After finally reading this I am astonished how well it has held up. It was creepy, scary and exciting and while Dracula may not be my favorite vampire he is definitely pretty great in this.

#scarathlon #scarathlondailyprompts #vampire #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious

#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Vampire

#Scarathlon2022
#TeamMonsterMash
@Clwojick @StayCurious

#thoughtfulthursday Thanks @Eggs for the tag!

Pecan pie
Hot tea
Thanksgiving dinner
My fave fall activity was gardening but with a bum elbow I have to find a new ❤️
Vampires
Accessories? I have no idea
Holidays-all of them 🎃 🦃 🎄

Just a reminder for Amazon prime members, Dracula as ebook is always free. Great timing for #scarathlon

#teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious

The audiobook is also free for Audible members and it has an awesome cast

Didn't quite make the 20 hours but definitely read more than 20 chapters. Also finished two books. Great start to #Scarathlon and more points for #TeamSlaughter
@Clwojick @Andrew65

My October read this year

I decided that this classic will be my halloween book for the year

Day 2 of #SinisterArt
I am using the tagged book for Rick Beerhorst's painting, as my first encounter with his work was via a post for a Dracula related podcast. Beerhorst has completed a series of similar portraits. Several of which are featured at the following LitHub article:
https://lithub.com/im-obsessed-with-rick-beerhorsts-surrealist-odes-to-reading/

Well that was creepy. The graphics in this are so well done. So detailed and haunting. I have always enjoyed this story but first time reading it like this and I enjoyed it. 15pts for #TeamSlaughter and book 2 read for #20in4
#Scarathlon @Clwojick @Andrew65

I can‘t believe it‘s already October! 👻 🎃

#bookspin #doublespin

I‘ve started rereading this (for the umpteenth time), but this time I‘ve decided to listen to it. I want to compare it while I‘m reading the Swedish edition*, which is double the length so I can pick up the differences in real time. The Swedish edition is a chunkster, so I‘m hoping this will be enough of a head start to finish for #scarathlon. #teamslaughter #chunksterchallenge2022 @Clwojick @Amiable

Who knew there was a Spanish version of Dracula? This is fascinating!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci8hu-JPau7/?igshid=MmIxOGMzMTU=

📘Dracula
✍🏼Dickinson
🎥 The Devil Wears Prada
🎤Dolly of course ♥️
🎶🎵🎶 Dance me to the end of love.

#MANICMONDAY #LETTERD

Already he knows her sweetness and loving care; later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.
#Dracula #BramStoker #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #bookshop #bookshopper #booksale #Classics #Horror #Fiction #Fantasy #Vampires #Gothic #Paranormal #Literature #Audiobook #19thCentury

Catching up on the #AlphabetGame #letterD

I think I didn‘t read a lot of books with title D, so putting this up. I enjoyed this classic horror. Glad to have read the original text which many vampire fictions and movies owe much to it.

I had started Dracula forever ago for an undergrad class, but chose to leave it unfinished as readings were piling up. This time, instead of reading my physical copy, I listened to the audiobook. And I finally finished it. It‘s a good story. Different from what you‘d expect from pop culture representations of Dracula (or even Van Helsing). The Audible-exclusive audiobook has multiple narrators, including Tim Curry!

No better way to start a Sunday :)

Only a third of the way through and I love this book, I can't believe it has taken me this long to read it.

Hope everybody's having a great day! 👍

#horror #LazySunday #drownmeincoffee

Lazy morning annotating my deep read of the month, Dracula with one of my fur babies. Been really enjoying using highlights to annotate, feels a lot more realistic than using sticky tabs and I can make sure everything I want marked is easily marked. Also loving to see how far the vampire lore/genre has come since this classic was released in the 1800s!

Do you annotate your books at all?

For 2022 I wants to deep read at least one book a month and wanted to read more classics so I slammed the two goals together and feel like I‘m back in college. For June I‘m reading Dracula and since I was out of sticky tabs, I decided to try using different colored highlights and am loving the results!

Fairly book-related news post… 🧛‍♂️

I posted about this upcoming world record attempt when you first posted about #draculadaily, Sarah.

Well, they did it! 1369 vampires, all wearing the correct attire, descended upon Whitby Abbey yesterday and smashed the previous record!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-61597097

I have several books I‘d like to finish before the end of the month — not sure that will happen though. Definitely want to finish Dracula, A Shot at Normal, and Finlay Donovan is Killing it.

#20in4

I am loving this new trend of Classic newsletters! 📖

1. Yes! Dracula! And also Frankenstein, although that one hasn‘t started yet.
2. I think they‘re brilliant and reigniting a desire for serialized fiction.
3. Moby Dick. I‘m not sure how that would work, but maybe I could finally make it through that book! 😂

#SundayFunday Have a fantastic day and remember to tag me!

Just found #draculadaily and I'm so excited!!! I've been wanting an excuse to try Dracula since I learned about the Rosenbach's Sundays with Dracula from the beginning of the pandemic, so finding Dracula Daily was perfect! I've been catching up today and am already hooked. 🧛🏻‍♂️

#wondrouswednesday

1) no; but I dream whole stories. When I wrote one of them for college creative writing, the prof said it was my best writing yet. I should write more of them down. I even remember some of these dreams as if they‘re books

2) tagged (I‘m weird)

3) sigh, surgery in 2 weeks on my elbow—so getting my books organized today has helped me prepare for downtime to read

Want to play @Nute @GingerAntics @KristiAhlers @Catsandbooks ?

I was honestly not anticipating having this much fun reading Dracula, but I am LOVING it! I actually got a hard copy so that I can follow along/kind of see what is coming next, so I wasn't expecting to get another email until May 12, Jonathan's next entry. However, the SubStack is putting everything in chronological order instead of sticking strictly to the book order - so this letter from Mina appeared today even though it isn't until the next ⬇

#Dracula #BramStoker #book #books #bookz #bookzesty #bookzilla #bookzine #bookzone #bookxcess #bookcollection #bookcollector #bookcase #bookcases #bookcover #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverdesigner #bookclub #bookclubs #bookvibe #bookvibes #bookvsfilm #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogger #bookbackpacks #bookbackpack #booknerd #booknerds #booknerdsunite #booknerdy #Classics #Horror #Fiction #Fantasy #Vampires 💜💜

Did you all get your first installment of #DraculaDaily today? I honestly cracked up when I saw the introductory tagline! 😂 I am genuinely excited to read this classic in “real time“!

For those who missed it, someone on Substack is sending out Dracula on the days that match the journals, letters, etc. Link below!!

@KristiAhlers @Cortg @Readergrrl @Clare-Dragonfly @DivineDiana @PuddleJumper @Cortg @Avanders @BookwormAHN @Maggie4483

An interesting way to describe dracula, or the vampire lore. Halfway through the book and the third act is getting better and better.
#dracula #sundayreading #vampires #classics #horror #thriller #romanticbook

So someone over on substack is sending out the entire book of Dracula via email ***on the day each event happens in the book***!! I've never actually read this one, but apparently it's an epistolary novel?? (Didn't know this) So... the entire book has dates for each section, and the person hosting this sends you that section of the book on the correct day. The book starts May 3 & ends Nov 10, and so do the emails - check it out here (it's free!!)⬇

One of the classics that I have recently started reading.

#two4tuesday Thank you @TheSpineView and @Eggs for the tag!

1) tagged; & a childhood fave Rebecca, & not counting “The,” then the Historian. And a book I‘m reading now, Roots. All excellent books and their titles speak volumes. Excellent question.

2) certainly based on (1), a compelling argument can be made that is the case with the right title for the right story.

But there are gorgeous multi-word titles too. So I refuse to discriminate! 😉

1. Loved the tagged - Dracula
2. Not necessarily - a good title gets me interested in the book no matter how many words or letters/numbers (thinking of NOS4A2 by Joe Hill) -
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView
#Two4Tuesday

consider yourself tagged and make a great day -

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 🌷

1. I'm not great at it, I own quite a few but I'm bad at picking them up.

2. Drakula by Bram Stoker

Van Helsing was nothing if not thorough.

A forever favorite line 😂😂🤣

There was this secondhand bookstore ...
And I just couldn't resist 😔

I didn't get a hold of this during the big B&N sale, so I ordered it after the fact and I don't even care that I paid more because LOOK AT IT! That soft-to-the-touch cover....those delightful page edges! I can't wait for it to be Fall again so I can dive into it! ❤🦇❤

*RE-READ* I needed to revisit this old favorite, to check it off The List, and I picked a good time to do it. I love how 🦇 💩 everything is in this book. It‘s just one insane journey to the next. It‘s not the same as the movies (as some of my fellow students asked) but I feel it‘s better. There‘s an oppressive, ominous presence that permeates the narrative. Mina‘s a boss. Shoulda named my daughter for her. I love it. 😊 209/1,001 #1001Books

One of my favorite Christmas gifts: 1000 piece puzzle called The World of Dracula. Isn‘t it marvelous??

Can‘t do #Scarathlon without Dracula. #TeamHendrix #Wickedathon #SpookOWeen #Screamathon #ReadWithUs