Grace B > Recent Status Updates

As I mentioned in my previous update, I didn’t have ever rereading Dracula on my bingo card, but I agreed to do a read-along with one of my students this month. Having read it before, I’m noticing details (hints) that I wouldn’t have caught previously and that IS the fun in its being an epistolary novel.

The chapters on watching Joan Benoit’s 1984 Olympic marathon and his own failed Olympic trials dream were both really powerful.

I did not really ever plan to reread Dracula, but I agreed to a read-along with one of my students since I’m skipping The Good Earth for the next WRM pick. (Once REALLY IS enough for that one.)

Currently seem to be starting more books than finishing but that’s the season of new school year.

It got a bit dicey when he threw his meager handful of corn into the ground in the wrong season but at least we got a sermon about how he deserved all his trials as punishment from God.

Although not intentionally humorous, I’m finding this book to be really amusing and highly enjoyable. It’s incredible that it’s a bit over 300 years old and still SO readable and contemporary-feeling. It uses no slang so there’s nothing unfamiliar in the language to decipher. I really like it so far!

So many ways I see myself in these characters (and so many ways I do not as well).

SMALL complaint: I feel he had the kids’ ages wrong in the timeline for when they were in Florence. How could Hallie have been 14 but Lang was in college? And if Hallie was 14, how could Barney have been in grad school? And how could this have been 20 years before 1972? Lang and David were born in March 1938…

Just beautifully written