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So far this is giving me the vibes of if The Princess Bride was a circa 2015 series on Syfy (in a mostly complimentary way)

After a few days of tumblr memes I decided to follow along with Dracula Daily this year!

Re-reading the novellas so I can finally catch up on the series! Can't wait.

I cannot believe this is a debut novel.

"Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind's eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect."

Hard to believe this hasn't become an HBO limited series already.

The Altar by Charles Simic

My first Heyer mystery and super enjoying how the genre switch takes the hijinks out of the romance and into the whodunit instead.

Look, I get she's getting manipulated at best, controlled at worst (take off that damn amulet!) but I'm not sure how much more I can take of our heroine accidentally on purpose killing people and disfiguring children....I think I'll skim read the rest of this and move on to book 4.

I flew through the first two books in 2.5 days TOTAL but have only made it through 11% of this one in the same amount of time. The nature of this one's plot has me too stressed by half.

Jeez Louise. What a book to just pick up w/o reading the blurb.

I don't know why I waited so long to read this (another case of basing my vibe off the cover rather than reading the blurb perhaps?) but a Much Ado About Nothing retelling set in Prohibition NYC? Yes, please. This is delightful so far.

September Twelfth, 2001 by X. J. Kennedy

Dang, this sequel isn't messing around.

Children's Hospital, Emergency Room by Gregory Djanikian

"So Rudi," he said, "we have been discussing Jane Austen. Tell us what you think of her."

"My opinion has yet to be formed," said Rudi. "I have read not one word."

"Ah, a philistine," said Stefan. "I have always wanted to meet one."

Calling him back from the layoff by Bob Hicok

A Poem for Emily by Miller Williams

Going to do some status updates to keep track of my favorite poems in this collection. Up first: the little horse is newlY by e.e. cummings

Feeling more forgiving of the last installment because it set up this one perfectly. This has been SO GOOD so far—a mystery with personal stakes, the culmination of a series worth of relationship building sprung into motion, excitement but also room to sit and explore—I love it.

Gotta love a hero who asks his dog for relationship advice.

Perhaps my favorite thing about Heyer is her willingness to give her heroes a sense of humor.

The elemental personality aspect isn't as front and center in this heroine as it's been with the last three which seems like a waste. Time will tell I guess!

"I had come out to my mother as a gay man, but within minutes, I realized I had not come out to her as myself."