emily’s Reviews > Dracula > Status Update

gonna finish this today, not least because van helsing's dialect is torturous to make sense of so i'm skimming most of it /o\

"They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due."

just kidding van helsing can never say anything in 5 words when 25 will do. UGH.

f i n a l l y van helsing and mina are talking, now some stuff could actually start HAPPENING.

i love reading this via the dracula daily emails, they come in with subject lines like "a giant bat? probably no big deal." i must admit that despite knowing i've read this before i remember almost nothing about it; the gary oldman movie is much more vivid in my mind, and jonathan will always be a little bit keanu to me. :3

oof, i just pulled up the full text of dracula on project gutenberg to check my progress and i'm way less far into it than i thought-- the downside of reading it serially, lol. i might pick up reading it at my own pace and then just revisit the entries as they come into my email...

june apparently is a slow month for jonathan & co as these 2 updates (today and yesterday) were only a paragraph each, so i'm not even going to advance the percentage.

the mailing list warned that there's a break of a few weeks in the diary entries, so it'll be a little while before i update this again. i'm torn, because i'm really enjoying it being parceled out bit by bit, but i also really want to keep going, lol. we'll see how i'm feeling.

"Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?"

lucy westenra coming in hot for the mmf romance girlies