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Van Helsing: “Well, I shall explain.”

Me: “NOOOO bring me death!”

Van Helsing is so boring. Such a pompous arse. Also I suspect he thinks he is very funny but everyone is just smiling to be polite.

I am all caught up! I adore my tandem reading and looking the footnotes up by Leonard Wolf.

The podcast Re: Dracula titled this day's episode: Baptism of Blood: Van Helsing gives a speech

He monologues a lot this day and I have such trouble following him because he is a bit of a blowhard. 🫪

Mina my love, you are too hard on yourself...

This is why I was convinced Dracula wanted both Harkers. First Jonathan and through him Mina. Both pretty awesome.

How do I keep forgetting that the beginning of Dracula is creepy as hell! Mainly because Jonathan is such an cheerful character.

It is that time of the year! Started a day late but hopefully this year I will keep it up.

I am glad I got the other book of Dracula, annotated by Leonard Wolf.

Without his footnotes I would never noticed some things. The dog for example and where he sat totally went over my head…

I forgot this had already started. I do not have my annotated edition yet so for now this will do.

Ok, the misogyny is becoming a bit unbearable at this point. I don't get how we got from a Mina that went everywhere to Mrs. Harker who is apparently very fragile and can't handle anything.

Even she remarks on this! Ugh the infantilizing of her is annoying.

I like that everyone adores Mina but sjeez... You can very easily guess that this was written by a man. I refuse to believe that women just accepted and liked all of the trauma dumping men did on them.

Husband, good friends and family YES.
Acquaintances you know for a day? NO!

Go to church.