About a third of the way through, emails started going to my Promotions tab in gmail and I started missing sections unless I deliberately searched for them. This included the final entries, so I'm marking this as finished on 12/28 rather than 11/7 when the final one actually posted.

I'd never read Dracula before (nor seen any adaptations besides Castlevania, come to think of it), and it was novel to do so in this format, which is a fun way to consider epistolary novels! It also makes me wonder if the original jumps by POV, rather than time. There'll be disjointedness either way, but with the newsletter it's like one giant readalong with the internet. I'll happily be doing it again in 2023.

Between reading [b:Frankenstein|35031085|Frankenstein The 1818 Text|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1631088473l/35031085._SY75_.jpg|4836639] for Biere Library's Storytime Book Club (if you're local to Corvallis, come hang out with us Thursday evenings!) and this, it's fascinating to see many classic monster tropes codified in these original texts, but they also surprised me with how much of the canon is added to or dropped (like with The Creature's articulate and inquisitive nature in Frankenstein, or Quincy's cowboyishness, unless that actually IS included in adaptations and I just never saw it)

Also, those boys wouldn't have been able to do ANYTHING without Mina's work, as far as I'm concerned. ( )

Reading Dracula as it happened via email was a fun way to experience the novel. It really drew out the suspense and gave time to ruminate on the plot. September 29 to October 5 is a chonky week though, so be prepared for all of that action when it comes. ( )