🍕 Pizza or Dracula? Let's read together!
The other day, I’m playing House Flipper instead of working on some mobile compliance thing for the Awakening website, when my husband taps me on the shoulder.
I glance at the clock. ‘Is it food time already?’ I mean it’s the weekend, and dinner totally not a me responsibility at the weekends. I turn off the podcast I’m listening to and give him my full attention. ‘Are we ordering out? That pizza we had last week was amazing!’
One look at his mischievous grin tells me that something’s up. He’s either already done something to me, or he wants us to be in on it together. He’s positively beaming.
Fight the urge to back away, tucking away memories of my mischievous father, and of my little sister’s trauma inducing ‘look what I found!’. Instead, I arch a brow in response to our silent conversation. ‘Do, go on.’
My husband claims that my face speaks volumes as I work through each logic step in my mind before responding. It’s not the first time I’ve heard it. He’s still beaming, not at all dissuaded by my caution.
“Have you read Dracula?” he asks.
I often give the impression that I’m well read. To be honest, I’m not sure what being ‘well read’ means. Back in high school I used to read two books a week. I wish I dedicated the time to reading as an adult, but I often feel like I’m trying to ‘catch up’. Catch-up with what? I’m not sure.
Let me take a minute to remind myself that I’m exactly where I am meant to be.
Okay. Thank you. I needed to take that pressure off my mind.
“I meant to read it,” I tell him honestly. Just like I meant to read Frankenstein and some of the other classics. I’m about half way through an H.P. Lovecraft collection, and I’ve been reading through some of Stephen King’s older works to get a better sense of horror themes and their tropes. Dracula ranks right up there as necessary reading.
From what I understand Dracula is written in a diary format from the perspective of a Victorian era solicitor. The gimmick is that I’ll get an email with the day’s entry.
It’s an interesting immersion technique. Plus, I don’t exactly have oodles of time to dedicate to reading. I mean I’d have to give up House Flipper or Harvest Moon. I’m not sure I’m ready to hurt myself like that.
I know that your days can be insane, and honestly, we all could use a little less screen time, but I thought why not share this with you, and we can read it together.
The big thing is, signing up is completely free, but it does ask for your email. Since you’re on my newsletter list, I figured this isn’t such a big deal for you.
Over 250,000 readers have signed up already, and the first entry is set for May 3rd (or was it the 5th). I figure if you read this a little late, you shouldn’t be too far behind, besides there’s a nice archive feature if you need to catch up.
I’m looking forward to talking with you about Dracula Daily experience and the story there-in.
A. V. Dalcourt is the author of the growing non-romantic dark fantasy series Awakening and Awakening Fractured Memories.
Using the subtleties of human behavior to craft her demons, rituals, and magic systems, A. V. Dalcourt is a lover of modern sorcery, psychological character portrayals, epic battles between good and evil and the huge grey area that separates them.