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šŸ• Pizza or Dracula? Let's read together!

The other day, Iā€™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. ā€˜Is it food time already?ā€™ I mean itā€™s the weekend, and dinner totally not a me responsibility at the weekends. I turn off the podcast Iā€™m listening to and give him my full attention. ā€˜Are we ordering out? That pizza we had last week was amazing!ā€™

One look at his mischievous grin tells me that somethingā€™s up. Heā€™s either already done something to me, or he wants us to be in on it together. Heā€™s positively beaming.

Fight the urge to back away, tucking away memories of my mischievous father, and of my little sisterā€™s trauma inducing ā€˜look what I found!ā€™. Instead, I arch a brow in response to our silent conversation. ā€˜Do, go on.ā€™

My husband claims that my face speaks volumes as I work through each logic step in my mind before responding. Itā€™s not the first time Iā€™ve heard it. Heā€™s still beaming, not at all dissuaded by my caution.

ā€œHave you read Dracula?ā€ he asks.

I often give the impression that Iā€™m well read. To be honest, Iā€™m not sure what being ā€˜well readā€™ 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 Iā€™m trying to ā€˜catch upā€™. Catch-up with what? Iā€™m not sure.

Let me take a minute to remind myself that Iā€™m exactly where I am meant to be.

Okay. Thank you. I needed to take that pressure off my mind.

ā€œI meant to read it,ā€ I tell him honestly. Just like I meant to read Frankenstein and some of the other classics. Iā€™m about half way through an H.P. Lovecraft collection, and Iā€™ve been reading through some of Stephen Kingā€™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 Iā€™ll get an email with the dayā€™s entry.

Itā€™s an interesting immersion technique. Plus, I donā€™t exactly have oodles of time to dedicate to reading. I mean Iā€™d have to give up House Flipper or Harvest Moon. Iā€™m not sure Iā€™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 youā€™re on my newsletter list, I figured this isnā€™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 shouldnā€™t be too far behind, besides thereā€™s a nice archive feature if you need to catch up.

Iā€™m looking forward to talking with you about Dracula Daily experience and the story there-in.