Isn't that just...Dracula?

Dracula wasn't originally fully chronological, and the Dracula Daily book will be. And they're throwing in memes, reviews, social media stuff, and so on. So, yeah, it's mostly Dracula, but it's a bit different. I'm on the fence about buying it, since I think I saw most of that stuff when it was happening. Doesn't mean it's not worth revisiting, but is it worth ~$27 to revisit? That's the question, for me.

I thought that what I really liked was the real-time nature of Dracula Daily - getting the email on the day the action happens. And I *do* really like that and am looking forward to getting it again this year. But I guess I am more attached to other aspects of it as well. The book will at least partially be a souvenir of this journey we all take together, I guess, and also I can at least have the potential to have it lie open on a lectern turned to the beginning of the day's reading during Dracula season. That just tickles me.

I am also signed up for Dracula Daily this year! I didn't do it last year, but saw some of the memes. My Tumblr usage really fell off till I noped out of Twitter and now I keep Tumblr, Dreamwidth, and Mastodon open (I am this username everywhere... Except Reddit. For Reasons)

I did it last year but I think my email started filtering them out at some point because I only got the first few.

I was having problems with the emails getting cut off so I wouldn't get the full day's story and wouldn't realize until the next day when it was apparent I had missed something. Substack seems more reliable.

Gmail put them in promotions a couple of times. I kept dragging them back to the main inbox until gmail got the hint.

BTW I am about halfway through Doomsday Book and it is as good as I remember. I might like it even better as an audiobook - I was definitely not pronouncing those 14th century names correctly in my head, and hearing Middle English or Latin or whatever makes a different impression on my brain than reading words I can’t understand with my eyes. But it can be hard to remember that the pandemic the characters mention and the Oxford quarantine are not our pandemic. When Finch says they are running out of toilet paper, or someone mentions that Americans won’t stand to be told where they can and can’t go and that’s why so many of them die, or the nurses run out of face masks I have to pause for a bit

Oh wow t, that’s an interesting reminder, I don’t think I’ve re-read that in the past few years.

I don’t think I’ve read it this century. I definitely forgot a lot.

Yeah, there are some moments in that book that are frighteningly on the nose for having been written several years in advance!