Hey, everybody! I'm really excited to launch the official DRACULA reading group!
What it is: We're Reading DRACULA! (I will be using the Oxford University Press Classic edition)
When it starts: May 23, 2010
Why we're doing it: Because DRACULA is a classic GIRL GOTHIC novel, and partly inspired my June 8 adult GIRL GOTHIC adult novel, INSATIABLE. (Also because it's a really good book!)
What you will get if you participate: Prizes (see below) and also the satisfaction of having read a great work of classic fiction.
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I'm sure you've all heard of DRACULA. You've probably seen him on TV or in the movies. He was one of the many (but not the first!) rich, sexy vampires who've captured the imagination (and hearts) of the reading public throughout history.
But did you know that DRACULA is possibly one of the most famous romance novels of all time (well, GOTHIC romance novels).
That's right: DRACULA is considered a romance!
Who even knew there were girls in it? Not me. (Well, girls who didn't just get bitten and die.)
I didn't believe it either until my friend Jen read it and was like, "You've got to read it! It's told in a series of letters, and most of them are from the point of view of this girl, Mina Harker, and she's really cool!"
It's true. Told in epistolary format, DRACULA (written by a man who was a little-known theatre manager slash pulp fiction author named Abraham (Bram) Stoker, way back in 1897), is basically a collection of letters written back and forth between Jonathan Harker and his wife, Mina, about the strange goings-on when Count Dracula, a wealthy Romanian, decides to buy an estate in England. Their friends begin to die! It's weird and creepy! But, really, what do you think of my new bonnet?
Stoker’s protagonist, Mina Harker, was the first feminist of vampire fiction. Mina was what Stoker called a “New Woman” which meant, basically, that she was a working woman (Mina was a schoolmistress who could type. NO ONE could type back then).
This was an unusual and brave choice for the author of a book written with a Victorian audience in mind. Mina was talented and ambitious . . . and a writer! Much of Stoker’s tale is told through Mina’s letters and journal entries (also another girl's, Lucy. Poor Lucy).
But Mina doesn’t just write about vampires: she battles them! Along with her husband, Mina joins Abraham Van Helsing and his team to destroy Dracula, risking her own life in the process. Mina is a Victorian Buffy!
Thanks to Bram Stoker, there’ve been thousands of books, comic books, graphic novels, plays, television shows, and movies about vampires (but let's not forget little Miss Mary Godwin, who, on the same night in 1816 a certain Lord Byron was cooking up the very first tale of a sexy rich vampire who only drinks virgin blood, thought up the plot for the horror novel of all horror novels, FRANKENSTEIN).
But DRACULA was the one who partly inspired my new book INSATIABLE.
So in anticipation of INSATIABLE, we're going to start reading DRACULA! I, of course, shall read along with you. Reading commences MAY 23!
There will be prizes for all participants! They shall receive INSATIABLE bookmarks and postcards. The vampiest shall also receive official Dracul temporary tattoos!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/4618030844_276d77e28d.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4618030834_e6d5986fcc_o.jpg
And the grandest prize of all, a $50 gift certificate to the Insatiable page at Cafe Press, will go to whomever contributes MOST meaningfully to the discussion!
The reading group will be moderated by Ann (aka admin_ann). She will breakup the book into sections and start threads for each part. If you have any general comments or questions about the reading group, you can reply to this post.
Are you ready? Are you brave enough?
I think you are!
So get your copy of DRACULA (available in paperback in any library or bookstore anywhere) and get ready to READ!
Love,
Meg
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 02:06 PM
I am DEFINITELY participating. This is going to be fabulous! I've read Dracula before, but none of my friends read it with me, so I couldn't discuss it with anybody. Now I have a reason to re-read it, AND I can discuss it with people! Plus, anything related to Meg Cabot gets extra fabulous points.
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Posted 20 May 2010 - 07:28 AM
MegCabot, on 18 May 2010 - 12:55 AM, said:
Hey, everybody! I'm really excited to launch the official DRACULA reading group!
What it is: We're Reading DRACULA! (I will be using the Oxford University Press Classic edition)
When it starts: May 23, 2010
Why we're doing it: Because DRACULA is a classic GIRL GOTHIC novel, and partly inspired my June 8 adult GIRL GOTHIC adult novel, INSATIABLE. (Also because it's a really good book!)
What you will get if you participate: Prizes (see below) and also the satisfaction of having read a great work of classic fiction.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/4618030844_276d77e28d.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4618030834_e6d5986fcc_o.jpg
I'm sure you've all heard of DRACULA. You've probably seen him on TV or in the movies. He was one of the many (but not the first!) rich, sexy vampires who've captured the imagination (and hearts) of the reading public throughout history.
But did you know that DRACULA is possibly one of the most famous romance novels of all time (well, GOTHIC romance novels).
That's right: DRACULA is considered a romance!
Who even knew there were girls in it? Not me. (Well, girls who didn't just get bitten and die.)
I didn't believe it either until my friend Jen read it and was like, "You've got to read it! It's told in a series of letters, and most of them are from the point of view of this girl, Mina Harker, and she's really cool!"
It's true. Told in epistolary format, DRACULA (written by a man who was a little-known theatre manager slash pulp fiction author named Abraham (Bram) Stoker, way back in 1897), is basically a collection of letters written back and forth between Jonathan Harker and his wife, Mina, about the strange goings-on when Count Dracula, a wealthy Romanian, decides to buy an estate in England. Their friends begin to die! It's weird and creepy! But, really, what do you think of my new bonnet?
Stoker’s protagonist, Mina Harker, was the first feminist of vampire fiction. Mina was what Stoker called a “New Woman” which meant, basically, that she was a working woman (Mina was a schoolmistress who could type. NO ONE could type back then).
This was an unusual and brave choice for the author of a book written with a Victorian audience in mind. Mina was talented and ambitious . . . and a writer! Much of Stoker’s tale is told through Mina’s letters and journal entries (also another girl's, Lucy. Poor Lucy).
But Mina doesn’t just write about vampires: she battles them! Along with her husband, Mina joins Abraham Van Helsing and his team to destroy Dracula, risking her own life in the process. Mina is a Victorian Buffy!
Thanks to Bram Stoker, there’ve been thousands of books, comic books, graphic novels, plays, television shows, and movies about vampires (but let's not forget little Miss Mary Godwin, who, on the same night in 1816 a certain Lord Byron was cooking up the very first tale of a sexy rich vampire who only drinks virgin blood, thought up the plot for the horror novel of all horror novels, FRANKENSTEIN).
But DRACULA was the one who partly inspired my new book INSATIABLE.
So in anticipation of INSATIABLE, we're going to start reading DRACULA! I, of course, shall read along with you. Reading commences MAY 23!
There will be prizes for all participants! They shall receive INSATIABLE bookmarks and postcards. The vampiest shall also receive official Dracul temporary tattoos!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/4618030844_276d77e28d.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4618030834_e6d5986fcc_o.jpg
And the grandest prize of all, a $50 gift certificate to the Insatiable page at Cafe Press, will go to whomever contributes MOST meaningfully to the discussion!
The reading group will be moderated by Ann (aka admin_ann). She will breakup the book into sections and start threads for each part. If you have any general comments or questions about the reading group, you can reply to this post.
Are you ready? Are you brave enough?
I think you are!
So get your copy of DRACULA (available in paperback in any library or bookstore anywhere) and get ready to READ!
Love,
Meg
What it is: We're Reading DRACULA! (I will be using the Oxford University Press Classic edition)
When it starts: May 23, 2010
Why we're doing it: Because DRACULA is a classic GIRL GOTHIC novel, and partly inspired my June 8 adult GIRL GOTHIC adult novel, INSATIABLE. (Also because it's a really good book!)
What you will get if you participate: Prizes (see below) and also the satisfaction of having read a great work of classic fiction.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/4618030844_276d77e28d.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4618030834_e6d5986fcc_o.jpg
I'm sure you've all heard of DRACULA. You've probably seen him on TV or in the movies. He was one of the many (but not the first!) rich, sexy vampires who've captured the imagination (and hearts) of the reading public throughout history.
But did you know that DRACULA is possibly one of the most famous romance novels of all time (well, GOTHIC romance novels).
That's right: DRACULA is considered a romance!
Who even knew there were girls in it? Not me. (Well, girls who didn't just get bitten and die.)
I didn't believe it either until my friend Jen read it and was like, "You've got to read it! It's told in a series of letters, and most of them are from the point of view of this girl, Mina Harker, and she's really cool!"
It's true. Told in epistolary format, DRACULA (written by a man who was a little-known theatre manager slash pulp fiction author named Abraham (Bram) Stoker, way back in 1897), is basically a collection of letters written back and forth between Jonathan Harker and his wife, Mina, about the strange goings-on when Count Dracula, a wealthy Romanian, decides to buy an estate in England. Their friends begin to die! It's weird and creepy! But, really, what do you think of my new bonnet?
Stoker’s protagonist, Mina Harker, was the first feminist of vampire fiction. Mina was what Stoker called a “New Woman” which meant, basically, that she was a working woman (Mina was a schoolmistress who could type. NO ONE could type back then).
This was an unusual and brave choice for the author of a book written with a Victorian audience in mind. Mina was talented and ambitious . . . and a writer! Much of Stoker’s tale is told through Mina’s letters and journal entries (also another girl's, Lucy. Poor Lucy).
But Mina doesn’t just write about vampires: she battles them! Along with her husband, Mina joins Abraham Van Helsing and his team to destroy Dracula, risking her own life in the process. Mina is a Victorian Buffy!
Thanks to Bram Stoker, there’ve been thousands of books, comic books, graphic novels, plays, television shows, and movies about vampires (but let's not forget little Miss Mary Godwin, who, on the same night in 1816 a certain Lord Byron was cooking up the very first tale of a sexy rich vampire who only drinks virgin blood, thought up the plot for the horror novel of all horror novels, FRANKENSTEIN).
But DRACULA was the one who partly inspired my new book INSATIABLE.
So in anticipation of INSATIABLE, we're going to start reading DRACULA! I, of course, shall read along with you. Reading commences MAY 23!
There will be prizes for all participants! They shall receive INSATIABLE bookmarks and postcards. The vampiest shall also receive official Dracul temporary tattoos!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/4618030844_276d77e28d.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4618030834_e6d5986fcc_o.jpg
And the grandest prize of all, a $50 gift certificate to the Insatiable page at Cafe Press, will go to whomever contributes MOST meaningfully to the discussion!
The reading group will be moderated by Ann (aka admin_ann). She will breakup the book into sections and start threads for each part. If you have any general comments or questions about the reading group, you can reply to this post.
Are you ready? Are you brave enough?
I think you are!
So get your copy of DRACULA (available in paperback in any library or bookstore anywhere) and get ready to READ!
Love,
Meg
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