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Tumblr Book Club Master Post
Updated as new projects are announced
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The Classics:
Dracula Daily: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the one that started it all. Began May 3rd 2022, running through November 6th 2022
Edgar Allan Poe Daily: Various Poe stories sent on days there is no Dracula. Began May 13th 2022, runs through at least the end of Dracula
Whale Weekly: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Begins December 2022, runs through 2025
Letters From Watson: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the short stories. Begins January 1st 2023, runs through December 2023
Frankenstein Weekly: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Begins February 1st 2023, runs for several months
The Penny Dreadful: the original Penny Dreadful stories. TBA
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The New:
What Manner of Man: original queer Vampire novel by @stjohnstarling. Begins January 2023
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Henry Tilney’s unabashed love of muslin and Ann Radcliffe, when contrasted with John Thorpe’s dull-headed dismissal of novels and refusal to shut up about his stupid, blinged-out carriage, is this perfect example of how modes of masculinity that depend on rejecting feminine-coded pleasures are sort of doomed to fail on their own terms. You cannot be a tough, self-assured man when you’re too self-conscious to allow yourself the pleasure of a genre containing such winning titles as Necromancer of the Black Forest just because it’s associated with the ladies.
writers envy but evil
do you ever see a banger concept executed a way you dont like and cup its face in your hands and tell it ‘i can fix you’
“June weather. Still, bright, fresh. But my mind is very bare to words—English words—at the moment; they hit me, hard, I watch them bounce and spring. I detest my own volubility. Why be always spouting words? I can write nothing. Also I have almost lost the power of reading.”—Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. April 1927 featured in Selected Diaries
(viawoolfdaily)
