2013 Year of the Book Series3

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Everything I was able to fit on one page I did, and what was not aloud ahem.. The actual reviews and notes I posted to my blog. the links to each Quest are noted on the lone Reading Quest Hub noted above

Started= August 9

pages= 200+ (have to check again)

Finish= August 17

Banked= -2

apparently I have sadly slowed down on my reading, I guess I've got a bit of burn out.

Joy has 3 brothers, her older bro Matt died as a POW and she decides to meet the man to retrieved him. From there she decides to take Matt's place but she's in the navy WEALs program. (Women seals). ON her mission somerthing happens and she wakes up with vikings.... Talk about culture shock Oh yeah and Joy is a feminist and a psychologist so what will they do with her way back in the 900's!

Real Vampires Have Curves

So our character 'GLory' (to her friends) a vampire is moving from Vegas to Austin Texas and wants to open a vintage store. The Name "Vintage Vamp Emporium' yes supoed to be blending in, but here 'Vamp' means that of a siren or beautiful woman. Like the 'Vamps' of the Swinggin 20's

Started= August 20

pages= 300+

Finish= August 26

Banked= 1

Quotes:

*"Let me show you to my coffin' -Damien

*"If you weren't a freak prehstoric vampire, you'd probably kill to taste my triple mocha latte"-Diana

Real Vampires Don't Wear size six

Started= August 30

pages= 327

Finish= Sept 4

Banked= 1

Quotes:

Dracula the Un-Dead written by Bram Stoker's Great Grandnephew Dacre with noted Dracula expert and historian Ian holt brings us a true sequel. ' Un-Dead' takes place 25 years after Dracula is killed in his castle. Jonathan & Mina now have a son, Quincey who is in law school but wants to persdue acting and their relationship is (if not already) falling apart.

Our other characters like Dr. Seward is a morphine addict, Lucy's Finace Arthur Holmwood is basically a broken man who wishes to be with his dear Lucy, and can not get the visions of the horrid night out of his head.

Dracula homepage & research center

Started= October 1st -20th (Dracula Day! & Bela Lugosi's Birthday)

Dracula Day

Banked= -10

Facts

Around the time the book was to be or was released I had heard (& suppose this could just be a rumor but it was too long ago for me to remember right as I only did catch it in passing) Bram Stoker was planning his own sequel and had some notes already written down.

Dacre worked off notes left by Bram from his original book like his characters and research. Oh how I would love to just see one page (any page) of those notes written so long ago. My wish of that comes true, though not in person but in the last few pages of the book, to my surprise I found the notes. there's 3-4 pages, characters as well as information on the vampire are two of those).

The ending in the published version of Dracula is NOT the original. The version with the original ended was sold at auction at Christie's and supposed to end with a big explosion and the castle faling into lava (hope I didn't mix that up)

Dracula WAS originally supposed to be titled UN-Dead but whoever at least minute changed it to Dracula.

One name i came to be surprised to see in the book was Radu Florescu, seeing the name I thought isn't that Dracula's (the real one's) brother and in fact yes this Radu, a professor is Dracula's actually decendent! His research was the inspiration of Coppola's opening scene of his Dracula film.

Read the book (or even just the afterward & Author notes for more little known facts )

also see the other suggested lenses as there's a review for Bram's lost journals.