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Oct. 19th, 2020 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThis month, my library's Classic Book Group read Dracula and I was invited to their (virtual) meeting as the library vampire expert. This makes two meetings of this bookgroup I have attended. The last was in 2009. Both meetings were discussions of Dracula, because I am nothing if not consistent.
It was a super fun discussion that I enjoyed immensely. I was very restrained in my enthusiasm, only made one joke about train timetables, did no excited infodumping, and did not use the word "homoerotic" even once. The topic of "is vampirism oral sex?" was brought up but not by me. I did get to talk about magic blood transfusions, Renfield's weird fascinating religiosity, and the wonderful fact that Dracula calls himself "Count de Ville" at one point, which I had entirely forgotten. It is always wonderful to talk about this book with people who are new to it, and especially with people who are new to horror in general, because they always have some new and interesting thing to say that I have not considered and I love being able to once again see my favorite book with fresh eyes.
Also, I got to reread Dracula on work time and got paid to discuss it tonight, which I would absolutely have done for free.
Good times.
It was a super fun discussion that I enjoyed immensely. I was very restrained in my enthusiasm, only made one joke about train timetables, did no excited infodumping, and did not use the word "homoerotic" even once. The topic of "is vampirism oral sex?" was brought up but not by me. I did get to talk about magic blood transfusions, Renfield's weird fascinating religiosity, and the wonderful fact that Dracula calls himself "Count de Ville" at one point, which I had entirely forgotten. It is always wonderful to talk about this book with people who are new to it, and especially with people who are new to horror in general, because they always have some new and interesting thing to say that I have not considered and I love being able to once again see my favorite book with fresh eyes.
Also, I got to reread Dracula on work time and got paid to discuss it tonight, which I would absolutely have done for free.
Good times.
