Book Reading.......
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disneydream06Book 16 is under the belt.
I read Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.
It was a very interesting take on the whole vampire/monsters story. It mixes both real and fictional characters. Dracula is now the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula, has been shipped off to a Human's concentration camp. His wife plays a small part in the book. Jack the Ripper is a main story line. Only Jack doesn't just kill prostitutes, he kills vampire prostitutes. The main characters are Charles Beauregard, a Victorian era James Bond, and Geneviève Dieudonné, an elder vampire who is older then Dracula and from a more stable bloodline.
It's my understanding this is the first in a series of books that follow these charaters, or some of them anyway, through time. I think the second book is based around the WW I time frame.
Book List 2016:
1. Schooled in Revenge by Jesse Lasky
2. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
3. Kicking and Dreaming by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. A Kingdom Keepers Adventure: The Syndrome:Finders Keepers Losers Sleepers by Ridley Pearson
6. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8. Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen/Jonathan Case/Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof
9. Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
10. Dean and Me(A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan
11. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
12. Detective Strongoak and The Case of the Dead Elf by Terry Newman
13. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
14. The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord
15. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
16. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
I read Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.
It was a very interesting take on the whole vampire/monsters story. It mixes both real and fictional characters. Dracula is now the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula, has been shipped off to a Human's concentration camp. His wife plays a small part in the book. Jack the Ripper is a main story line. Only Jack doesn't just kill prostitutes, he kills vampire prostitutes. The main characters are Charles Beauregard, a Victorian era James Bond, and Geneviève Dieudonné, an elder vampire who is older then Dracula and from a more stable bloodline.
It's my understanding this is the first in a series of books that follow these charaters, or some of them anyway, through time. I think the second book is based around the WW I time frame.
Book List 2016:
1. Schooled in Revenge by Jesse Lasky
2. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
3. Kicking and Dreaming by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. A Kingdom Keepers Adventure: The Syndrome:Finders Keepers Losers Sleepers by Ridley Pearson
6. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8. Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen/Jonathan Case/Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof
9. Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
10. Dean and Me(A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan
11. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
12. Detective Strongoak and The Case of the Dead Elf by Terry Newman
13. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
14. The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord
15. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
16. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
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Date: 2016-04-25 03:39 pm (UTC)I'll probably give it another try later this year & see if I have more success.
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Date: 2016-04-26 03:40 pm (UTC)I also read the sequel written by one of his ancestors. :p