After subscribing for the last 3 years, I'm finally actually reading Dracula Daily as it comes out. It's perfectly dosed to read with my late morning breakfast at the fancy historic B & B I'm staying in while visiting family in North Carolina. And it really is very good, and a more fun and easy read than you might assume when you think of literary classics.

It's also entertaining to be reading about J. Harker's first days in the Count's castle while I, too, am staying at a place that's so grand I feel a bit awkward and out of place, with a solicitous host with a peculiar local speech pattern, where I wake to find coffee and food (with gold cutlery, even!) laid out for me by staff I never see, and where I seem to be the only guest because I'm still on Pacific time and get up after everyone else has left.

There's a nice library, too. I don't hear any children of the night, but the late night freight train horns are very atmospheric.