I'm a little more than halfway through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, and this week I got to a part where the narrator described the month of May 1812 in Yorkshire: The early part of that May, as we have seen, was fine, the middle was wet; but in the last week, at change of moon,… Continue reading Symmetry
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Vampire stories in the woods
I have been taking long walks as often as possible, because I am addicted to the audiobook of Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by J Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published 26 years before Dracula. And it's not just because the protagonist is named Laura, okay? 18-year-old Laura is whipped into a frenzy by a friendship with… Continue reading Vampire stories in the woods