A Book Club Reader Discusses Her Experience with Dracula, Ulysses, Middlemarch & Blood Meridian (Patreon)

Today we're having a chat with a book club member and behind-the-scenes assistant about her experience with Dracula, Frankenstein, Middlemarch, Ulysses, and Blood Meridian.

You may remember her from our discussion on Shakespeare (here), and we're checking in again to talk about deep reading great literature and play a game to test her knowledge of Joyce. 

Topic Timestamps:

• 0:00 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• 1:30 George Eliot vs Bram Stoker
• 5:40 do we find Dracula scary?
• 8:45 Dracula vs Frankenstein
• 10:20 what is great literature?
• 11:30 adapting to challenging books
• 12:30 yearning for difficult pleasures
• 12:56 George Eliot’s Middlemarch
• 15:20 Austen, Eliot & humour
• 16:03 James Joyce’s Ulysses
• 18:49 ‘Ulysses or Modern Poetry?’
• 26:14 Blood Meridian & The Passenger
• 30:00 the Secret Dickens

Let us know - what is your experience with the books we're reading together?

If you played along with the game, how many did you get right?

Happy reading, everybody!