Tome Thursday: Tre Volte No

Hello everyone!

I have something slightly different for you today.

After taking it up a notch with my Tuesday blog post, I'm going in and keeping it extra real with this one tonight, because every once in a while I reach for a book that's slightly different from anything else I've read.

It also usually covers some sort of war aspect, too.

I've done a couple of these on the blog since I started, but I do feel like I should maybe do a few more as well, given that this is a topic that should never be forgotten, ever.

And one of the best ways to do it is if you know specific authors who write magnificent books about it.

Boris Pahor, one of my fellow countrymen, is one of them.

God bless him for his long, fruitful life. He has a collection of books mostly dealing with World War II era in the Trieste region, and I've read a number of them already.

Tre Volte No is just another in a long, long line.

Dracula (Booktober)

"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!"

 

There is no Booktober without the one and only. Count Dracula waltzed into the world when Bram Stoker's novel got published, and basically began the vampire "obsession" although he's not nearly as romantic as all the new-age vamps running around! Hunted by Van Helsing and presented in countless iterations for our eyes to feast on, this book is a must if you want to spook yourselves a little bit. I know I did - I made the mistake of reading it after dark.

Let's just say I slept with the light on that night.

Side-note: a really good friend of mine told me if tonight's vampire was Edward Cullen she'd be put out. Well, it's definitely not Eddie!

Few readers will ever forget the nightmare atmosphere of Count Dracula's sinister castle in Transylvania, the prowlings of the Un-Dead, the blood-curdling tension . The story recounts the struggle of a group of men and a woman - Dr Seward, Dr Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker with his wife Mina - to destroy the vampire, whose sinister earth-filled coffins are discovered by Harker in a ruined chapel adjoining Dr Seward's asylum. Cruel and noble, evilly and fatally desirable to women, Dracula possesses a terrifying lust for power and, like Dr Jekyll or Conan Doyle's Moriarty, is one of the immortal fictional monsters.

(from book jacket)

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*image not mine

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