224: Ch 2 — Dracula

ORIGINAL AIRDATE Sept 24, 201123:00 Booktalk begins34:30 Chapter 2All of CraftLit"s Catalogue can be found here: https://bit.ly/craftlit-library-2023Chapter 2 of Dracula! Whoot!(Scroll to the bottom of the page for a player or grab the show on iTunes or via this feed.)Nifty things for you!Defarge videos with lovely music by Mari Ajero via the Podsafe Music Network: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3Longtime listener Barb has a new podcast with her daughter: Two Knit Lit Chicks. Lend an ear, won't you? Forgotten Classics is starting a new book. Katie at Shop Yarn Loveis making me drool.Gwen Steege's new book—you can join "The Knitter's Life List" on Ravelry or the Facebook page, and of course Storey's website has a page for itThe husband's new novel and his lovely review from Kathleen:Andrew Ordover's novel is an entertaining introduction to a fresh new detective. Jordan Greenblatt, a Long Island transplant to Atlanta, has a smart and funny Southern wife, a group of jazz musicians for whom he plays bass, and, oh yeah, a one-man PI firm specializing in routine investigations: philanderers, insurance cheats, and other run-of-the mill cases. He also has some personal baggage that will soon be unpacked. Although he enjoys his self-described "slacker lifestyle," he is a bit bored and when a New York businessman asks him to investigate the three-year old hit and run death of his daughter, a woman whom Jordan knew as a teenager, he takes the case. Jordan's main gift as an investigator seems to be his impulsivity, and with his initial lack of either foresight or self-defense skills he manages to ruffle a lot of local feathers in what eventually becomes a very personal quest for justice. Ordover's gifts as a writer include a terrific ear for dialog, excellent pacing, and a sense of humor that is neither cynical nor snarky. He's given us an intriguing supporting cast as well, and I like his taste in classic jazz. After reading the last page I was delighted to see a teaser for a second book in the series. Although fans of feline detectives may be disappointed, I was charmed that the only four-legged cat in the book is Jordan and Susannah's pet cat, Eliot, who has a walk-on part in one scene and who appears to have absolutely no super-spidey-powers of detectionTo clarify location and peoples in Dracula somewhat:Who ARE these people Harker is going on about?Saxons—Germanic peopleHungarians—also known as Magyars (pronounced mad-jar or mad-yar, from Hungarian: magyarok)Wallachia or Walachia (Romanian: Țara Românească pronounced [ˈt͡sara romɨˈne̯askə] or Valahia pronounced [vaˈlahi.a]; archaic: Țeara Rumânească, Cyrillic: Цѣра Румѫнѣскъ / Цѣра Рȣмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania.SzékelysAtilla the HunThis is what an Aquiline (roman) nose looks like:Here's a calecheCHEEKY REDHEAD's CREEPY PLAYLIST:"Cruel Spell" by Big Bad Voodo Daddy"Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers"Dr Bones" by Cherry Poppin Daddies"Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon"Young Blood" by Norah Jones"Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo"Kiss of Fire" by Louis Armstrong"Bad Things" by Jace Everett"All Souls Night" by Loreena McKennitt"Moon Over Bourbon Street" by Sting"Devil With A Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly" by Mitch Rider & the Detroit Wheels"I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins"In The Midnight Hour" by Wilson Picket"That Old Black Magic" by Keely Smith/Louis PrimaAdd your fave creepy songs to the comments section below! Possible etymologies for nosferatu:A leading alternative etymology is that the term originally came from the Greek "nosophoros" (*νοσοφόρος), meaning disease-bearing.[10] F. W. Murnau's classic film Nosferatu strongly emphasizes this theme of disease, and Murnau's creative direction in the film may have been influenced by this etymology (or vice-versa).[11]...A final possibility is that the form Gerard gave is a well-known Romanian term without the benefit of normalized spelling, or possibly a misinterpretation of the sounds of the word due to Gerard's limited familiarity with the language, or possibly a dialectical variant of the word. Two candidate words that have been put forth are necurat ("unclean", usually associated with the occult) [13][14] and nesuferit ("the insufferable").[5] The nominative masculine definite form of a Romanian noun in the declension to which both words belong takes the ending "-ul" or even the shortened "u", cause in Romanian "l" is usually lost in the process of speaking, so the definite forms necuratu, nesuferitu and "nefârtatu" are commonly encountered (translatable as "the unclean", "the insufferable one", respectively "the devil"). WikipediaWhat I'm reading that isn't about fangs: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Ehren Ziegler over at Chop Bard podcast recommended this and when he says "jump" I say, "what was the name of that book again." I'm not far into it, but it's an interesting read so far. LOVE the spelling! View all my reviews What I'm knitting that isn't for Voyageur Press: Nothing.Book talk begins at 23 min. 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