Dracula - Half Way Through!

I think it might have been a bad idea to read this book during the spookiest holiday of the year. I've been having nightmares every night and am now just reading this book in the daylight. Therefore this read is taking me a little longer than anticipated, however not due to lack of interest on my behalf.

I found that the beginning of this book quite confusing only because of the numerous names and whereabouts of places that Jonathon Harker travelled to and from.

There are many sayings that are used (ei. to know her is to love her) that I thought were more modern than this book from the 1800s.

I love the way that this book is written, through journal entries and letters. I've never read any book that has done this before so I am finding it really interesting.

Reticent: inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech

Idolatrous:  of or relating to idolatry: the worship of a physical object as a god

Salient: moving by leaps or springs

Prodigious:

1: being an omen :  b : resembling or befitting a prodigy

2: exciting amazement or wonder

3: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree

Languidly:

1: drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion

2: sluggish in character or disposition

3: lacking force or quickness of movement

Eminence: a position of prominence or superiority

Better get back to reading before it gets too late! Right now I'm so sad that Lucy died but my gut is telling me that she is simply in a vampire state and is going to wake up and start tormenting the people of England.