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3/17/2026 Do you prefer single narrator, duet/dual narration, full cast, or "graphic audio" audiobooks?

This is sort of a tough one too. It all depends! Single narrator can be awesome, sometimes a dual is really fun, especially if the book is written in his and hers pov. I have also done full cast and suddenly there are people everywhere and that is fun too. Graphic might actually be my least fav, all those sounds!

In the end I am used to single narrators and a great narrator can shine through out an entire book :)

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4/7/2026 Do you like spoilers? Do you read the last chapter first? Share your thoughts.

4/14/2026 What do you still love doing that you loved as a kid?

4/21/2026 How do you like to celebrate your birthday?

4/28/2026 What is your favorite sports team?

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Carole´s Monday Movie: Dracula

Title: Dracula - A Love Tale

Length: 2h 9m

Released: 2025 (2026 US)

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Rating: R
Where I Got It: Apple TV

SUMMARY:

When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the loss of his wife he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death, guided by a single hope - to be reunited with his lost love.

Trailer

REVIEW:

I saw this trailer a while back, and I have been waiting and waiting for it to arrive in the US. When it finally did, I dragged Hubby to the couch to make him watch this with me. I looove a good Dracula film!

Here we have Dracula, who was a prince in the 15th-century. He killed and did many bad things in the name of God. The only thing he asked for was protection for his wife. Well...she was murdered and died in his arms, so he turned his back on God, which in turn God gave him an eternal curse. Condemned to never die and to drink blood for survival. He hopes his beloved will be reincarnated since she was of a pure soul. 400 years later...he has found her and no one will stop him from reclaiming his love. 

What a lovely cast. What a lovely story. I really, really enjoyed it. The guy who played Dracula was amazing. 

This rendition certainly played up the love story and made this more of a romance. Still some horror elements, but certainly more romantic. 

That last scene literally broke me. SOO good. SOO perfect.

No issues for me. Hubby said he liked it, but he thought it had some weird elements. I disagree. I liked the change-ups. 

We have the romance and the horror. We also were given splashes of comedy that made me smile. 

I'll give this 5 stars. I want to watch it again!

The Accidental Dating Experiment by Lauren Blakely

By: Lauren Blakely

Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Jacob Morgan

Series: How to Date, Book 4

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Audible Originals

Contemporary romance/from audible

Maybe I should have started something else, but I sort of just continued listened, but I was not really feeling it.

Monroe and Juliet has a podcast. She also goes on bad dates. Then they inherit a house and he becomes her dating coach. Oh and they had a fling years ago.

Things heat up, but he has some issues that I never really got. She really liked him and tiny bit of drama ensues.

It was good at times, and at times I felt like I would not miss much if I fell asleep for 30 minutes. Lol, ok that sounds bad.

Eight years ago I fell into a secret summer fling with the bright, big-hearted Juliet before our lives went in different directions.

Now, I’m the grumpy to her sunshine on a popular dating podcast we host, and when a wealthy fan gives us a charming coastal cottage as the biggest thank you ever, we head to the town where I grew up to give it a makeover.

And find the house has only one bed. Located under a mirrored ceiling.

To make matters even harder, the woman I’ve been pining for tells me she wants to try to find the one and would I please be her dating coach for the week?

Like hell I’ll let her date other men. I’ll coach her on three dates with me.  But the second I take her out, I don’t feel like her teacher. I feel like she’s mine, especially when the first night ends with us tangled up together in that bed.

Each night we grow closer, but this dating experiment forces me to face my greatest fear – whether a man like me is worthy of her love.

Even though I’m already head over heels for her.

What moves the dead by T.Kingfisher

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Published: October 18, 2022 by Titan Books

Horror/Historical

Own

I saw that some said it was chilling horror and gory, while some said it was soft horror, and yeah I am more on that soft horror thing. Nothing gruesome happens. It is more a slow build up and sensing something is wrong. Nothing gory, but something that is creepy at the end.

Easton is called by an old friend who seems to be dying and living in a moldy mansion. Her brother looks pretty bad too. Something weird is going on with hares on the property and some old lady is looking at fungi in this made up European country in the 1890s.

But I enjoyed it. It was short, and I wanted to know what it was. I was also watching Stargate SG1 at the same time and they had this episode that was similar ;)

Soft horror.

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.