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I put my novel aside (taking care to keep the title hidden, as there is nothing more irritating than having strangers comment on one's choice of reading material, especially when it happens to be the latest and most sensationalized work of a melodramatic Irish novelist) and stood up to do battle in his stead.

When you make me LOL on page two, we're doing something. And the novel is Dracula

Did someone say vampire hunting Dominicans?

Msgr. Benson alluding to The Scarlet Pimpernel is *chef's kiss*

If you want a thorough dressing down of Martin Luther in about 3 pages, it's in this.

My friend, we must stop to examine that attitude of the Carmelites with which we are both only slightly familiar. So strongly to they believe in man's power to save souls by sharing Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, that they fervently love to suffer and be persecuted.

It is the martyrdom of sixteen Carmelite nuns that inspired The Song at the Scaffold. Nowhere was Rouseau so completely contradicted as in religious life, which essentially involves humble submission to authority and subjection of the natural to the supernatural. The Revolution therefore sought to abolish religious life by "liberating" monks and nuns from their "imprisonment."

I am very much enjoying getting a real life, multifaceted take on the characters.

Well that escalated quickly.

I was not expecting to hit "creepy porn addict" on the bingo card but here we are.

I have a curiosity, which I am sure is going to spring a big part of this mystery so I will leave it unvoiced.

Wow, I'm not even to the juicy bits and this plot is chomping at the bit to get out the gate.