It was a year ago today that I embarked on the journey to finish over a dozen books. Mary Shelley’s birthday had just come and gone, making me realize that I didn’t know much about her. I hadn’t read Frankenstein, which I remedied instantly. Neither had I known anything about the teenager who might…
Category: Franken-Dates
A Review of the Reasons Why the Frankenstein’s Monster in the Eponymous Book by Susan Heyboer O’Keefe Will Break Your Heart!
Background He begins his story right from where the original work by Mary Shelley left off. The monster tries to kill himself and fails repeatedly. If the polar cold doesn’t hurt him, I’d say there are few things that could! P.S. Read my review of the original classic here. For more information on Project Frankenstein,…
Roseanne Montillo’s, The Lady & Her Monsters, Takes us Behind the Scenes & Plops us Down Right into Mary Shelley’s Life
Oh, what a sad life Mary Shelley led! The book follows Mary’s life right from the moment of her birth and touches on every source of inspiration that led to the writing of Frankenstein. The story would leave Mary for a while at some points and follow other people who were vital to the writing…
An Account of What Happened on My Two Recent Frankendates and an Update on the status of Project Frankenstein
Frankendate #1 This Frankenmonster hailed from Switzerland, just as Mary Shelley had said he would. He was shy and reticent about the horrors he had seen. Part of the series, The Department 19, by Will Hill, this novella is a “file” from the department. It fills in some gaps from the time Frankenmonster left to…
Victor Is Back, Intent on Deifying Himself by Building a New Race while Humans are Relying on a Monster to Save Them!
Okay, so I am going to divide this review into the types of characters that were in the book: Human Monster When the manicure was complete, he exfoliated the skin of her perfect hands with an aromatic mixture of almond oil, sea salt, and essence of lavender (his own concoction), which he massaged onto…
My Second Franken-Date was with The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein & It was Surprisingly Good for an Anthology!
Words that I Learned: Words that I Loved: Nautch (girls) as in dancing (girls) Attar (of roses) as in perfume (of roses) Words that Stayed with Me: (About Suttee) “Which district officer in the land did not pray that he would never encounter it?” “Manny used to say we loved each other, but how the…
Words that I Learned: Alienist: Alembic: Words that I Already Knew: Menhir was a word that I already knew because of the Malazan Books of the Fallen series. If you like all things epic fantasy, then you should not miss out on this one! Back to the word: “a large upright standing stone ” Words…
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: I have already reviewed the book that started it all! Go here to read my review. A New Life by Ramsey Campbell: The mad Doctor tries to resurrect someone who died recently. There isn’t much of a story but you can see that the author has a way with words….
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is just the First Stopover in Frankentown and What I Thought Of It
A quote that stayed with me: “If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing, of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.” It made me think if it is our relationships and…
Some words that I learned: Some thoughts that formed while reading: The author uses a clever device to keep from providing her readers the recipe to making their own monsters: “But this discovery was so great and overwhelming, that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I…
My first reaction as I started Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was: It is an epistolary novel. Nobody told me that! Wait, when has that ever come up in a conversation anyway? So, the book started off with one of the characters writing letters to his sister while he’s on a sea voyage. The second thing that…
