Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 
pickIt's official! Kathryn Harkup is one of my trusted NF authors.
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I'm excited about all the prompts but this has to be my book for this one! 🤣🤣🤣
I am looking forward to this book, but it‘s taking me a while to get around to it. I am a sucker for sciencey books about spooky/paranormal stuff 🤣
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I could listen to Alice and Kim talk about books all day long! This latest a episode all about Mary Shelly is a good introduction to them if you‘ve not listened before!
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pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So I just reread Frankenstein last week and I am so happy that this nonfiction book about the science behind Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein was my No. 9 #bookspin pick! It was so interesting to read about the influences that the Enlightenment had on the writing of the book. And I learned so much about dissection and the human body and lightening! It was a great way to start off my #screamathon reading!
So far this is more a biography of Mary Shelley than anything. The science is there, but mostly in the background; it's more about the formational influences. Not as interesting as Harkup's book on Agatha Christie's poison plots, so far, but there's time!
Read a little slower this month but spent a lot of time with family and friends so I can‘t complain. Managed to finish my last book at 11:50 pm last night so I made my two nonfiction books a month goal! Tagged book was still my overall favorite, I‘m a sucker for science/history nonfiction and the gothic theme really sealed the deal #marchstats
pickSomething of a mixed bag. The biographical sections were oddly weak; tentative and stilted but Harkup hit her stride when the science took the fore. I'm already familiar with the basics of natural philosophy, alchemy and early medicine but more the detailed discussions of transplants, transfusions and electricity were fascinating. The links to Frankenstein were rather tenuous but overall an intriguing and enjoyable read.
May have gone a bit overboard in the #nonfiction section of the bookstore today, but I don‘t regret it one bit! I‘m especially excited for the tagged book, it was pretty much an auto-buy #bookhaul
pickWhether or not you‘ve read or liked Frankenstein, this is an extremely interesting book about Mary Shelley, her life, and the science of her time. I enjoyed the detail Harkup went into and how she was able to make it so informative while keeping it interesting.
I own Harkup‘s other novel (A is for Arsenic) and it will be moving up on my tbr after reading this.
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About 4 hours (37%) into Making The Monster about Mary Shelley‘s writing of Frankenstein and the historical scientific backdrop in which she was writing.
Reading this as an ebook with the Kobo app, it is sobering to see that my average reading session is 8.1 minutes before I otherwise move around, even if it is just to get more coffee.
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I‘m really enjoying this history of Mary Shelley‘s writing of Frankenstein. I‘m still waiting to get deep into the “science behind” the novel, but I‘m betting it‘ll be just as good as the first bit of this book!
I've been in a serious state of book hangover since finishing The Goldfinch! Hopefully this very-anticipated ARC gets me back into the spirit.
Thank you @EmilyChristine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited to get to know my favorite monster even further.
