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#turnthepage with @Bookwormjillk
My goal is to finish my current stack for September, and maybe get one or two more read!
1. Assassins Blade ✔️
2. Well Met ✔️
3. Count of Monte Cristo
4. Worth the Try ✔️
5. We Used to Live Here
6. Emma
7. Warrior Goddess Training
These are all in various states of progress 🤣

This is such a small book with such big ideas. The Creature, although driven to perform evil deeds, is not in himself evil, which a lot of adaptations omit (I am looking forward to the new one to see if they change this). A lot of this book discusses the loneliness of existence and how others treat those who are different, which is relatable to many. Truly a masterpiece.

#bookspin #bookspinbingo #hauntedshelf @TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper #trappedinaspookyhouse

Meet Oliver, we adopted him last night from one of our local rescues. He‘s slowly settling in. The name inspiration was not the book but my husband‘s grad school mentor, Dr. Oliver Smithies. While my husband was in grad school Oliver won the Nobel Prize. His mentorship & guidance made my husband the scientist he is today. Oliver had such a huge impact on our lives, so we found a way to honor him.

@barkingmadread is checking for interest in a buddy read of Frankenstein
original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2903653

I read this in high school, and then it was chosen for my book club. That famous first line could have you fooled and hoping for a great adventure. I had no trouble reading it in school because it was past 1984 and hadn't happened. The themes are too on point. I tried to get beyond the 14th page but couldn‘t. Not in this world 41 years later.

I‘m starting this audiobook tonight so I can be primed to start October and #HauntedShelf ! This is one of my all-time favorite books so I look forward to listening to it. My other motivation for listening to it now is so I can contrast it with the Swedish version of Dracula, which is much longer, tagged in the comments below. @BookwormAHN @PuddleJumper #blackcatcrew 🐈‍⬛ 🎃

Ok #hashtagbrigade it‘s time to start talking about Frankenstein! I‘m going to check out the chapters later today, but for now, who wants to join in for a chapter a day? Just remember that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the post until you‘ve read the chapter!! Anyone can join in! Just drop a comment below!

Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice willfully saps the foundation of his country's strength...What have we to do with national prejudices? They are the inveterate diseases of old countries, contracted in rude and ignorant ages, when nations...looked beyond their their own boundaries with distrust and hostility.

(from the sketch English Writers on America)

I just picked up this new edition of Frankenstein at Barnes & Noble last night! Okay, if you are looking to purchase Frankenstein - this is the one to get! Not only does it have a cool cover and gorgeous page edges, but it also has the original introduction from Mary Shelley AND Polidori's and Byron's stories from the night Frankenstein was created! It's really awesome! 💕📚