Talk Wordy To Me discussion

Spooky season is upon us! Do you take part in reading traditional scary/witchy/vampire books for October? Or just whatever you fancy on the day be it any theme?

If you are taking part with reading Frankenstein this months how will you be reading?
-Paper back?
-Hardback?
-Audiobook?
-Kindle?

I can’t find this on my book shelf, and believed I had it! Oh well, an excuse to buy another book...hardback

Well, where do I start with this book....so different from the tv/movie versions. I felt for the creature that Frankenstein created, whom he then left without care or thought and then refused to make creature a partner, I guess this may have made creature more human, and by doing this Frankenstein May have been compelled to accept a being as different but worthy of existence.
Even on Frankenstein’s death he made it entirely about his own suffering.
I would call this book a tragedy rather than a horror, but maybe that’s because Im reading it with COVID eyes, all too aware of our current world, the separation, isolation and loneliness that people face and the need for love, connection, compassion and humanity.
Well done Mary S, it’s a cracker and will remain on my shelf for another read in a few years

Well said, Vanessa!

Vanessa wrote: "Well, where do I start with this book....so different from the tv/movie versions. I felt for the creature that Frankenstein created, whom he then left without care or thought and then refused to ma..."

Yes! I’m already looking forward to the reread, what a delightful surprise. I thought I knew what the story was about, but my goodness it was far from what I expected.
I wonder how differently I’m reading this book too in light of this years events, I wonder if I’ll get something different from it every time I reread it too.

I loved that it questioned far more than simple monsters and death, it asks what makes us human, is it our simple human bodies or our compassion, cruelty and selfishness?