Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus | 
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! 💕📚
My tbr list for #hauntedshelf #letsgopoints. Ambitious but I still have my other challenges ongoing, Octavia Butler books for #authoramonth and #Samoa books for #foodandlit. I‘m very excited about these books even though I know I won‘t get to them all. Must also include my #whattheDickens books!!
Rereads: Frankenstein, Dracula, books 1-2 of All Souls. I‘d love to finish all these books beyond the trilogy!
Thank you @PuddleJumper for the graphic.
All right #BlackCatCrew here are my Team Leader picks for #HauntedShelf for books: The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley & The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty.
This isn't a buddy read. You can read these or any other Team Leaders book picks for an extra 15pts on top of whatever other points they count for 🐈⬛
pickFirst off, it was interesting that the book was a story within a story and had 3 narrators (Walton, Frankenstein, and the Creature). That was something I wasn‘t expecting but it worked.
The star of the story was the Creature (aka Frankenstein‘s monster). The Creature was the epitome of being othered. He was so misunderstood and just wanted to belong and feel loved.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/review-frankenstein/
panOkay, so they think all of this is most likely cancer instead of a side effect of the radiation she had a year ago. She‘s going to have a radiation treatment tomorrow. In about a week, she could start getting the strength back in her legs, but the neurological symptoms could stay like they are now. The goal is to get her to where she can come back home. It‘s not the best news, but there is some hope. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I have just discovered the joys of the Netflix show Wednesday this week… so now I am reading books that remind me of Wednesday!
#MaryShelley #Frankenstein #audiobook #Wednesday
Restarted this today, but not before a refresher for a few previous chapters (I didn't want to completely restart it)
And the #BookHaul ! My favorite Jane Austen, and the only one of hers I haven‘t read, and, of cruise, another copy of Frankenstein.
None of us are doing great on this first round! #TLT @dabbe
3 I loved
Austen (all)
Frankenstein
North and South 😍
3 I thought had the funnest titles
The Life & Opinions of Tome at Murr
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Life of a good-for-nothing
3 on my TBR
Dangerous Liaisons
House of Seven Gables
Fall of the House of Usher
Play along with this link:
https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1700s
39/100
You are at a huge advantage if you have not read a ton of Terry Pratchett or the UK children's writer Jacqueline Wilson, which I have not.
3 favorites:
Frankenstein
Atonement
The Forsyth Saga .....or Dorian Grey.
@dabbe #TLT
My next Toastmasters speech will be based on one of the many themes on humanity found in my favorite book, #frankenstein
I read a little but more on this list. My top 3:
1. Frankenstein
2. The House on Mango Street
3. Kindred
#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
pickBit late with a spooky read but still did it!
So unlike the popular tropes of Frankenstein and included swathes of nature descption and landscape.
I'd not read it before so feel it was needed.
This past Halloween was our 15th anniversary. Safe to say that man gets me
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mary Shelley was a pioneering badass. It‘s difficult to grasp that she was 18 when penning this boldly and brilliantly written gothic horror tale; also considered one of the very first science fiction novels. Timeless themes along with creative structure and multiple points of view evoke an unexpected compassion. This was my fourth reading.
He sprang from the cabin window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #HalloweenRead #Horror #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Gothic #Fantasy #School #Literature #Audiobook 🎃🎃
Dan Steven‘s is reading Frankenstein to me as I crochet some witchy ghosties for a few swaps.
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
#audiocrocheting
This is my first time reading Frankenstein and I am loving it. It's so well written and suspenseful that I've already read a third of it in one sitting. I plan to curl up and finish the rest before I do anything else today. 💚
I love building Metal Earth models, and every year, the official retailer, Innovatoys, does a photo competition for Halloween. This year, I decided to sacrifice my windmill model to recreate the climax of Frankenstein. I used strips of muslin coated with bacon grease to make the fins flammable. I think it came out pretty good.
Current read.
#AboutABook #ClassicYouRead
Finally read Frankenstein last year and loved it!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
so-so(informal review because this was for ib and it was painful): dude, please stop fainting and control your superiority complex
pick#ReadAway2024 This is the book I chose for April‘s #TBRTarot prompt, “Choose a book which has become a TV show or movie.” My favorite adaptation of Frankenstein is a miniseries from the 1970s called “Frankenstein: The True Story.” Frankenstein is widely acknowledged as the first science fiction book. I‘m not sure what I expected but this was a pleasant surprise. Mary Shelley‘s writing is lovely. Victor, the so-called hero, wanted to (cont)⬇️
#ItTakesAllKinds
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#TitleWith?or!
Volume I, 1st edition. 💚
#NewYearNewBooks #ScienceGoneWrong I discovered that the New York Public Library has a rare copy of the 1818 first edition of Frankenstein published in 3 volumes!
#NewYearNewBooks
#FogCover
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The famous book with the famous cover of a famous painting: THE WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG by Casper David Friedrich (1818).
Highly recommend the audio narrated by Dan Stevens. So glad I finally read this classic.
#12DaysofChristmas #October
@Andrew65
My favorite part of conventions is finding cosplayers and have them pose with the book they match. 🥰
#MC3 #Studio42Books
pickRe-read this for my Frankenstein and Climate Change class. I HATE the class but love this book. Definitely my favorite classic, i would recommend it to everyone it‘s so easy to fly through and enjoy
Tagged was my favorite October read. I cannot pick a favorite between In Memoriam and The View on the Way Down. Needs to percolate a little longer.
#2023ReadingBracket
I love this reminder of the fantastic books I‘ve read through the year.
Now I want noodles shaped like Frankenstein.
https://www.tor.com/2023/10/30/mary-shelley-and-the-noodle-that-created-science-...
Frankenstein tells the story of gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein who succeeds in giving life to a being of his own creation. However, this is not the perfect specimen he imagines that it will be, but rather a hideous creature who is rejected by Victor and mankind in general.
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #book #books #epicreads #bookend #bookends #Classics #Horror #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Gothic #Fantasy #School #Literature #Novels #Halloween 🧟
1) Tagged. Audio book read by Dan Stevens was fantastic.
2) Packing for vacation. We don‘t get trick or treaters 😞
Tagging everyone! Happy Halloween!
@TheSpineView
panWas Frankenstein the first Emo? Or Walton? The monster? Sappy and melodramatic, Shelley‘s story may have been unsettling and a one-of-kind 200 years ago. But for readers today, I found it to be a depressing bore. Leave this one off your Spooky Season reading lists.
panIt‘s no secret that Frankenstein is more of a study on the horrors of humanity than anything else, but I still wish it had focused more on the creation of the monster. The tension just wasn‘t there. Essentially, he said I built a monster. Then the next sentence was I lost the monster. I just didn‘t feel connected to the plot. It did like the monsters monologue but at that point I had already checked out and lost interest.
Starting off today‘s #scarathlonsprint by letting Phoebe Reads a Mystery read me Frankenstein! I‘m working from home while not feeling too well so a slow reread of a text I know really well is great to have in the background.
#scarathlon #skeletoncrew
Fear, Fearless — close enough?
Photo challenge prompt 22: “fear/scare.”
#hhc #halloweenhexescoven #scarathlon
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Tonight‘s classic horror viewing. 1931 Frankenstein
#Scarathlon Movie TBR #HHC
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