THE MURDERS HAVE BEGUN in our Frankenstein readalong, and I have to admit that I was not expecting quite such a rapid onset of murder and mayhem. “Rapid” in terms of how much of the book has elapsed so far, not rapid in terms of how much time has elapsed. As I may have mentioned in my last anger-post about horrible Victor Frankenstein and his horrible decision-making process, he legitimately just lets the chips fall where they may w/r/t the ten-foot-tall monster he’s made. Like he makes this monster, the monster gets away, and then two years go by. Chapter…
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So the time has come for Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon, and like last time (or the time before? idk), I was supposed to have plans this day and then the plans got NOT EVEN CANCELED, just rescheduled, which is like, the best of all possible worlds. (The plans were a crawfish boil. I’d have been so sad if it was canceled.) This will be my master post, and I will update it as I go along! Feel free to ignore everything, but your takeaway regardless should be that readathons are the best. In Conclusion Y’all, I’m going to be super real…
Leave a CommentRemember the time I claimed to be a feminist and an SF fan but then I reached an advanced old age without ever reading a super foundational SF text by a nineteenth-century feminist author? WELL THAT TIME IS ONGOING but fortunately my friend Alice has extended the hand of mercy unto me and proposed a co-hosting of a Frankenstein readalong in the month of May. Even more excitinger, there exists a new annotated edition of Frankenstein, published by the good folks at Liveright, and I am here to report that it is amahzing. The annotations (from what I can tell…
1 CommentGuess what time it is! IT IS RIP TIME! The twelfth annual Readers Imbibing Peril began on 1 September (as always) and will be running through the end of October. Join us, comrades, as we read perilously spooooooky books under the auspices of the marvelous Heather and Andi. PS have you noticed that next year it will be R.I.P THIRTEEN? I hope that you have noticed. It is never far from my mind. I am doing a ghost noise about it as we speak. My planned reads for R.I.P. 12 include: The Painted Queen, by Elizabeth Peters and Some Interloper…
10 CommentsUpdate 7/23/17 Okay, look. I have not been posting a ton of blog updates in this readathon because I’ve been yammering on Twitter BUT: I made a book spine poem, and I am so proud of it that I need to share it with you. Look at this business. Here is a transcript of my faboo poem. It is called “music of the ghosts.” You can tell that’s the title because I have helpfully set it off with the opposite side of the book spine. I have done the same for the stanzas. music of the ghosts the dearly departed…
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