It’s a little embarrassing that it took me watching Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein to understand that Mary Shelley is both Victor AND the creature, not just Victor. (It’s not news that I make too much of her alignment with either of them.) πΏ
πΏ Victor Frankenstein has postpartum depression.
Finished reading: Dream A Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips π
If your public library, like mine, is having a delay in ordering new books due to the closure of Baker and Taylor, may I suggest checking out an author’s backlist? Susan Elizabeth Phillips would be a great choice.
Finished reading: The Magpie Lord by Kj Charles π
KJ Charles’s writing is so reliably delightful.
π Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s Remarkable Data Visualizations in Jillian Hess’s newsletter, Noted.
It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.
Finished reading: Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase π
Hey @manton/ @help , I am having this same problem with creating posts in both Strata and Epilogue on Android.
π¬π “…I feel like both her confidante and her baby…” Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall
Finished reading: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas π
So far I’ve liked each book in this series better than the last.
π Read Monster or victim?: The fascination of Hedda Gabler, the ‘female Hamlet’ who divides opinion by Miriam Balanescu (BBC).
Why not both?