🔖📚 Read Artist Jane Benson Has Some Strong Ideas About Frankenstein by Grace Edquist (Vogue).
♥️ On my most recent read of Frankenstein, I found Shelley herself in both scientist and creature. It felt like a book about being the daughter of a dead mother and the mother of dead children.
📚🗨️ “Humans ubiquitously suck. I know I was one at some point, but I like to think I’ve grown since then.” Taylor Grothe, Lethal Kiss
📚🗨️ “What’s life without the pursuit of knowledge? When you have a nearly limitless lifespan, after a while the only thing to do with yourself is learn… I want to read everything. All of it… When my body finally gasps its last, I want to be a verifiable library in kinda-human form.” Taylor Grothe, Lethal Kiss
📚🗨️📝 “if your business is words, a notebook can be at once your medium — and your mirror.” Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Finished reading: We ride upon sticks by Quan Barry 📚
Finished reading: Dead Beat (Ninth House Series, 3) by Leigh Bardugo 📚
I love this whole trilogy so much. I love how Leigh Bardugo always manages to leave me with a sense of hope, even in a series where there is so much active evil in the world.
📚🗨️ “That was the gift of coming from nothing. You learned to work with what you had.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat
The movies loved cold-eyed assassins and flinty lone wolves. But the world needed people who wept and fought on, saps and suckers and fools who had their hearts broken but kept loving anyway, women who knew how to work magic with nothing but water and flour, a little salt, and a will that could grind iron to dust.
Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat 📚🗨️
📚🗨️ “There was something embarrassing about dying as a sophomore. It just lacked dignity.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat
