bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
Hi, everyone! [personal profile] cornerofmadness commented on my "Finished Frankenstein" post with a link to a really cool concept album by Valentine Wolfe based on the work of Mary Shelley (with Frankenstein being heavily featured as inspiration).

Here's the link to their official YouTube playlist for the album, and here's the link to their website where you can play the full album for free! I've also included a video embed below to my favorite track, "Victor's Confession".


Thanks again to [personal profile] cornerofmadness for letting me know about this awesome album!




bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
So I know I said I was going to split up my previous post in two, but I ended up finishing the book—might as well combine the two posts I was planning to make! I cut down on the quotes this time because I think the previous entry was hard to read with all the bolding and notes. (I tried, at least.)

 

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I had a lot of fun analyzing this and putting together little mini-essays. Hope you had some fun reading them. The next book’s commentary will be less English major-y. I’m still deciding on what to read… If all else fails, I’ll read Watership Down.

bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
Hello again, friends and neighbors. I’m in the home stretch now! I found the entire book available online, legally and for free, on Project Gutenberg so I don’t have to type out every quote. Yay!

It did make me go a little quote crazy though.

 

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I’m going to break up this post into two because this one is really huge. See you then!

bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
There’s a lot to unpack here. (Oh, how I hate the word “unpack.”)

Let’s dive in!

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bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)

Oh, it’s getting good. Well, uh, better, that is to say. The book's been consistently good.

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bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
Hello again, friends and neighbors! I am just speeding through Frankenstein. According to GoodReads, I’m a quarter of the way through already! I really respond to these kinds of stories, I guess.

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Wow, this was a long entry. Fun fact! I wrote this all in a Word document instead of directly in the editor for the first time. I kind of like it, kind of don’t, but it does keep me from getting into mischief while at work… sort of. ;) I’m hoping to post my Snowflake Challenge #15 today, but I should be quiet for some of the weekend while I repair Lyra. Long story short, the stuff that kept her eyes in turned to goo somehow and when I removed it, I took out her eyelashes and part of her face paint by accident! I can at the very least give her new eyelashes (which is something I’ve been meaning to practice anyways), but there’s not much I can do about the face paint. C’est la vie (one of my favorite phrases that I’ve just learned to spell). I might put another outfit together too to practice collars—depends on how frustrated I get with putting on lashes. I’d also like to post pictures of these eyes that a friend sent me to test out but that might not get posted until sometime next week.

Have a great weekend, and stay safe out there!

bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
Frankenstein is going a lot easier than I thought it would be. Maybe my reading skills are improving!

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bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
I've decided to do a deeper dive into Frankenstein than I've done with my recent posts. Expect the English major hat! I've also started annotating my copy for the first time in... years... a decade? I was always told to do it but never did in high school. It's actually quite helpful. Teenage Bunny, you strike again!

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bunnyboo: A portrait of Mary Shelley (shelley)
I've decided that my next book will be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus! It was a book I was supposed to read in college and I, uh, didn't. I'm going in somewhat blind here - only knowing the basic story beats and having never watched a film adaptation other than bits and pieces of Young Frankenstein. My copy includes a foreward by Walter James Miller (which I'll be reading last) and an afterword by Harold Bloom... if that means anything to you.

In any case, I'm looking forward to it!

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