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22 Aug 2018, 11:26 pm

"sunny", Jason Reynolds

13 year old. Boy on track team wants to quit and take dance lessons



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23 Aug 2018, 1:51 am

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"sunny", Jason Reynolds

13 year old. Boy on track team wants to quit and take dance lessons

cool.



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23 Aug 2018, 2:21 am

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Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Are you the person here who likes buying different editions of the same few novels? I have the Norton Critical Edition of this (the slim one--later I saw a thicker one). I love the essays and painting used for the cover. The novel, of course, is brilliant. My own little notes are written all over mine.



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23 Aug 2018, 10:35 am

Yes! That's me! I have a shameful number of editions of Brontëana including their novels and biographies. I only have one copy of Frankenstein and this is my first time reading it. I'm reading the original 1818 edition. I love reading the academic essays and notes as well. Kortie recommended that I read a biography of Mary Shelley's life and that was fascinating too! I used to write in my books in Uni so those ones are full of marginalia but I don't write in them any more. Mine are full of sticky tabs with notes exposed.

(PS I like Norton Critical. I have several of their publications as well :) )


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23 Aug 2018, 4:16 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
Yes! That's me! I have a shameful number of editions of Brontëana including their novels and biographies. I only have one copy of Frankenstein and this is my first time reading it. I'm reading the original 1818 edition. I love reading the academic essays and notes as well. Kortie recommended that I read a biography of Mary Shelley's life and that was fascinating too! I used to write in my books in Uni so those ones are full of marginalia but I don't write in them any more. Mine are full of sticky tabs with notes exposed.

(PS I like Norton Critical. I have several of their publications as well :) )


You must have an amazing collection. What is the Mary Shelley biography called?

Yeah, Norton Critical is fantastic. I love their editions of the Old and New Testaments, among many others.



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24 Aug 2018, 2:15 pm

I'm still trying to finish On The Road.


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24 Aug 2018, 3:44 pm

HighLlama wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Yes! That's me! I have a shameful number of editions of Brontëana including their novels and biographies. I only have one copy of Frankenstein and this is my first time reading it. I'm reading the original 1818 edition. I love reading the academic essays and notes as well. Kortie recommended that I read a biography of Mary Shelley's life and that was fascinating too! I used to write in my books in Uni so those ones are full of marginalia but I don't write in them any more. Mine are full of sticky tabs with notes exposed.

(PS I like Norton Critical. I have several of their publications as well :) )


You must have an amazing collection. What is the Mary Shelley biography called?

Yeah, Norton Critical is fantastic. I love their editions of the Old and New Testaments, among many others.


The Shelley bio was called Daughter of Earth and Water (Noel Gerson). Fascinating info, although nothing was cited so I found the style a bit odd. I'm going to invest in Mary's private journal publications as well.


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24 Aug 2018, 4:05 pm

Gerson, to me, wrote sort of a straightforward biography of Shelley. He is, obviously, a great fan of Shelley; not such a great fan of her father, William Godwin.

It was easy to read, and pretty good for an introduction to Shelley. But as a serious work of scholarship, there's leaves much to be desired. I am not sure if that was Gerson's intention, actually.

I am now in the process of reading "Frankenstein."



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24 Aug 2018, 4:08 pm

Hey, me too!


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IsabellaLinton wrote:
HighLlama wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Yes! That's me! I have a shameful number of editions of Brontëana including their novels and biographies. I only have one copy of Frankenstein and this is my first time reading it. I'm reading the original 1818 edition. I love reading the academic essays and notes as well. Kortie recommended that I read a biography of Mary Shelley's life and that was fascinating too! I used to write in my books in Uni so those ones are full of marginalia but I don't write in them any more. Mine are full of sticky tabs with notes exposed.

(PS I like Norton Critical. I have several of their publications as well :) )


You must have an amazing collection. What is the Mary Shelley biography called?

Yeah, Norton Critical is fantastic. I love their editions of the Old and New Testaments, among many others.


The Shelley bio was called Daughter of Earth and Water (Noel Gerson). Fascinating info, although nothing was cited so I found the style a bit odd. I'm going to invest in Mary's private journal publications as well.


Thanks!



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28 Aug 2018, 7:25 pm

Extreme Horror, by Matt Shaw.

A psychopath who has been a lifelong horror movie fan is making his own movie about his acts of murder and mutilation. He even tells one of his early victims that he will be remembered forever, now.
Author Matt Shaw wrote a warning at the beginning of the book to warn away the lily livered.


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28 Aug 2018, 7:34 pm

Freud - Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Lovecraft - Tales (Library of America)



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29 Aug 2018, 1:08 am

Madeleine Roux: asylum


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Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits by John Gribbin


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01 Sep 2018, 2:51 pm

Mrs. Dalloway. But, then, I'm usually reading Mrs. Dalloway. It's the book I read in between reading other books. Virginia Woolf is a long-standing special interest of mine.



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01 Sep 2018, 5:50 pm

"The dead and the gone" - again

I dislike the protagonist every bit as much as I did the first time around.


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