Hardcover or paperback? Dog-eared pages or bookmarks? Current read? Favorite read of all time? Let’s chat books with this silly 2023 mid-year reading tag!
Last summer, after I heard Jane Austen’s Persuasion was being adapted on Netflix. I RAN to the library to read it that week before I got cranberry-vodka intoxicated with my husband and watched the silly film adaptation. I have ZERO complaints! It made me smile. It was humorous & funny & creative. In fact, I think the experience kickstarted the major reading adventure I’ve started this year.
A common canonical rule in horror, or if you’re incredibly spiritual & superstitious, is that a monster must be invited in to cause any real damage to you. In classic literature and occult media, vampires must be invited to cross the threshold of a home and demons must be given permission to enter an object or take possession of body. In much the same way, Victor invited his monster into existence by creating him in the first place. And this is first and foremost how horror begins to befall our rather dim-witted main characters.