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FLESH by David Szalay – Book Review: We Need to Talk About István
THE MILDEST OF SPOILERS! “There’s something terrible about the way normality asserts itself. About the way that summer insists on happening. About the way the chestnuts blossom and Wimbledon takes place.” I have to admit Flesh wasn’t on my radar at all until it was shortlisted and later won The Booker Prize (i.e. The Oscars…
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Review: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – ‘All is not as it seems’
Fun-Fact: Did you know the word Scientist didn’t exist when Frankenstein was first published in 1818. Before the word was coined in 1833 by William Whewell, Scientists would have been referred to as Natural Philosophers, who were studiers of nature and the physical universe. Gothic literature isn’t my go-to genre but it caught my attention…
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