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can you tell that it’s spooky season reading list:

Readingaols readathon book 5 - a second bingo!

Prompt: set in another country

Managed to finish Eynhallow half an our before the end of the month!

In this book we follow Agnes, a mother of four, as her life on the small island of Eynhallow is interrupted when a stranger named Victor Frankenstein moves into a vacant house there.

I ended up really liking it! The first half of the book was a bit slow but it really picked up in the second half. Truely very sad and horrifying and upsetting at points. But a very interesting addition to the Frankenstein mythology.

Recently read - Lure by Tim McGregor a tasty little horror novella about a carnivorous mermaid taking revenge on the village menfolk for their transgressions. Stellar vibes, always fun to root for the monster.

Currently reading - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov I don't know why I decided now was the time to try and get into the russian classics but I regret everything. The Pontius Pilate chapter really drove home that I was raised a heathen pagan and therefore am extremely uneducated in church stuff BUT there is a cat the size of a pig who pays his tram fares so all is not lost just yet

Coming next - The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin I've read a couple of her standalone Sci-fi's and really just enjoy her brain so I'm looking forward to trying her fantasy series next

quickly: a late 1700’s irish housewife has her humble island life disrupted by a strange and inimitable scientist from afar, dr. victor frankenstein: (anatomy as an art / unexpected arrivals and departures / empty graves and ocean caves / heartbreaking decision making  / ghosts are just faded memories / mysteries of midwifery / medical malpractice / overly tall people need love too / ogres, trolls, and monsters on the beach / sad sex with your drunk husband vs. empowering sex with a stranger / secrets in a locked room / stories of abandonment / sea salt and stone / telling your true love goodbye / true grief never dies / waiting on lost lovers by the sea).

Meet the overly tall, overly compassionate Agnes. Her father made her denounce her true love because he was poor. Then her evil stepmother orchestrated her marriage to an old man because ‘no one likes overly tall women’. That is how the young Agnes came to be Mrs. Tulloch, the island housewife of the drunkard idiot Mr. Tulloch, who spends his either time beating and berating Agnes, or trying to spoil her with more children.

Island life is hard. The wind blows cold, so Agnes keeps the hearth fire burning. Meals are often meager, but Agnes keeps the pot full (with four children and an oaf of a husband, mind you). She goes to church on Sunday, and she tends to her pregnant best friend Katie when she has the time. Her skill for keeping houses warm and fed (as well as being the only woman on the island not pregnant or elderly) makes her the prime candidate as a temporary cook for the strange new scientist conducting odd experiments on the island. One bowl of stew leads to another, and soon Mrs. Tulloch is entangled in the dark world of Dr. Frankenstein’s experiments.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Delightful!

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