“Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein” is a dual-timeline reimagining of Mary Shelley’s life. In the first timeline, we follow Mary and her friends (including the notorious Lord Byon) at Lake Geneva in 1816, during the “year without summer.” In the second timeline, we follow a younger Mary, aged fourteen in 1812, during her visit to the Baxter family in Dundee, Scotland.
Book Review: The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
“The Winter Vault” is an expansive book of love, displacement, and grief, written in Anne Michaels’s distinctive poetic style. It is a dual-timeline historical novel, following a young grieving couple and their time spent in Canada (during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway) and Egypt (during the building of the Aswam dam.)
Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
“Revolutionary Road” is the quintessential American novel, depicting the pitfalls of the American dream, outlining a young suburban couple’s vibrant expectations and their eventual crushed dreams through the lens of marital degradation.
Book Review: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
If you love music, rock & roll, and LA in the 70’s “Daisy Jones & The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the perfect book for you!
Book Review: Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
“Henry IV, Part 1” by William Shakespeare is an exciting historical fiction play recounting the reign of England’s Henry IV.
