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Sleuths who know the whole village,
quiet lives that turn on one choice,
the slow way a routine takes hold.

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  • Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

  • Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

  • Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

  • Convenience Store Woman

    Sayaka Murata

  • Crying in H Mart

    Michelle Zauner

A line is enough

Write it down mid-chapter and go back to reading.
It’ll keep.

Wait, he reads Milton?

Nobody warned me the monster would be the best talker in the book.

He learns to speak by listening through a cottage wall, and he argues better than Victor ever does.

What if Victor had just stayed in the room?

The last word is yours

A line here, a line there, and then the whole book.
Write what you made of it, with your notes on hand.

The one who ran

I came for a horror story and got a book about responsibility. Victor makes a man, runs from him the moment he opens his eyes, and spends the rest of the novel calling him a monster.

What stayed with me

The creature’s chapters are the heart of it. He teaches himself to read, finds Paradise Lost, and asks Victor for the one thing no one will give him: a companion.

The book doesn’t excuse what he does, but it makes it hard to say where the cruelty started. My note from the middle still stands: so much turns on Victor running out of that room.

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and the last one

What you picked, what you noticed, what you made of it,
kept book by book in a library of your own.

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