{"id":2625,"date":"2013-09-05T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2013-09-05T04:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:23:21","slug":"the-return-of-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/the-return-of-frankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I just wrote about Frankenstein, but there&#8217;s always more to share, and I just wanted to quickly share this with you. August 30 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2013\/08\/30\/happy-frankenstein-day\/\">Frankenstein Day<\/a>, the birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. In honor of the day, Diane Colson over at The Hub has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/2013\/08\/30\/happy-frankenstein-day\/\">suggested reading<\/a>. <em>This Dark Endeavor<\/em>, the first book she lists(reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/slashersya.htm#This_Dark_Endeavor_by_Kenneth_Oppel_\">here<\/a>&#8212; \u00a0its sequel, <em>Such Wicked Intent<\/em>, is reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/slashersya.htm#With_Wicked_Intent_by_Kenneth_Oppell\">here <\/a>as well)\u00a0is scary as hell, and <em>Angelmonster<\/em> (reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/slashersya.htm#Angelmonster_by_Veronica_Bennett\">here<\/a>), which she also lists, is a truly amazing book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what I would call YA-accessible, unless the young adult in question is absolutely devoted to knowing the backstory of the original novel, but since Colson listed several other books I don&#8217;t know if I would consider targeted to YA readers, I will suggest that those who are really interested in the players who were there the night Shelley came up with the story also check out <em>The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And a happy (belated) Frankenstein Day to you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I just wrote about Frankenstein, but there&#8217;s always more to share, and I just wanted to quickly share this with you. August 30 was Frankenstein Day, the birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. In honor of the day, Diane Colson over at The Hub has some suggested reading. This Dark Endeavor, the first book<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/the-return-of-frankenstein\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,8,600,1622,83,1301,328,1520,11,1294,467,1621,1089,1277,1088,41,273],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angelmonster","tag-collection-development","tag-frankenstein","tag-frankenstein-day","tag-horror-fiction","tag-kenneth-oppel","tag-mary-shelley","tag-nonfiction","tag-readers-advisory","tag-such-wicked-intent","tag-teen-nonfiction","tag-the-hub","tag-the-monsters-mary-shelley-and-the-curse-of-frankenstein","tag-this-dark-endeavor","tag-veronica-bennett","tag-ya-fiction","tag-yalsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}