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Books are available at the front desk approximately one month before the discussion date.

 

Second Tuesday Book Discussion

 

Tuesday,  November 12 @ 1:00 pm "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

About the Book: 

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With the weather against them, they decided to spend their time writing ghost stories for each other. Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s submission to their contest, later published anonymously in 1818. 

Considered by many to be the first science fiction novel, Victor Frankenstein, a strange but brilliant scientist, discovers a method of imparting life to inanimate matter. The Monster is thus born: a hideous, 8-foot-tall creature of muscle, speed, and intellect. Frankenstein’s rejection of his appalling creation sends it into a spiral of despair, and Frankenstein’s life is never the same.