Day in the Life of an Idiot

I just finished reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (audiobook) and have since fallen into the Frankenstein fandom, at least a little bit. My most favorite thing that I've discovered is an AITA post from Elizabeth, Victor Frankenstein's betrothed, which is nearly canonical (in Frankenstein she does write him a letter wondering if he is love with someone else and notes that his affection towards her has always seemed like a brother to a sister.) 

Frankenstein occupied a lot of my mental real estate for several days in a way that few books do. Not, I don't think, because it was Just That Good, but because there is so much we think we know about Victor Frankenstein and his creature. The book "explodes" a lot of that, much of which I posted about earlier when I was still in the throes of listening to the audiobook, but much of which I keep returning to.

Interestingly, Frankenstein gets a shout out in the book I'm listening to now, The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel. The blurb for the book describes it as "a hardboiled baseball scout must solve the murder of his brother in a world transformed by body modifications."  Why did I pick this book, you might ask? So, lately, when I am looking for the next thing, I just ask Libby to call up all the available audiobooks that have been tagged cyberpunk. Out of all the ones it found for me, I started this one yesterday because I noticed two people are waiting for it. I figured I'd better finish listening to it so I can get it off to them.

If you're curious, the other ones on my list are: The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford, and The God Game by Danny Toby.  If you've read any of these I'd love to know which I should pick next. I usually take out way more books that I can reasonably get through in the borrowing time because I inevitably can't stand a reader or just can't get into the book and it's nice to have another one to jump right into.

I had wanted to tell you about the game I ran this last weekend, but as it's time to head off to my writers' hour, I will have to save that for tomorrow!