Though familiar with the foundational novel, lore and later adaptations, one forgets that Frankenstein’s Monster was not a mindless brute with no internal life or ambitions, it’s easy to forget that unlike in many 
film versions, the Creature is portrayed by Shelley as sensitive and contemplative, literate and even eloquent, and so we appreciated this reading list of Bildungsroman that the Creature stumbles across and finds particularly resonant, informing the search for humanity through the humanities with a brief but indelible curriculum. The books discovered in a satchel that introduced our monster to literature were Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Strum und Drang epistolary work The Sorrows of Young Werther, John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Plutarch’s parallel biographies—which when written on the spine I always read as Plutarch LIVES!, as in the experiments of Dr Frankenstein. More from Public Domain Review at the link up top.
one year ago: Take My Breath Away (1986), The Cher Variety Hour, assorted links to revisit plus an orchestra recreates Berlin’s soundscape
two years ago: the Tree of Tรฉnรฉrรฉ, the history of Sanctuary Cities plus more links to enjoy
three years ago: a false-friend, more minimalist movie posters, hyper-realistic art, the first internet murder plus an audio recording of a sadly extinct, unique dialect
four years ago: more links worth the revisit
five years ago: Trump’s Attorney General resigns, Leipzig by street car, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, attempts to suppress the Church Committee on intelligence abuses plus the Beer Hall Coup (1938)
