{"id":4548,"date":"2018-01-25T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:42:31","slug":"marys-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4548","title":{"rendered":"Mary’s Monster<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“… I am no longer a girl \/ weary with disappointment.
I have become rock \/ and wind and fiery sea.”
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I talked here<\/a><\/strong> with author-illustrator Lita Judge<\/a><\/strong> about her newest book, Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created<\/em> Frankenstein (Roaring Brook, January 2018). <\/p>\n

I’m following up today with art from the book. (Please note: I’m quoting from a galley of the book. It’s possible some of the text has changed in final publication.)<\/p>\n

Until tomorrow. …<\/p>\n


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“… I can’t stop the creeping sense \/ that no matter how much I love Shelley,
someday we will all be drowned \/ in his pain.”
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“Shelley’s words \/ echo over and over in my thoughts. …”
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“I try to block this dreadful image from my mind,
but I know I can’t escape it. …”
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“… Grief would swallow me
if it weren’t for the story \/ still growing in my mind.”
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“I keep writing \/ until my pen scratches pain \/ as loud as screams.
But it is no longer my own voice I hear. \/ It is the Creature’s. …”
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“… Your child grows safe and warm, \/ listening to her mother’s pulse,
while you make my chest beat \/ with a dead man’s heart.”
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MARY’S MONSTER; LOVE, MADNESS, AND HOW MARY SHELLEY CREATED FRANKENSTEIN. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Lita Judge. Published by Roaring Brook Press, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Lita Judge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“… I am no longer a girl \/ weary with disappointment.I have become rock \/ and wind and fiery sea.”(Click image to enlarge and read poem in its entirety)   Last week at Kirkus, I talked here with author-illustrator Lita Judge about her newest book, Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}