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A Taste for Monsters | 
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pickA strong YA story that combines a radium girl, the Elephant Man and Jack the Ripper. A young girl with phosphorus jaw is tasked with caring for Joseph Merrick, but their relationship is strained when the ghosts of the Ripper's victims start to haunt them. Good historical fiction with a killer ending!
pickThis is a great spooky Victorian YA! I liked the incorporation of The Elephant Man. This story has him, Jack the Ripper, and multiple ghosts, so something for everyone!
Finished up my May #Bookspin with this cracking yarn. It wasn‘t a good reading month - too busy - but I managed to eke out my #Bookspin #Doublespin and a couple of #BookspinBingo lines. On to June! 🌞
pickAnother book finished for #screamathon 👻 @4thhouseontheleft
Historic fiction mixed with a bit of mystery and a closer look at human nature in regards to people who are different.
Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the streets and poor Evelyn finds herself dealing with the ghosts of his victims while also caring for the Elephant Man.
It was a bit slow at first, but it does pick up. Great spooky read. 👻
so-soI wondered part-way through if there had been people who really thought they could live without eating, and in fact, there were. I might have rated it higher, but the story was pretty slow-going. For the last third of the book or so, I thought it picked up quite a bit, but decided that I‘d keep my rating at “ok”, which is where it fell for me for most of the book. I guess I shouldn‘t have been surprised at the crazy religious people.
Liking the book so far. It‘s a historical YA (I think) I found in my library. A young girl with her own deformities is assigned to be a personal maid to the Elephant Man during the murders of Jack the Ripper. Along the way she begins to see the Elephant Man as more than just a monster.
It‘s been snowing all day and now I‘m gonna have homemade chili and try reading a new book
I love it when my school library gets read and starts putting up displays. All of these look like books I want to read, but that last one “A Taste For Monsters” is screaming to me.
I'm reading A Taste for Monsters and in it the characters start reading Northanger Abbey. Now I'm conflicted, because I want to pause on this book and go read Miss Austen's novel! I both love it and hate it when a book mentions other books. I get book reader jealous! Does this happen to anyone else?
pickEvelyn Fallow is a young woman whose parents died young. She found work at a matchstick company, but a tragic accident leaves her disfigured. Unsure if she will ever be accepted, she tries to find a way off the streets. She gains employment as a maid for John Merrick, aka The Elephant Man. However, there is violence afoot in the streets of London and soon the pair are haunted by something more sinister than they could ever imagine.
Plan on finishing this book today and hanging with my #oldladies . #purrinstereo #PennyLane #Nimbus #catsoflitsy
"I don't know what the future holds for me. All I know is what's right now."
"I want to know what happens when we die."
Dr. Treves chortled. "Associate we all, I should think. Mortality is our collective obsession."
Another top 10 for 2016. This was nothing like I expected, much to my delight. A disfigured woman gets a job in the safety of the hospital during the time of Jack the Ripper. Her charge, The Elephant Man, is greeted by the ghosts of the victims, weakening and saddening him. To protect John, she must help them all find peace. How far is she willing to go? Loved this one, it was a bit spooky but more sweet. That was unexpected.
"I thought I could guess what he was thinking then about his own attractiveness, but he said nothing more and I let go of the matter, for I knew very well there was a degree of ugliness against which no amount of kindness or virtue could balance the scale."
Almost done with it, better than I expected.
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pickWhat a wonderful story. A young disfigured girl escapes a life on the streets to become a maid for Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man and they inadvertently become entangled in the crimes of Jack the Ripper. The bond and friendship they form is touching. It was different and interesting and very enjoyable.
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pickI love this book! It looked at the Ripper killings in a really unique way. Evelyn, disfigured from her time working in a match factory, lands a job as maid to "The Elephant Man". Outside the safe haven of the hospital, a murderer is on the loose and the souls of the departed are coming to them for help. It IS suspenseful and sometimes gruesome; but also sweet and charming. I loved how this book came together.
“Dreadful business, to be sure,” Beatrice said. “There be a demon at work in Whitechapel, and mark me, the police won‘t do nothing about it.”
...'before my mother died I spent many evenings with my cheek against her knee as she read aloud to me. I understood little of it, of course, and I believe my mother knew that, but she read the books to me nevertheless, perhaps believing the words would simply soak into me as milk and honey soak into bread.'
I glanced at the synopsis and saw "Victorian London" and "Jack the Ripper," and I thought, "Great!" But this story is so much more than that. Evelyn has been gravely disfigured by phosphorous necrosis, so she takes a job as a maid to The Elephant Man. Their plight and uncertain friendship is fascinating, and the world the author creates is thoroughly engrossing.
100 pages in, I already know it's going on my list of 2016 favorites. Out 9/27/16.
