I'm a little behind in my reading and really need to step up the pace. But so far, I'm enjoying this story, which has plenty of surprisingly explicit gore. Surprising to me, because I didn't expect it from a YA novel. However, I'm finding the writing style to be a little over the top. A little florid:

A month shy of her sixteenth birthday when consumed by the indifferent indignity of death's cold embrace, in the first gentle flush of her budding womanhood, only to be pulled in to a far less indifferent embrace for a consummation more foul than even the ultimate effrontery of death.

I'm not an expert grammarian, but does this seem like the world's longest incomplete sentence?

Note: I didn't have time to wade through all the book club buddy reads discussion, because BASEBALL, so I'm a little unclear as to whether I should be posting my updates here or as a blog post in the usual way, so I'm going to just post in both places until I hear otherwise.

I know I fixate on stupid things sometimes, but my start on this (so far entertaining) book was derailed by the question: Would this country "doctor" have rubber boots and gloves in his laboratory in the year 1888? 

According to the internets, the rubber boots were being manufactured as early as the 1850's, and the first surgical rubber gloves were created in 1889-1890. So... it may be a bit of a stretch, but I can buy it. 

Back to reading...

Jessica (HDB) invited me to buddy-read The Monstrumologist, so this will be my first Halloween Bingo 2016 bound book. I'm hoping to start reading it during my lunch break today. I borrowed it from my public library last weekend, so I've got to hurry through it and return it before the Library Police come after me.