I was pleased to contribute three of my book reviews to SF Mistressworks, a blog devoted to reviewing science fiction written by women and published during the 20th century.
The reviews:
I appreciate what SF Mistressworks is doing to highlight science fiction written by women, a strong interest of mine. Please check out the rest of the reviews while you’re there.
Please visit BlogCritics to read my latest book review of Andrew Gross’s new thriller, Eyes Wide Open. This one was a negative review, unfortunately.
In brief: I enjoy reading an exciting thriller to liven up a long plane ride or an afternoon by the pool, but even in my vacation reads, I don’t want to put up with lazy writing. There are three key things I ask for in a thriller: a tightly constructed plot, characters I can worry about, and a high level of suspense. Unfortunately, Andrew Gross’ new novel Eyes Wide Open doesn’t deliver on any of those.
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-eyes-wide-open-by1/#ixzz1V7fLx6IU
Young adult science fiction! Here is my Book Review of Across the Universe by Beth Revis at Blogcritics Books.
So I see that the trade paperback of Justin Cronin’s epic, apocalyptic, vampiric thriller The Passage recently hit the stores. Read my rave review on Books Worth Reading.
Here is my latest book review for Blogcritics: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham.
I am now occasionally contributing book reviews to Blogcritics.org. My first review went up yesterday: The Evil Garden by Edward Gorey. Please go check it out.
If you would like me to review your book, please contact me at shannon.turlington AT gmail.com, and we’ll see if we’re a good fit.
My goal this year is to read more science fiction — and I hope it will be literary, thoughtful science fiction at that. Here’s my review of one of my favorite reads thus far: Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
If you’re a fan of Ursula K. Le Guin, you may have missed this beautifully designed paperback reissue of one of her earlier short novels: The Word for World Is Forest. Read my review at my blog Books Worth Reading.
I believe that The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell just came out in trade paperback. Here is my review on my blog Books Worth Reading.
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