Month: July 2016

• Recommended Reading: Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin

  I had been trying to recommend a new read each month, and I still fell behind on my recommendations. So of course I’m upping my goal to recommending a new read each week! Starting with this one… Does Ursula K. Le Guin write bad books? If so, I haven’t found them. While this collection of…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 29, 2016

  Reading

  Four Ways to Forgiveness, Hainish, Novellas, Recommended Reading, Science fiction, Ursula K Le Guin

• Recommended Reading: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

  This month I am recommending The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. When Harry August dies, he is reborn as himself at the same time and to the same parents, but with the memories of his previous lives intact. When he learns that another person like him is manipulating history for his own selfish ends…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 15, 2016

  Reading

  Claire North, First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Recommended Reading, Slipstream, Time travel

• Recommended Reading: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

  In the introduction to the short story collection Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives that she edited, Sarah Weinman laments that “an entire generation of female crime writers…have faded from view.” Many of these writers, popular and lauded in their day, have been forgotten over time. Weinman has selected stories by fourteen of them, ranging in publication date from…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 1, 2016

  Reading

  Anthologies, Crime, Domestic suspense, Noir, Patricia Highsmith, Recommended Reading, Sarah Weinman, Shirley Jackson, Short stories, Suspense, Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives, Women writers