Month: December 2019
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Strange Weather by Joe Hill
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill (2017) I agree with what Hill writes in his afterword about short novels: I am drawn to them more and more, especially in the horror genre, as they seem to be just the…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (2017) A fable disguised as a dystopia, set in a ruined City on an unnamed Earth, where Rachel scavenges for supplies to give her lover, Wick, who makes biotech to sell to other survivors. The City is…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Ill Will by Dan Chaon
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Ill Will by Dan Chaon (2017) My first impressions of this book were not great. It seemed like a hot mess, to be honest. Jumping around in time and in point of view, from third person to first, and sometimes even…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (2017) If you are of a certain age, you likely remember the video store as a regular stop on the errands run. And if you grew up in a small American town, you may remember the…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (2016) Sixteen-year-old Devon is an elite gymnast with a shot at the Olympics, and everyone and everything in her life revolves around that goal. When someone she knows is killed by a hit-and-run driver,…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (2016) I highly enjoyed and appreciated this gripping book on three levels. First, it presents a fascinating what-if scenario. In this alternate America, instead of having a civil war, the states came to a compromise…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015) Eileen is a most unpleasant character, a twenty-four-year-old girl working as a secretary in a juvenile delinquent facility for boys, enabling her verbally abusive father’s alcoholism, doing everything she can to make herself disappear. This is…
Shannon Turlington 