Month: December 2019
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Revival by Stephen King
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Revival by Stephen King (2014) Throughout his life, Jamie Morton has repeatedly encountered the Reverend Charles Jacobs and been drawn into his mysterious experiments with electricity, but toward the end of Jacobs’s life, he coerces Jamie into participating into the ultimate–and…
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Favorite Books of 2010s: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) An aging actor drops dead of a heart attack on stage, an omen for a sweeping flu pandemic that will decimate the world’s population within weeks. Station Eleven does something that I…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (2013) Charlie Manx is a psychic vampire who feeds on the youth and innocence of the children he ferrets away to his imaginary world of Christmasland, but he has an unlikely foe in Vic McQueen, a…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Circle by Dave Eggers
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013) The Circle refers to a fictional company that is quite obviously an amalgam of Google and Facebook. The book is a dystopian view of a near future, a nightmarish outcome of current trends like living…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns (2013) The Burn Palace begins with a maternity nurse discovering that one of the newborns in her care has disappeared and has been replaced by a six-foot corn snake, and it just gets wilder from there.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013) A writer living on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia finds a package washed ashore from Japan containing a diary and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (2013) Ursula Todd is born on a snowy night in 1910 and dies before she can draw her first breath; then she is born again, on that same night, and lives; and again; and again.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
The Devil in Siliver by Victor LaValle (2012) Pepper is committed against his will to a mental hospital after being arrested, because the cops don’t want to bother with the paperwork. There, he discovers that some kind of monster–a man with the head of a bison–is stalking the patients, coming down through the ceiling in the…
Shannon Turlington 