Author: Shannon Turlington
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Jake Epping, an ordinary high school teacher, discovers a portal to the past and sets out to change history by preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Stephen King’s novel, 11/22/63, is not what you might expect from the master…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010) Jacob de Zoet is a trader with the Dutch East India Company who has come to the trading post Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, in the eighteenth century.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (2011) After learning that her colleague has died of a “fever” in the Amazon jungle, Dr. Marina Singh follows in his footsteps to learn more about the cause of his death and locate the reclusive…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011) Set in a wandering circus in a fantasy of the Victorian era, two master magicians pit their young protégés against each other in deadly competition. This was a simply lovely book, so carefully…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell (2010) It’s hard to believe that someone could come out with a fresh and different take on the zombie apocalypse novel, but Bell has done it here. He seamlessly combines Southern gothic tropes…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Passage by Justin Cronin
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Passage by Justin Cronin (2010) The United States is overrun by vampire-like beings infected by a genetically engineered virus. The vampires in The Passage are monsters, pure and simple — monsters with a tiny glimmer of humanity trapped deep inside.…
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Favorite Time Travel Novels
Today I started reading An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim, which promises to be an engaging time travel story. And like every good geek, I saw Avengers: Endgame this past weekend, which also plays around with time travel. I enjoy time travel stories because their mind-bending possibilities are so abundant, but it’s difficult to write time travel well. The…
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Around the World in Horror Reading List
I haven’t posted in a while, so in an effort to get more regular about that, I’m going to share edited and annotated versions of some of the reading lists I curate on LibraryThing. Making reading lists is one of my fave things to do, next to reading itself. I enjoy books with a strong…
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Reading in February
Time to catch up on recent reads that I can recommend. My first book of February is a brand-new offering from a recent favorite writer of mine, Ben H. Winters. I really admire his niche of combining noir detective stories with speculative scenarios. I’ve read his trilogy set just before a meteor is about to…
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