Category: Reading
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Golden Ages of Horror: Reading Elizabeth
About two years ago, I discovered Valancourt Books, which reissues out-of-print horror, generally from the 1970s and early 1980s, in really attractive slim trade paperbacks. My latest read from them was Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall (originally published under the pseudonym Jessica Hamilton). What a disturbing little book about a 14-year-girl who seems to be a complete sociopath…
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Gorgeous Cover Alert! Passing Strange
My first read of 2019 fit the bill: light and easy. Passing Strange by Ellen Klages is a lovely love story with a backdrop of San Francisco in the 1940s. Excellent cast of women characters.
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Recommended Reading: Red Clocks
I am reading a lot of books in the “Angry Women” category this year, which seems appropriate for the year of #metoo. My latest read, Red Clocks by Leni Zumas, takes place in an alternate United States (or in the near future?), when a Personhood Amendment to the Constitution has made abortion and in vitro fertilization illegal. It…
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Reading angry women
“I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger … for most of my life.” – Audre Lord “Once upon a time / I had enough anger in me to crack crystal” – Kiki Petrosino “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair /…
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Reading May 2018: The Power and more
My favorite read this month was The Power by Naomi Alderman, which I gave five stars. It posits what if a power awakens in women, an innate ability to generate electric power, so that they can defend themselves and hurt other people, so that they, in just a few years, become more powerful than men? I found…
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Memoirs in my reading stack…
This year, I’ve been upping the number of memoirs I read, which is surprising to me, because I haven’t been drawn to the genre in the past. But I’ve been having good luck with the ones I’ve chosen lately, and I’ve found each one to be inspiring, in its own way. I would recommend any…
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Reading February-March 2018: Born a Crime and The Reapers Are the Angels
I skipped a month of reading recommendations, mostly because I spent the remainder of this long and lingering winter reading light and pulpy books that were entertaining in the moment but hardly worthy of lasting recommendation. I do have two gems from these two months to pass on to you, however. Continuing my memoir kick,…
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Reading: Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club”
I’m hoping to get back into more or less regular blogging by highlighting some of my favorite reads, both on- and offline. When I was a teen, The Breakfast Club was a favorite among my set of friends. My girlfriends and I had a choice of dreamy bad boy or dreamy jock for crush material–no one thought…
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Reading January 2018: Hunger and Sleeping Beauties
I’m trying something a bit different this year, in hopes of keeping the blog more or less regularly updated: posting my reading recommendations at the end of each month. I will share with you my favorite reads of the month, plus other recommendations (and I’ll keep the ‘meh’ reads to myself). My favorite two reads…
Shannon Turlington 