Category: Reading
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Recommended Reading: Station Eleven
This month, I’m highly recommending the post-apocalyptic novel, Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. Station Eleven does something that I hadn’t thought was possible: it offers something new and exciting in the post-apocalyptic genre. I have read a lot of post-apocalyptic books, and I was getting burned out on them. It seemed like there was nothing…
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Favorite Reads of 2014
I was going to do a whole “year in reading” post, but I got sucked into other things and now I find the year has already turned over. Happy new year! Here are my favorite reads of last year. Many are relatively new, some are classics, all are worth your time. The Sundial by Shirley…
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Recommended Reading: Revival by Stephen King
Recommended reading for this week is Revival, Stephen King’s latest novel (and the second he’s published this year). Now I’m a King fan from way back. I think this is the best book he’s turned out in a long time, maybe even since the early days. If you are looking for gore and scares, you won’t find…
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Review of The Martian by Andy Weir…
The Martian by Andy Weir A stranded astronaut must survive for over a year and a half on Mars while awaiting rescue. While I found this to be an entertaining read, I cannot heap on it the accolades others are giving it. This book is quite flat, all plot with very little character, theme or even…
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Reading women in 2015…
Did you know that #readingwomen2014 was a thing on Twitter? I did not know it until a short time ago, but with the end of the year coming up, I don’t think we should stop reading women. Why should we make an effort to read more women writers? If you were not aware, there is a…
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Recommended Reading: The Bone Clocks
Today I am recommending The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Mitchell’s latest novel is a genre-bending epic spanning sixty years, about the people whose fates are altered by an ongoing war between immortals. This one is going to make a lot of “Best of 2014” lists. The book grew on me a lot after I was done reading it. I…
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Cli-Fi: Fiction about climate change
I have just discovered a new genre: cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Set in the present or near future, these novels imagine a changed world once the effects of climate change are really beginning to be felt. It’s not such a new genre to me, after all. I read David Brin’s Earth and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Forty Signs…
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Recommended reading: Ancillary Justice
Today, I’m recommending Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. If you like space opera, political intrigue, or complex plots that turn assumptions upside down, I think you’ll like this book. And I believe the sequel, Ancillary Sword, is newly out–no waiting!
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Halloween picks: The Scariest books
I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big…
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Recommended reading: Americanah
An occasional feature where I recommend newish books you might like to read. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “You can’t write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it’ll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of…
Shannon Turlington 