Tag: Annihilation

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Annihilation: Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (2014) An expedition of four unnamed female scientists ventures into the mysterious Area X, and bad things happen. I used to be a superfan of the TV show Lost until…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 23, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Horror, Jeff VanderMeer, Slipstream, Southern Reach trilogy

• Popular Books Read and Unread in 2015

  I like to track my reading in multiple ways, for which I use the various OCD tracking tools on LibraryThing. One way is to track what I read during the year as compared to what others were reading during the same period (here’s the list). It interests me to see what trends emerge. Here are…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 5, 2016

  Reading

  Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie, Annihilation, Best of 2015, Book of Strange New Things, Dept. of Speculation, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeff VanderMeer, Jenny Offill, Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Men Explain Things to Me, Michel Faber, Popular books, Reading, Rebecca Solnit, Station Eleven

• Top Five Reads of the Year

  Here are my five favorite reads of the year, a nice mix of old classics and new discoveries. Please post your favorite reads of the year in the comments. (These are books read during the past year and enjoyed, but not necessarily published in 2015.) Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (my essay on a kinder, gentler…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 30, 2015

  Reading

  A Tale for the Time Being, Age of Innocence, Annihilation, Best of 2015, Edith Wharton, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeff VanderMeer, Ruth Ozeki, Station Eleven, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Top 5, Zora Neale Hurston

• Recommended Reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

  Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is everything I liked about Lost, but much better executed. An expedition of four unnamed female scientists ventures into the mysterious Area X, and bad things happen. Area X, like the island in Lost, is a weird, unsettling, indefinable place where disquieting things happen that cannot be explained. Those who venture into it are irrevocably…

  Shannon Turlington

  June 12, 2015

  Reading

  Annihilation, Horror, Jeff VanderMeer, Lost