Tag: Burn Palace

• 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…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 1, 2015

  Reading

  13 Clocks, Allie Brosh, Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie, Ann Patchett, Big Sleep, Burn Palace, Charlotte’s Web, China Mountain Zhang, Cold Comfort Farm, David Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Hyperbole and a Half, In the Woods, James and the Giant Peach, Maureen F McHugh, Michael Farris Smith, Raymond Chandler, Reading, Revival, Rivers, Shirley Jackson, State of Wonder, Stella Gibbons, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen King, Tana French, The Bone Clocks, The Sundial

• Accidentally reading about reptiles…

  I realized with the first two reads of the year, I have an accidental theme going on: reptiles in my fiction! With Swamplandia! it was alligators; then there is a snake in The Burn Palace: A Novel. Our upcoming book club read is set in Texas, so I wonder if a lizard will figure into the plot.…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 20, 2014

  Reading

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alligators, Burn Palace, Crocodiles, Dark Tower, Dinosaurs, Everything’s Eventual, Fictional reptiles, Horns, IT, Jungle Book, Jurassic Park, Just So Stories, Little Friend, Lonesome Dove, Lost World, No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Poisonwood Bible, Reading, Reptiles, Small Gods, Snakes, Swamplandia!, Turtles