Tag: Dystopia
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins (2015) In the near future, drought has rendered the Southwestern United States nearly uninhabitable. A mountain-high sea dune called the Amargosa has spread over large portions of the Mojave Desert in southern California.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (2014) A Christian preacher travels to another planet, Oasis, to minister to the alien natives and finds himself becoming more distant from his wife, left behind on Earth where society seems to…
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Favorite Books of 2010s: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) An aging actor drops dead of a heart attack on stage, an omen for a sweeping flu pandemic that will decimate the world’s population within weeks. Station Eleven does something that I…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Circle by Dave Eggers
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013) The Circle refers to a fictional company that is quite obviously an amalgam of Google and Facebook. The book is a dystopian view of a near future, a nightmarish outcome of current trends like living…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2011 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2011. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (2011) The notorious hired killers, the Sisters brothers, set out on one last job to track down and kill a gold miner and…
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Recommended Reading: Borne
A fable disguised as a dystopia, Borne by Jeff VanderMeer is set in a ruined City on an unnamed Earth, where Rachel scavenges for supplies to give her lover, Wick, who makes biotech to sell to other survivors. The City is ruled by a gigantic bear, Mord, a bio-engineered relic of the once-powerful Company, and a woman known…
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Inspirations…
The Women’s March was truly inspiring. I took part in my own small way. Our small North Carolina town had 1,500 people turn out. I was gobsmacked, because we are just not that big a town. There were 17,000 people marching in Raleigh. Here are some wonderful photos of the marchers around the world. What…
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Recommended Reading: Gold Fame Citrus
This week I’m recommending Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins, which is a bit of a dystopia and a bit of a post-apocalypse and a bit of magical realism and is the latest book I’ve read set in the American Southwest. In the near future, drought has rendered the Southwestern United States nearly uninhabitable. A mountain-high sea dune…
Shannon Turlington 