Tag: Feminist fiction

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (2018) This 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 alternates among four women, who are […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 3, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Dystopia, Feminist fiction, Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2017 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 2017.  The River at Night by Erica Ferencik (2017) Four women friends go on a whitewater-rafting adventure trip, but an accident leaves them lost in the Maine backwoods, where they run into […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 2, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2017, All Our Wrong Todays, Alternate history, Apocalyptic literature, Carmen Maria Machado, Caroline Leavitt, Contemporary fiction, Cruel Beautiful World, David Williams, Dystopia, Elan Mastai, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Erica Ferencik, Essays, Fairy tales, Feminist fiction, Gail Honeyman, Gay and Lesbian, Ghost stories, Gwendy’s Button Box, Her Body and Other Parties, Historical fiction, Holly Goddard Jones, Horror, Hunger, Mapping the Interior, Megan Hunter, Memoir, News of the World, No Time to Spare, Paulette Jiles, Richard Chizmar, Roxane Gay, Sarah Lotz, Science fiction, Short stories, Slipstream, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King, Tade Thompson, The Changeling, The End We Start From, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, The River at Night, The Salt Line, The White Road, Thriller, Time travel, Ursula K Le Guin, Victor LaValle, When the English Fall

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2016 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 2016. The Power by Naomi Alderman (2016) What can I say about this book? I know it will be very divisive–some people will love it, some will hate it. I loved […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 29, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2016, Born a Crime, Dystopia, Emma Donoghue, Feminist fiction, Good Morning Midnight, Greener Pastures, Historical fiction, Horror, John Langan, Joshua Gaylord, Justin Cronin, Kij Johnson, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Memoir, Michael Wehunt, Naomi Alderman, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Short stories, The City of Mirrors, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, The Fisherman, The Passage, The Power, The Wonder, Trevor Noah, Vampires, When We Were Animals

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2015 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 2015. The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (2015) This novel follows two characters–only slightly connected–who are both from Oklahoma City and are both struggling to get past unresolved mysteries from […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 27, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2015, Alternate history, Charlotte Wood, David Wellington, Descent, Dystopia, Fantasy, Feminist fiction, Finders Keepers, Horror, Lou Berney, Molly Tanzer, Mystery, Positive, Short stories, Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The Long and Faraway Gone, The Natural Way of Things, Thriller, Tim Johnston, Vermilion, zombies

• 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 […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 15, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2011, Amor Towles, Bedbugs, Ben H Winters, Daryl Gregory, Dystopia, Fantasy, Feminist fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Hillary Jordan, Historical fiction, Horror, Madeline Miller, Patrick DeWitt, Raising Stony Mayhall, Rules of Civility, Science fiction, The Sisters Brothers, The Son of Achilles, When She Woke, zombies

• 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 […]

  Shannon Turlington

  August 30, 2018

  Reading

  Feminist fiction, Leni Zumas, Reading women, Recommended Reading, Red Clocks

• 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 / […]

  Shannon Turlington

  August 1, 2018

  Notebook, Reading

  A Room of One’s Own, Anger, Angry women, Audre Lord, Bad Feminist, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Claire Messud, Come Closer, Feminist fiction, Her Body and Other Parties, Jean Rhy, Joanna Russ, July 2018, Kiki Petrosino, Laurie Penny, Leslie Jamison, Margaret Atwood, Men Explain Things to Me, metoo, Naomi Alderman, NNedi Okorafor, Quotes, Reading list, Rebecca Solnit, Recommended Reading, Roxane Gay, Sara Gran, Sylvia Plath, The Female Man, The Power, The Robber Bride, The Woman Upstairs, The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf, Who Fears Death, Wide Sargasso Sea, Women, Women writers

• 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 […]

  Shannon Turlington

  June 1, 2018

  Reading

  Feminist fiction, Josh Malerman, Madeline Miller, May 2018, Naomi Alderman, Recommended Reading, Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog, Stephen King, The Outsider, The Power, The Song of Achilles, Unbury Carol

• Inspirations…

  The Women’s March on Washington is what is inspiring me right now. It started out as just an idea following on the surprising election results and has now grown, grassroots-style, into the largest protest and demonstration to take place in response to the inauguration. The march is for everyone, regardless of gender identity, who believes […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 19, 2017

  Notebook, Reading

  Equality, Feminism, Feminist fiction, Global Mission for Equality, Inspirations, Reading list, Women’s March on Washington, Women’s rights