Tag: Gaudy Night

• 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

• Ah, nostalgia! Revisiting childhood reads…

  Over the past couple of years, I’ve been revisiting favorite authors from my childhood, just rereading one or two of their best novels. I read a lot of mysteries back then, but I’ve fallen off in my mystery reading since. First, I reread some Agatha Christies: And Then There Were None and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 26, 2014

  Reading

  Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Childhood nostalgia, Detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Mysteries, Reading women, Women writers