Tag: Madeline Miller

• A List of Badass Women

  Today’s reading list is a roundup of badass women–but what does “badass” mean exactly? These are women who don’t conform to the norms that have been set out for women as a whole. They may seem intimidating or–that worst of all literary sins–unlikable. These women follow their own path, make sometimes questionable choices, risk screwing…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 10, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Alyson Hagy, Badass women, Books, Carmen Maria Machado, Hallie Butler, Leni Zumas, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Megan Hunter, Naomi Alderman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Reading list, Women, Women characters, Women writers

• What I’ve Been Reading: Books by Women

  Time for an update of what I’ve been reading lately: three recent publications by women writers that are each, in their own way, unusual and engrossing reads. First up: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, her first novel since The Night Circus, which was a favorite of mine. With The Starless Sea, Morgenstern has written a deeply felt and…

  Shannon Turlington

  February 20, 2020

  Reading

  Book Reviews, Books, Circe, Erin Morgenstern, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Recent reading, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Starless Sea, The Testaments, Women writers

• 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

• 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