Tag: Maureen F McHugh

• 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

• How to consciously read books written by women…

  Before I started journaling my reading, in 2001, I just read whatever caught my eye at the bookstore without any sort of plan whatsoever. Over the decade since I started journaling, I’ve gradually become more purposeful in my reading, and if I look back over my journals (now on LibraryThing), I can see a steady…

  Shannon Turlington

  June 13, 2014

  Reading

  Ariel Djanikian, China Mountain Zhang, Female Man, Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker, Joanna Russ, Maureen F McHugh, Office of Mercy, Reading, Reading women, Women writers, Year of reading women