Tag: Michel Faber

• Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

  Today’s reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I’ve tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always […]

  Shannon Turlington

  April 9, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Books, Cherie Priest, China Mieville, Claire Vaye Watkins, Dave Eggers, David Mitchell, Dexter Palmer, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Margaret Atwood, Michel Faber, Paolo Bacigalupi, PD James, Reading list, Science fiction

• 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 […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 24, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Dystopia, Michel Faber, Science fiction, Slipstream, The Book of Strange New Things

• Popular Books Read and Unread in 2015

  I like to track my reading in multiple ways, for which I use the various OCD tracking tools on LibraryThing. One way is to track what I read during the year as compared to what others were reading during the same period (here’s the list). It interests me to see what trends emerge. Here are […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 5, 2016

  Reading

  Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie, Annihilation, Best of 2015, Book of Strange New Things, Dept. of Speculation, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeff VanderMeer, Jenny Offill, Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Men Explain Things to Me, Michel Faber, Popular books, Reading, Rebecca Solnit, Station Eleven