Tag: Naomi Alderman

• 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

• 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

• 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