Tag: NNedi Okorafor

• 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 Journal: Beginning of April

  It’s been over a month since I’ve posted a reading journal update. Most of my reading has lately not-so-inspiring–although I did enjoy reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor so much that I wrote a rather long response to it. Another post-apocalyptic book I enjoyed was Far North by Marcel Theroux. It is set in post-climate change Siberia and…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 7, 2016

  Reading

  A Head Full of Ghosts, Alexandra Sokoloff, Bad Wizard, Benjamin Percy, Far North, Horror, Horror by women, HP Lovecraft, James Maxey, John Scalzi, Kathe Koja, Literary homages, Lock In, Marcel Theroux, New fiction, NNedi Okorafor, Novellas, Paul Tremblay, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Reading, Scott Hawkins, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Cipher, The Dead Lands, The Horror at Red Hook, The Library at Mount Char, The Unseen, Victor LaValle, Who Fears Death