Tag: PD James

• 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

• Books by women: A reading list

  In a recent post, I discussed trying to read books written by women. This led me to consider which women authors I would recommend, and I came up with a list of books by women that I think are entertaining and enlightening reads. Of course, I am not the only person to have come up […]

  Shannon Turlington

  June 22, 2014

  Reading

  Anne Lamott, Audrey Niffenegger, Charlotte Bronte, Connie Willis, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy L. Sayers, E Annie Proulx, Erin Morgenstern, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Jean Hegland, Jo Walton, Kate Atkinson, Kate Chopin, Kate Wilhelm, Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell, MK Wren, Nancy Kress, Octavia Butler, Patricia Highsmith, PD James, Reading list, Reading women, Sheri S. Tepper, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, Ursula K Le Guin, Women writers, Year of reading women

• My review of The Children of Men by PD James on SF Mistressworks

  SF Mistressworks has graciously reposted my review of The Children of Men by P.D. James. I hope you will go read it and support this terrific blog reviewing science fiction written by women.

  Shannon Turlington

  April 30, 2014

  Asides

  Book Reviews, PD James, SF Mistressworks, The Children of Men