Tag: Ray Bradbury

• Most influential authors…

  I keep a record of what I read in LibraryThing. I haven’t recorded every book I’ve ever read, because I don’t remember (boy, I wish I had started keeping a list at the age of 5 or something). But I have recorded almost 1,200 books, so I thought I’d take a look at my authors…

  Shannon Turlington

  March 17, 2015

  Notebook

  Christopher Moore, Edward Gorey, Francine Prose, Fred Chappell, Influence, Jane Austen, jonathan lethem, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kim Stanley Robinson, LibraryThing, Lists, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Tom Perrotta, Ursula K Le Guin, Writers

• A survey of classic science fiction, with notes about diversity in sci-fi…

  At some point, I set out to read a representative sample of all the “great” writers of science fiction, so I could feel reasonably well-educated in the genre. If you haven’t read a lot of science fiction, I recommend this exercise. It provides a grounding so you can learn where the well-worn tropes originated and appreciate…

  Shannon Turlington

  March 5, 2015

  Reading

  Alfred Bester, Arthur C Clarke, Classic science fiction, Diversity in science fiction, Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, HG Wells, Isaac Asimov, Joanna Russ, Joe Haldeman, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry Niven, Marge Piercy, Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury, Reading list, Robert Heinlein, Samuel R Delany, Science fiction, Survey, Ursula K Le Guin, Women characters

• Halloween picks: The Scariest books

  I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big…

  Shannon Turlington

  October 30, 2014

  Reading

  Classics, Day of the Triffids, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Halloween, Haunting of Hill House, Heart-Shaped Box, HG Wells, Horror, House on the Borderland, HP Lovecraft, Ira Levin, IT, Joe Hill, John Wyndham, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Max Brooks, NOS4A2, Ray Bradbury, Rosemary’s Baby, Scariest books, Scary, Scott Smith, Shirley Jackson, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stephen King, The Ruins, The Shining, War of the Worlds, William Hope Hodgson, World War Z

• 12 Banned Books to Read

  This is the week that we celebrate books that have been banned or challenged. Usually, the books are banned from school libraries or from being taught in school. The reasons given seem valid–sexual content, dirty language, racism–but dig a little deeper and you’ll generally find that the true reason is that these books seem dangerous.…

  Shannon Turlington

  September 26, 2014

  Reading

  12 Books, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Animal Farm, Anne Frank, Banned books, Catcher in the Rye, Challenged books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Diary of a Young Girl, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JD Salinger, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Lois Lowry, Mark Twain, Ray Bradbury, Reading list, Richard Adams, Roald Dahl, The Giver, The Hobbit, To Kill a Mockingbird, Watership Down