Tag: Sarah Lotz

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2017 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 2017.  The River at Night by Erica Ferencik (2017) Four women friends go on a whitewater-rafting adventure trip, but an accident leaves them lost in the Maine backwoods, where they run into…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 2, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2017, All Our Wrong Todays, Alternate history, Apocalyptic literature, Carmen Maria Machado, Caroline Leavitt, Contemporary fiction, Cruel Beautiful World, David Williams, Dystopia, Elan Mastai, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Erica Ferencik, Essays, Fairy tales, Feminist fiction, Gail Honeyman, Gay and Lesbian, Ghost stories, Gwendy’s Button Box, Her Body and Other Parties, Historical fiction, Holly Goddard Jones, Horror, Hunger, Mapping the Interior, Megan Hunter, Memoir, News of the World, No Time to Spare, Paulette Jiles, Richard Chizmar, Roxane Gay, Sarah Lotz, Science fiction, Short stories, Slipstream, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King, Tade Thompson, The Changeling, The End We Start From, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, The River at Night, The Salt Line, The White Road, Thriller, Time travel, Ursula K Le Guin, Victor LaValle, When the English Fall

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Three by Sarah Lotz

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Three by Sarah Lotz (2015) Four planes crash simultaneously in different parts of the world, three children survive and behave strangely afterward, and conspiracy theories run rampant, including a cult of Christians who believe this signals the End Times.…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 27, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Apocalyptic literature, Horror, Sarah Lotz, The Three

• Disaster

  Good morning. Lately, I have been attracted to stories about disasters, both real and imagined. I am currently reading Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson, about the disastrous Galveston hurricane of 1900, and learning a lot about hurricanes in the process. Recently, I have watched the films Everest (2015), about the tragic expedition of 1996, and…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 26, 2018

  Word of the Day

  Climate change, disaster, Erik Larson, Everest, In the Heart of the Sea, Isaac’s Storm, Michelle Paver, Sarah Lotz, The White Road, Thin Air

• Recommended Reading: Three creepy reads for October

  October always gets me in the mood to give myself the creeps. I’ve been behind in posting book recommendations lately, so here are three recs for the price of one, all guaranteed to make you shiver. First up is The Three by South African writer Sarah Lotz. Four planes crash simultaneously in different parts of the world, three…

  Shannon Turlington

  October 1, 2016

  Reading

  Bird Box, Broken Monsters, Creeps, Fall reading, Horror, Josh Malerman, Lauren Beukes, October, Recommended Reading, Sarah Lotz, The Three