Tag: Shirley Jackson

• Recommended Reading: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

  In the introduction to the short story collection Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives that she edited, Sarah Weinman laments that “an entire generation of female crime writers…have faded from view.” Many of these writers, popular and lauded in their day, have been forgotten over time. Weinman has selected stories by fourteen of them, ranging in publication date from…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 1, 2016

  Reading

  Anthologies, Crime, Domestic suspense, Noir, Patricia Highsmith, Recommended Reading, Sarah Weinman, Shirley Jackson, Short stories, Suspense, Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives, Women writers

• An inside-out fairy tale…

  I have been on a Shirley Jackson kick lately. Read my essay about her best novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

  Shannon Turlington

  November 3, 2015

  Asides

  Fairy tales, Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

• The Haunting of Hill House: a love story?

  Is Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece, The Haunting of Hill House, really a love story? Check out my essay.

  Shannon Turlington

  October 23, 2015

  Asides

  Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

• Links for readers…

  A roundup of interesting stuff to read about reading, featuring some of my favoritest writrs: All the critical backlash over Go Set a Watchman is missing the point on XOJane: I’ve got a copy and am ready to read it, but the Internet feeding frenzy really turned me off; I like to form my own opinions on…

  Shannon Turlington

  August 25, 2015

  Notebook

  Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Mental Floss, Onion, Reader’s Corner, Readers, Shirley Jackson, The Toast, Ursula K Le Guin, Writers

• 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

• Favorite Reads of 2014

  I was going to do a whole “year in reading” post, but I got sucked into other things and now I find the year has already turned over. Happy new year! Here are my favorite reads of last year. Many are relatively new, some are classics, all are worth your time. The Sundial by Shirley…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 1, 2015

  Reading

  13 Clocks, Allie Brosh, Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie, Ann Patchett, Big Sleep, Burn Palace, Charlotte’s Web, China Mountain Zhang, Cold Comfort Farm, David Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Hyperbole and a Half, In the Woods, James and the Giant Peach, Maureen F McHugh, Michael Farris Smith, Raymond Chandler, Reading, Revival, Rivers, Shirley Jackson, State of Wonder, Stella Gibbons, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen King, Tana French, The Bone Clocks, The Sundial

• 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

• 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