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 … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2017 Novels
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This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Slade House by David Mitchell (2015) Every nine years on the last Saturday in October, a mysterious iron door appears in the wall of Slade Alley. If you open it--and you should hope you don't--you'll find yourself in an impossible … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Slade House by David Mitchell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (2014) A Christian preacher travels to another planet, Oasis, to minister to the alien natives and finds himself becoming more distant from his wife, left behind on Earth where society seems to … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014) Mitchell's latest novel is a genre-bending epic spanning sixty years about the people whose fates are altered by an ongoing war between immortals. The story begins in 1984 England as fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes is … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Annihilation: Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (2014) An expedition of four unnamed female scientists ventures into the mysterious Area X, and bad things happen. I used to be a superfan of the TV show Lost until … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013) A writer living on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia finds a package washed ashore from Japan containing a diary and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (2013) Ursula Todd is born on a snowy night in 1910 and dies before she can draw her first breath; then she is born again, on that same night, and lives; and again; and again. … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
This month I am recommending The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. When Harry August dies, he is reborn as himself at the same time and to the same parents, but with the memories of his previous lives intact. When he learns that another person like him is manipulating history for his own selfish ends … Continue reading Recommended Reading: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Of all the sub-genres crowded under the broad umbrella of "speculative fiction," slipstream is probably the trickiest to nail down. Bruce Sterling, who coined the term, called slipstream "...a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility." (Presumably, … Continue reading The slippery genre of slipstream…
I absolutely loved A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. A writer living on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia finds a package washed ashore from Japan containing a diary and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to the teenage girl who wrote it. This novel has all the elements I enjoy, … Continue reading Recommended Reading: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
