Tag: Stephen Graham Jones

• 12 Books to Diversify Your Reading

  Sometimes we can get in a reading rut and find it difficult to break out of our comfort zones. But it’s a good idea to shake things up every now and then and read an author or a genre we normally wouldn’t consider, if only for the benefit of expanding our view of the world.…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 8, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  African American, Alternate history, Books, Brooke Bolander, Chinese American, David Demchuk, Diversity, Elephants, Ellen Klages, Fantastic fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Horror, Hye-Young Pyun, Korean Literature, Lara Elena Donnelly, Margaret Killjoy, Molly Tanzer, Native American, Novellas, Queer, Reading list, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, Tade Thompson, Ukraine, Victor LaValle, Women characters

• 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

• Halloween Reading

  Autumn is my favorite time of year. The crisp weather, the leaves turning, the light getting slantier–this is the perfect time to settle in with a spooky story, which happens to be my favorite kind of story. And even though Halloween is tomorrow, it’s not too late to get your spook on. Here are few…

  Shannon Turlington

  October 30, 2017

  Reading

  Books, Halloween, Horror, John Langan, Mapping the Interior, Novellas, Peter Straub, Pork Pie Hat, Stephen Graham Jones, The Devil in Silver, The Fisherman, Victor LaValle