Tag: Stephen King

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2019 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 2019.  The Institute by Stephen King (2019) Solid King entertainment. True to form, once I was hooked I couldn’t put it down. King gives his characters heart in a way that so…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 6, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Ben H Winters, Carmen Maria Machado, Dystopia, Golden State, Horror, In the Dream House, Memoir, Stephen King, The Institute

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2018 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 2018.  The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (2018) I thought this was a lovely short book with a strong message of empowerment. The narrative weaves together the perspectives from prehistory,…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 5, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  Alyson Hagy, An Ocean of Minutes, Apocalyptic literature, Brooke Bolander, Christine Mangan, Contemporary fiction, Domestic suspense, Dystopia, Elevation, Ghost stories, Horror, Laura Purcell, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Novellas, Ottessa Moshfegh, Reading women, Science fiction, Scribe, Semiosis, Stephen King, Sue Burke, Tangerine, The Gone World, The Only Harmless Great Thing, The Outsider, The Silent Companions, Thea Lim, Time travel, Tom Sweterlitsch

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King

  Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King (2017) If you are a fan of Stephen King’s big fat page-turners, this is a good one to pick up. It was cowritten with his son Owen King, but I couldn’t detect two voices in the writing. What amazed me was that this book was written by two…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 2, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Horror, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King

• 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: Quick Takes of 2015 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 2015. The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (2015) This novel follows two characters–only slightly connected–who are both from Oklahoma City and are both struggling to get past unresolved mysteries from…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 27, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2015, Alternate history, Charlotte Wood, David Wellington, Descent, Dystopia, Fantasy, Feminist fiction, Finders Keepers, Horror, Lou Berney, Molly Tanzer, Mystery, Positive, Short stories, Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The Long and Faraway Gone, The Natural Way of Things, Thriller, Tim Johnston, Vermilion, zombies

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Revival by Stephen King

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Revival by Stephen King (2014) Throughout his life, Jamie Morton has repeatedly encountered the Reverend Charles Jacobs and been drawn into his mysterious experiments with electricity, but toward the end of Jacobs’s life, he coerces Jamie into participating into the ultimate–and…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 22, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Horror, Revival, Stephen King

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Joyland by Stephen King

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Joyland by Stephen King (2013) A student takes a year off from college to work in a beach-town amusement park, which is haunted by the ghost of a girl whose murder was never solved. Note: There are some spoilers in this…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 20, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Ghost stories, Horror, Joyland, Stephen King

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: 11/22/63 by Stephen King

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Jake Epping, an ordinary high school teacher, discovers a portal to the past and sets out to change history by preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Stephen King’s novel, 11/22/63, is not what you might expect from the master…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 15, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  11/22/63, Alternate history, Stephen King, Thriller, Time travel

• Reading May 2018: The Power and more

  My favorite read this month was The Power by Naomi Alderman, which I gave five stars. It posits what if a power awakens in women, an innate ability to generate electric power, so that they can defend themselves and hurt other people, so that they, in just a few years, become more powerful than men? I found…

  Shannon Turlington

  June 1, 2018

  Reading

  Feminist fiction, Josh Malerman, Madeline Miller, May 2018, Naomi Alderman, Recommended Reading, Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog, Stephen King, The Outsider, The Power, The Song of Achilles, Unbury Carol

• Reading January 2018: Hunger and Sleeping Beauties

  I’m trying something a bit different this year, in hopes of keeping the blog more or less regularly updated: posting my reading recommendations at the end of each month. I will share with you my favorite reads of the month, plus other recommendations (and I’ll keep the ‘meh’ reads to myself). My favorite two reads…

  Shannon Turlington

  February 1, 2018

  Reading

  Come Closer, Good Morning Midnight, Hunger, January 2018, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Matt Haig, Owen King, Reasons to Stay Alive, Recommended Reading, Roxane Gay, Sara Gran, Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King