Tag: Stephen King
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…