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 … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2019 Novels
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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, … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2018 Novels
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 … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King
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
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 … Continue reading 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. 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 … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Revival 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 … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Joyland 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 … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
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 … Continue reading Reading May 2018: The Power and more
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 … Continue reading Reading January 2018: Hunger and Sleeping Beauties
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