Tag: The Outsider

• 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

• 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