Tag: Time travel

• 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: 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: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (2013) Ursula Todd is born on a snowy night in 1910 and dies before she can draw her first breath; then she is born again, on that same night, and lives; and again; and again.…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 19, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Historical fiction, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, Slipstream, Time travel

• 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

• Favorite Time Travel Novels

  Today I started reading An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim, which promises to be an engaging time travel story. And like every good geek, I saw Avengers: Endgame this past weekend, which also plays around with time travel. I enjoy time travel stories because their mind-bending possibilities are so abundant, but it’s difficult to write time travel well. The…

  Shannon Turlington

  May 1, 2019

  Reading

  Reading list, Science fiction, Time travel

• Reading April 2018: The Gone World and more

  Here we are almost at the end of April already, so I’m declaring my favorite book of the month to be The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. I received this book in a mystery box and had no idea what it was about. I discovered a complex and unique story combining elements of time travel, multiverse, police…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 30, 2018

  Reading

  All Our Wrong Todays, April 2018, audiobooks, Dark Matter, Elan Mastai, Ghost stories, Horror, Michelle Paver, Multiverse, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Recommended Reading, The Gone World, Time travel, Tom Sweterlitsch

• Recommended Reading: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

  This month I am recommending The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. When Harry August dies, he is reborn as himself at the same time and to the same parents, but with the memories of his previous lives intact. When he learns that another person like him is manipulating history for his own selfish ends…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 15, 2016

  Reading

  Claire North, First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Recommended Reading, Slipstream, Time travel