Tag: Victor LaValle
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12 Books to Diversify Your Reading
Sometimes we can get in a reading rut and find it difficult to break out of our comfort zones. But it’s a good idea to shake things up every now and then and read an author or a genre we normally wouldn’t consider, if only for the benefit of expanding our view of the world.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
The Devil in Siliver by Victor LaValle (2012) Pepper is committed against his will to a mental hospital after being arrested, because the cops don’t want to bother with the paperwork. There, he discovers that some kind of monster–a man with the head of a bison–is stalking the patients, coming down through the ceiling in the…
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Halloween Reading
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The crisp weather, the leaves turning, the light getting slantier–this is the perfect time to settle in with a spooky story, which happens to be my favorite kind of story. And even though Halloween is tomorrow, it’s not too late to get your spook on. Here are few…
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Reading Journal: Beginning of April
It’s been over a month since I’ve posted a reading journal update. Most of my reading has lately not-so-inspiring–although I did enjoy reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor so much that I wrote a rather long response to it. Another post-apocalyptic book I enjoyed was Far North by Marcel Theroux. It is set in post-climate change Siberia and…
Shannon Turlington 