Tag: When We Were Animals

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2016 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 2016. The Power by Naomi Alderman (2016) What can I say about this book? I know it will be very divisive–some people will love it, some will hate it. I loved…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 29, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2016, Born a Crime, Dystopia, Emma Donoghue, Feminist fiction, Good Morning Midnight, Greener Pastures, Historical fiction, Horror, John Langan, Joshua Gaylord, Justin Cronin, Kij Johnson, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Memoir, Michael Wehunt, Naomi Alderman, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Short stories, The City of Mirrors, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, The Fisherman, The Passage, The Power, The Wonder, Trevor Noah, Vampires, When We Were Animals

• Recommended Reading: When We Were Animals

  In a small town somewhere in America, when the children reach adolescence, they breach. On the nights of the full moon, they give in fully to instinct and run wild and naked in the streets. Everyone else stays indoors. There is sex, there is violence; anything can happen, and almost everything is allowed. Lumen Fowler,…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 30, 2017

  Reading

  Coming of age, Horror, Joshua Gaylord, Recommended Reading, When We Were Animals