The Brief History of the Dead | 
so-soBetween a Pick and a So-So.
Pick because it gave me some new ideas to think about, and I liked the settings the author chose. Also, involvement of Coca-Cola 😆
So-So because Brockmeier could've made more out of this. Giving it more depth, more thought. Really trying to answer some questions, instead of only staying on the surface.
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📖 Oddly, 2020 started with a book about the extinction of humans from a virus... the tagged.
📚 Nicholas Sparks, Every Breath finished the year.
📖 Now reading Rob Reid, After On - near futuristic novel of Silicon Valley and a strange takeover of social media.
#Goodbye2020
@ShyBookOwl
1. https://youtu.be/jFwB5ayV0vQ
2. I love the contrasting voices, female vocals and rock n roll
3. Won a new $1.2 M grant from EPA for an air quality program I manage! I can‘t share more cause it‘s not official until all the contract paperwork is done & signed 🤩 And had a zoom conference with old college friends for hours tonight. Happy Thursday!
#ThankfulThursday
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#TBRPile Day 3
Posting one book from TBR piles per day for 31 days. No reason, no explanation. Uncover a few gems & create a TBR from my TBR.
@StaceyKondla
so-soI was ready to rate this 3.5 stars (good), but I dropped it right at the end. I mostly preferred following Laura‘s story in Antarctica to the chapters following the various people in the “dead” city. But, the last chapter following Laura was just... weird, I thought
pickAn imaginative story of a version of life after death, the extinction of humans, being the last person on earth.
Day1 #7Days7Covers #CoverCrush #Day1
Post a cover you love each day for 7 days. No explanation needed. Tag someone new every day.
Thanks to @SW-T for the tag.
Would you like to play @VioletBramble
pickThis book has been on my TBR radar for years. It is a very interesting original story for sure. I think it is one that will stay with you simply bc it is such a different book. It wasn't amazing or mind blowing, but a nice change of pace I guess.
I love this puzzle! Famous couples throughout literature. It had unique pieces too so it was a bit of a challenge. #audiopuzzling
@TheWordJar sorry the post is a day late. Thank you so much for everything! I'm posting another picture of what I couldn't fit in this one soon. Idk how you knew bout my sweet spot for butterflies and journaling but thank you so much! XD
@BookishMarginalia
#summersantagoespostal
P.s. is there anyway to upload more than 1 pic at time on Litsy? I've been trying to figure it out and having no luck.
#RRSciFiMonth Day 11: Lest we forget
Today‘s catch up is all about loss and memory. The dead live in a city of no boundaries. But it‘s shrinking; the people are disappearing. What links them to Laura, isolated in the Antarctic when a global catastrophe occurs?
I loved this book (my bookclub hated me for picking it I think) - lyrical, tragic, but celebrating the unexpected connections we forge in life. A+ apocalypse
Escaped the city and went to my grandmother‘s farm this afternoon. A little snow and a lot of quiet as I reread this haunting book.
pickBeautiful, magical, but I have so many questions about life in the City.
When you stumble across an old favorite in your local library and realize that TBR pile be damned, it is time for a reread! 🤓📚📚📚
I will never actually make it through my TBR list, will I?
It rained and now it‘s coooooooold outside ❄️ 🤗 I am loving these snuggles 🐶
🙀🙀 I was listening to All The Backlist and @Liberty recommend this book and I thought while 🚗...I swear I bought that book at a sale a long time ago bc the cover and title sounded interesting. I checked immediately upon getting home and I have it!!! Since I‘m sick in bed (*cough* library chair *cough*) how more perfect could this book find be?
This is just such a beautiful lovely story that deserves all the attention it can get. And a movie of this would be PERFECT. The possibilities for the sets of The City, in contrast to Laura's quest for survival in Antartica, just offers up unparalleled cinematic beauty. Somebody need to make this happen, because #thisshouldbeamovie .
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@RealLifeReading
This is as close as I have to a #headlesscover #headlesscovers #photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading #day18
This is a great #creepycover #creepycovers , I think #booktober @RealLifeReading #day27
"Her sense of time had broken apart into two equal halves and fallen away from her like the shell of a walnut."
Every once in a while my husband reads a book I recommend and then buys copies for his friends.
so-soInteresting concept, but it does move slower than expected. If you like literature with an interesting underlying premise, you'll love this book. The audiobook was a pretty great listen on my commute, but it is a slower story as it profiles characters and their interactions.
pickIt's #Recommendsday! What are you recommending? "The City is a place where the dead reside, and as long as there is someone still alive on Earth who remembers them, there they stay - until a deadly virus wipes out the planet's population, except for Laura Byrd, a scientist working alone in the Antarctic. Now the only people left in the City are people Laura remembers. Really cool premise, right?!? I love this book with my whole heart." - @Liberty
My previous copy had a really beautiful cover, but it fell apart after several re-readings. When I ordered a new copy at my local bookstore I forgot to make sure which cover I got. This cover doesn't work for me at all, it does the book a great disservice. For the first time in many years I'm re-reading to see if my past infatuation with the book was warranted
so-soThe book faces a major problem, and it's the same problem that many projects by Damon Lindeloff face: when we as an audience are given a complex and interesting puzzle, we want to find out more about the puzzle, not spend our time getting to know characters. A character-driven novel about a super complex and interesting afterlife concept with a fascinating structure creates a problem.
Maybe get this one on Audible.
Been wanting to read this for more than 6 years. Tag tells me I've owned it for more than four years. Finally starting it today!
One of my favorite books ever - I just recommended it again yesterday.
