pickIn a burned out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what if anything awaits them there
Attempting to survive, they have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves.
pickI'll be honest: I started this book partly because the cover looks like an evil universe baby version of my friend Lisa. But then I could not stop reading and ended up devouring it in a couple of days. Best thriller/horror I have read in a long time. Spooky, weird, and full of possibilities. The very likeable main character is neuroatypical and goes about trying to solve corporate sabotage cases in unusual but effective ways. Hesketh's journey👇
pickI think we all think about the end of the world or ourselves, if only briefly, at least once a day. We imagine how it will happen—quick, painful? With warning, time to prepare and make final rounds? We consume film, literature, and headlines that talk about it—because we love it. We think we will get the time off from work, lose our worries, lose our financial debts, our jury duties. If we lose these things, will we also lose our sense of⬇️
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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A conversation with the author about his latest book.
Link to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-club/id1158913265?i=1000652169412
bailedwoah, eww, and what did I just read? I think I liked it? Everything that is happening in this book is confusing. I honestly have no idea who this book would be appealing to. It is vulgar and vile, but also hilarious. The explicit language and constant mentioning of being horny because of so many different things was just too much for me. The sci-fic aspect was the coolest part with giant grasshoppper/praying mantis-type bugs taking over the world.
pick“Everybody dies, everything ends—but not now. Not now.”
This book covers the end of the world as we know it, or at least the end of humanity, and how that may come to pass. Chapters feature ways we‘ll go out like pandemics, nuclear weapons, climate change, overpopulation, war, cosmic events and more. Far from depressing, this was a fun look at the way humans have thought about the end of times over many years, through books, movies, etc.
pickI finally found the motivation to begin my reading journey for the year in this delightfully unexpected little book. The writing style was unique and it truly felt like a relic from another world plagued by a terrible calamity. The themes of disease and the struggle to determine cause and cure are accentuated by the brutal imagery of the zombies being autopsied while still “alive.“
