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I love horror & zombies!
1. I have a hard time picking my favorite, but I‘ll go with The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell. Very existentialist!
2. Just one? 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, The Dead Don‘t Die, Train to Busan, Warm Bodies, Juan of the Dead, Zombieland, Little Monsters, Reanimator (hon. mention to Girl with All the Gifts and WWZ-but the books were better!)
3. Raising Stony Mayhall and eager to try Zone One by Colson Whitehead!

1.) I'd say the Loch Ness Monster, the pictures took of it could easily be fakes but it's funny because it also looks like a Plesiosaurus in those pictures - so you never know! 😋🤷‍♂️

2.) I'm happy that I made some decent progress on my current read, it's been a crazy week so far and not found much concentration! 😏

#thankfulthursday @Cosmos_Moon 🌙

A quick zombie read very much about holding on to your humanity, retaining some sense of honor & perspective in the midst of unspeakable loss & horror. The story follows a young girl named Temple who is wandering across the country from enclave to enclave until she meets someone she can help...which she does while trying to stay one step ahead of the zombies & something worse. Temple is a dynamic, interesting character & I enjoyed the book.

Dove deep into my TBR stacks for my next book...

1. ❤️Zombies! Tagged book is one of my favorites as is Raising Stony Mayhall !!!
2. Vampires AND Werewolves! Loved the Vampire Lestat series and The Lonely Werewolf Girl was a serendipitous tag sale find that I fell in love with!
3. Psycho Thrillers!!
4. Hmmmm.... So many! Child of the 80s, I‘ll have to go with the cult classics like Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, and Friday the 13th
5. ❤️chocolate, but not Tootsie Rolls

I wanted a bleak zombie novel, and that is what I got. In that sense, I don't hate it. That said I can't believe the author, editor, or pre-readers spent 10 seconds between them researching ANYTHING. I couldn't go a page without being pulled out if the story by things that simply don't work the way the author described them. Most frustrating "good book" ever.

This book wasn't listed so I've listed one I recommend...

The book pictured though 😻

5 out of 5 stars -This is a gruesome and beautiful book. This allegorical tale of a 15-year-old girl wandering a barren wasteland should not be beautiful, because she's fighting off zombies and a guy who's dead set on executing her. But it is. The writing is lush and gorgeous, the kind that makes you want to sink down and roll around in it until some small part of it is absorbed into your skin.

"Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free."

This was the first book@trioxin_sematary sent me when we first started talking ! sounds amazing! I haven't seen it much on litsy so I wanted to post it! GO check it out!! I love post-apocalyptic books

#postapocalyptic

Another take on zombies with a southern gothic spin. Some gory parts but a fun read.

I nearly read this all in one sitting yesterday. Finally had to put it down at 2 am. Really good!

When you're reading and all of a sudden they're talking about the town you live in. 😊

Starting off the new year with some zombies 😨

Book mail!

I had to complete my hardcover collection of LOTR, and I found this lovely edition on thriftbooks... so naturally I needed to order a couple more books to get free shipping. 😂

I decided on some scary stuff for my fall reading. 👻 🎃

#diamonds (in the rough? feel the stretch) Temple, a girl much older than her 15 years suggests, struggles in a post apocalyptic world. She's kickass and smart, she just doesn't know it. You kinda wanna shake her and tell her to give herself a break, that she's deserving of her own love. This book is No Country For Old Men meets zombies. Internal struggle paired with lots of action, I was surprised how good this book turned out to be.

Welcome to my Dystopian Week! My senior seminar class' theme is "Theorizing Dystopian Realities." If you have any good Dystopian books, let me know! What's your favorite Dystopian novel?

Good palate cleanser for the week.

This was a well done, literary take on the zombie novel. Temple is a 15 year old girl traveling an America that has been battling a zombie problem for 25 years. However, this book is less about the zombies and more about the Human Condition and finding beauty & purpose in a world that seems to have none. There is a fair amount of violence and gore though, just FYI. Even if you think you don't like zombie /dystopian novels, give this one a try.

The Reapers Are the Angels is the zombie novel I wish got all the attention. It's a moving, violent, philosophical, zombie road novel with an incredible voice to be exact. It did win ALA's Alex Award, but--at least judging the number of GR ratings compared to other zombie novels--it deserves sooooo much more recognition. #AllHallowsRead

This book about a 15 year old girl living in a worlds filled with meatbags (zombies) has only learned to live by a kill-or-be-killed philosophy. Always alert to the dangers around her, Temple can still find beauty in a ruined world. I never knew a zombie novel could move me into crying buckets. An amazing read. #recommendsday

Book Featuring the Day of the Dead: "TRATA" is a beautifully written novel in which a young woman/girl treks across a gruesomely stark landscape of a near future populated by zombies. The writing is stunningly elegant and mesmerizing, the audio (narrated by Tai Sammons) hypnotic. #AllHallowsRead

Starting this little gem tonight! Thanks again for the recommendation Liberty!

This gruesome, beautiful post-apocalyptic western follows a 15-year-old girl named Temple who wanders the wasteland. Her encounters with other survivors include a family wasting away in their elegant mansion, a band of vicious mutants, and a mute, helpless man. And zombies! Did I mention there are zombies? :D

The writing is absolutely gorgeous, and this is one of my favorites in the literary horror genre. (Also adult fiction, despite her age.)

Thanks Liberty! Just ordered my copy!😀

Starting on this today

Awesome book about the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. Like most zombie books this really isn't about the zombies, the undead are just a framing device to discuss grief and how we deal with loss. Great, intense, quick read.