pickA short prequel story, the beginning of the Newsflesh series, which sets up the Kellis-Amberlee virus: a man-made cure for cancer merges with a man-made cure for the common cold and the world falls fast. I felt so much dread, especially since I‘m [now] pretty familiar with things like reliable news sources, modes of virus transmission, and talk of vaccines.
By the end of the story, I am firmly in a world that is in bad, bad shape.
pick5/5⭐ Mira Grant is a master of the short story. I loved the insights into several different perspectives over the timeline of Countdown. It was absolutely terrifying reading about the onset of a global pandemic during a global pandemic. #bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks
When you are rereading a story about killer viruses that you first read in 2012 and one word stands out 🤦🏻♀️
#covid19 #coronavirus #KellisAmberlee
I finally finished the Newsflesh trilogy so now it‘s time to read all the extra content!! (Sorry for the photo it‘s an ebook only Novella which limits my photography options >_
Repost from @dariazeoli :
I‘ll be 39 next month. My Litfluence is about the same as my age (38.967 🤣) & I hit 700 followers today, so I‘m giving away books!
I‘ve not read the 2 mysteries, but read & enjoyed the other 2, which were sent to me by the publisher for review. Want the lot? Post with #Countdownto39Giveaway and tell me 1 book you want to read by your next birthday!
I‘ll choose a winner when I wake up on New Year‘s Day. Sorry, US only.
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Just Plain Weird
- Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, China Miéville
- Ender's Game, The Last Unicorn, The Neverending Story
- @Jaberwocky @Seshat
- Edward McKay's Used Books and More in Winston-Salem, NC, Beach Book Mart in Atlantic Beach, NC
- outofprintclothing.com litographs.com
- a copy of The Hobbit with illustrations from the Rankin/Bass animated film
- wherever I can
- Autumn
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Still have a ways to go. 1 book done, 1/3 through the 2nd. @BookBabe & I are going for a walk through #MiddleEarth & each of us will be listening to our own audiobooks 😆👏🏻. We can do it! #24in48 😎👍🏻
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a good (short!) book to kick off October with! I chose it to complete one of the #popsugarreadingchallenge categories - read a book and its prequel. I enjoyed Feed earlier this year, and I enjoyed Countdown as well. My heart broke just a tiny bit over Marigold. 💔 Why is it that the human deaths I was like, yeah yeah, but dog deaths = 😭😭😭. Something is wrong with me.
Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella | 
