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I 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.“

As always, Shusterman asks a very interesting question in his latest YA science fiction story. What if there was a pandemic, one with a mortality rate higher than Covid, caused by a virus that, if you survived, left you feeling content…happy…unburdened by negative emotions, a need for money, a new found wonder for the world… How would you react? Would this be good for the world? Or bad? Really, really interesting story & a lot to think about.

Have to go with Shusterman to start the weekend…

#BookMail from yesterday. Not sure when I‘m going to read this one, but I‘m guessing soonish since Shusterman usually delivers such great YA dystopian badness in the best way.

I found this novel to be both enjoyable and thought-provoking. How a virus can be seen as man's greatest threat and a saving grace, depending on where you stand. While the length of the book was intimidating, the pages flew by. I don't know how well this book will go over with a YA audience, but it works from an adult's perspective.

Yay for Tuesday and some new books ahead of a couple of days of snowy weather…

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Oof! This is my first Follett and I think he must have owed his publisher a book. I have heard great things about his historical fiction novels, but this was not great. I was expecting an exciting “stop an outbreak” kind of book. Instead, it was rather dull. I plowed on thinking there was going to be a huge twist. Nope!

Finished January 27, 2025.

In this sequel to “Dead of Night,” we continue the story of what happened to a small Pennsylvania town after a serial killer, Homer Gibbon, is lethally injected by a deadly virus and thus goes on a bloody rampage, infecting others and ultimately bringing about a zombie apocalypse.

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“In 1938, he created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The foundation raised money for the care of patients and prevention of the disease in a campaign dubbed the “March of Dimes.”

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