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anna genoese ([personal profile] alg) wrote2014-08-21 01:20 pm

Book log

Over the weekend, I was in NYC visiting my nephew:



While there, I read... The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.

Basically it is a zombie novel but about real life, because it's the story of the emergence of Ebola. And everything about Ebola is like a zombie novel (especially the Mira Grant Newsflesh trilogy). I took immense glee in reading about the way the virus works and all the science-y stuff.

(When I told my mom, "I don't know, I'd rather die from Ebola than Spanish flu," she shifted her chair away from me.)

(Last year, I read The Great Influenza, and it scared the shit out of me. Ebola seems awful, but less painful for everyone involved.)

Somehow I ended up with only non-fiction on my ereader, so I'm not sure what I'm going to read next. I do have some nice fiction paperbacks at home, but I don't like to carry those around. My train ride on the way home from NYC was 100% fanfic and editing a YA sf novel, so maybe I'm due for more non-fiction. Or maybe I should finally read Ancillary Justice, which I bought when it came out and then never read because someone I hated posted about how much they loved it. Yes, I am small and petty and probably that was cutting off my nose to spite my face.

Just look at the picture of baby feet again:



Also, look! The Humble Bundle Book Perk bundle is mighty tempting.

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