chipper2) Books I have read and loved lately: I Am Not A Serial Killer. Saltation. Freaks: Alive On the Inside (which I found at the used bookstore, signed!). Unshelved: Volume I.
3) Books I have written and loved lately: Deadline. The Brightest Fell. This is a much shorter list, and that's a good thing, because it means I probably haven't actually sold my soul to the devil. Much.
4) I love superheroes. I love Disney. I love these Disney heroines presented in glorious super-heroic style. I especially love the zombified Snow White. This is because I am, in many ways, predictable, and I am not ashamed of that fact. Not in the slightest. Nor do I think I should be, really, as my predictability makes me easy to shop for.
5) Lilly and Alice have figured out that, together, they now possess sufficient mass and surface area to prevent me from moving when they don't want me to move. This is fine when I have a book with me and nothing in the oven, but other times...not so fine. In other news, the house did not burn down, although it was a somewhat close thing. And it wasn't my fault.
6) What he said.
7) This looks like it's going to be an amazing season for movies. My favorite so far this year are How to Train Your Dragon and Kick-Ass, with The Crazies coming in as a close third, but oh! The glories ahead! Nightmare on Elm Street, Iron Man 2, Prince of Persia, Shrek Forever After, and Letters to Juliet! Splice! Even Resident Evil: Afterlife, because my love for the franchise outweighs my scars from the third movie. What a wonderful thing a movie ticket can be.
8) I appear to be thinking in almost purely short fiction terms right now, as I recover from finishing Deadline and tackle the trickier bits of The Brightest Fell. So far this week, I've finished two Toby shorts, started a third, finished an InCryptid short, and started my story for an invite-only anthology. I'm hoping I can even get a Vel piece shoved in somewhere, before the steam runs out.
9) Guess what I get tomorrow. I get a Vixy. Do you get a Vixy? No, you do not. I am not much of a gloater, but right now? Right now, oh, I'm gonna gloat. Because I get a Vixy. Of my very own.
10) Jean Grey is dead, James Gunn needs to call me, and zombies are love.
Spotted a book review of Feed!
April 23 2010, 12:27:06 UTC 7 years ago
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Feed (Newflesh Trilogy #1) by Mira Grant. Orbit, 2010. 9780316081054 Reviewed by Flemtastic
1. Post-zombie-uprising United States. Georgia and Shaun are bloggers waiting for their big break. When they are picked as new media representatives to travel along with presidential candidate Senator Ryman, their ratings spike. They also have front row seats for the zombie attacks perpetrated by a shadowy cabal of zealots who weaponize the disease that reanimates the dead. As they dig into a mystery that involves the CDC and the government while trying to stay uninfected, they find that the truth might kill them, not set them free.
Why I picked it up: Read the first page where Shaun and Georgia jump a motorcycle over a mass of undead while trying to report a story and was hooked.
Why I finished it: This is smart zombie fiction, a mystery/thriller first and a zombie book second. Add the new media angle and the details of a society as obsessed with tracking infection as governing itself and you have a book that entertains with several different storylines. Plus, the book is full of nice touches, like claiming that the most popular names (both boys’ and girls’ names) in 2040 were ones that involved variations of George, as in George Romero, whose zombie movies remain the best/most informative manual for staying uninfected.
I'd give it to: Anyone who has discussed what a zombie-proof society would look like with good friends right after a Mountain Dew and Red-Vine fueled zombie movie marathon. Becca, because she likes strong, no-nonsense female protagonists.
Re: Spotted a book review of Feed!
April 23 2010, 14:28:15 UTC 7 years ago