Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Book: The First Days

The First Days (As The World Dies: A Zombie Trilogy #1)The First Days by Rhiannon Frater

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


As far as my experience with the zombie genre (does it get its own category now?) goes, this book represents my first experience with more than one female protagonist. In this case, they are 2 women from the Texas Hill Country, who by chance end up escaping the horrors of suburbia in the throes of a zombie outbreak together. The action is good, the central characters fairly well developed, and the picture of a world descending into madness fairly plausible. The First Days is the first in a trilogy, so the story arc leaves you hanging at the end. My main concern with the book involves the romantic plotlines -- I really home this series doesn't get all mushy. It takes away from the idea that women can be something in action/dystopian novels beyond victims and lovers.



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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Catching Up

OK, it's been too long since I've been on here, for book tallying purposes or otherwise. Summer in Louisiana is as draining as winter in Maine. The humidity and the heat just suck any energy or will right out of most people. (My beloved, meanwhile, gets chilly when the temps outside drop below 80.) Life has been somewhat busy, with money earning and health obtaining, not to mention hurricane avoiding and cat mending. I'm currently waiting to hear about the best opportunity to reenter Libraryland that I've had in 2 years. I've knitted a lot, and read a lot, but never enough of either.

Meanwhile, here's what I've read since I last checked in:

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, by Hanne Blank

Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, by Anna Reid

Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb, by Jim Ottaviani

Not surprisingly, all nonfiction. I'm sure I've read some fiction over the summer, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was at the moment. I'll have to go look at the shelves and see if anything looks familiar.