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I started reading apocalyptic fiction at a very young age. I have to admit that it had its effect on me: I like to be prepared. Add in some real life experience with blizzards and power outages. The result: a tendency to stockpile certain things. Now, don’t get me wrong – I don’t buy things that [...] On January 17, 2011 there is a new apocalyptic novel coming out. Named one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for January, 2012, The Flame Alphabetby Ben Marcus is certainly getting some attention. The premise is pretty straightforward: Society is is collapsing from a terrible pandemic, a toxic disease that kills adults exposed to the words [...] This is a meme that is making the rounds on LiveJournal: According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. Every so often, if you’re lucky, you come across a book that reminds you of everything you love about reading science fiction—and why you started reading it in the first place. Broken is one of those books. It has all these delicious elements: A dystopian world set in the future. A superhero who has lost her [...] As a long time fan of authors like Robin Cook and Michael Crichton, I LOVE medical thrillers. The more viruses, bacteria, plagues, and epidemics, the better, at least as far as I am concerned. Just mention etiological agents and I get really interested. So, I started reading The Patron Saint of Plagues with a lot of [...] If you happen to follow me on Twitter, you may remember a recent announcement that I was lucky enough to win a copy of Bill Shapiro’s Other People’s Rejection Letters. This is a hilarious collection of real rejection letters that range from the personal to the professional and everywhere in between. The book includes letters from Princeton, Playboy, The [...] Just recently, thanks to Twitter, I discovered the concept of book trailers. If you think about it, the idea of book trailers is pretty incongruous: using video trailers that you watch to promote books that you read. It’s like MTV for the literati. But they are really ubiquitous anymore. And like videos for music, sometimes, [...] Three Days to Dead It was one of those strange things: I saw this ad for Kelly Meding’s Three Days to Dead and I swear my spidey-sense started tingling. I just knew that this book was going to be great and that she was going to be an author who was really going to go places. Then [...] March 7 to March 13 is Read an e-book week. For more information about the event, including notices of free and discounted e-books, visit http://ebookweek.com/ What is an e-book reader? Also called an e-reader, it is a device specifically designed for reading electronic or digital books. These readers have screens made out of e-ink, or electronic [...] |
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