During my first nine months on law school, the main activity I did was read, read, and read some more.
Now that it's summer, I find myself reading even more. I just finished a book and I'm in the middle of three others.
I just finished Monster Island by David Wellington. It's the story of survivors of a zombie apocalypse who go to New York City to get some hard-to-find AIDS medicine and not only encounter zombies, but one very powerful zombie. I liked the book for a couple of reasons. The format was interesting, as every chapter switched from the survivors point of view to the powerful zombies' point of view. The story is also more than people trying to survive--its about a diverse group of people (Africans) trying to accomplish something. If you like Zombies, it's a great read.
I also just finished reading the sixth volume in the graphic novel series, The Walking Dead. It's the story of survivors of a zombie apocalypse and by far one of the best representations of what could really happen when zombies take over. Instead of a short story with the humans triumphing at the end, The Walking Dead is a continuing story. It shows the changes in the characters from normal people to undead warriors and makes a commentary on social behavior the entire time. Plus, I really like the format of the graphic novel. I really hope this series gets made into a TV series because there is so much that could be done with it. It would be like an undead "Lost."
You may be asking if I only read Zombie fiction/non-fiction, and I do. But I love everything zombies! I used to hate reading fiction and only read non-fiction because I wanted to "enrich" myself. But one day (literally one day because I couldn't put it down), I read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and I've been reading fiction ever since.
I'm in the middle of Blindness by Jose Saramago (about the entire world going blind due to an unexplainable disease) and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley (about human instinct and disaster response and the psychology of fear).
In writing this post, I just realized something. All the books I've read or I'm reading deal with a disaster of some sort. I'll have to write another post analyzing that subconscious (or conscious?) decision.
