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Happiness and Sunshine in the Zombie Apocalypse Author: David Wellington Finn has lived his life safe from the aftereffects of the zombie apocalypse. The surviving parts of the world are hunkered into fortified home bases. His home base is in New York, where he regularly listens to the paranoid older generation tell stories of horror and helps fish in the Subway tunnels, wondering what they must have looked like before. He is protected. He is happy. He, like the others his age, makes fun of the older generations, many of whom are too terrified to leave their skyrises. That’s until Finn [...]

Zone One, you’re killing me.

Thanks to the random and unpredictable nature of library holds, there's a feast-or-famine aspect to my stack of to-read books. If a half-dozen of them get dumped into my lap at once — all with the same due date — some difficult choices must be made. Fortunately/unfortunately, Colson Whitehead's Zone One is making the decision easier for me, with his "thinking man's zombie novel" that clearly proves I am not a thinking man. Sample sentence: "The youngest [zombie] wore its hair in a style popularized by a sitcom that took as its subject three roommates of seemingly immiscible temperaments and [...]