I have been reading a lot of books lately. Well, I guess not enough, because my Shelfari shelf says that since I have only read 34 books this year it puts me behind on my pace from last year. Good grief. Anyway, my books have had a theme lately. I started out with this book. It's about what happens when an asteroid hits the moon and pushes it closer to the earth and the ensuing meteorological consequences. It's a young adult book, so when I was done with it, I let Buttercup read it. I was so delighted to find it has a sequel. And then another sequel coming out in the next couple of months.
This is the first sequel. It's the same timeline, but the first book occurs to a teenager in fairly rural Pennsylvania and the second to a teenager in New York City. I was fascinated by the comparisons and contrasts between the experience of the asteroid for each teenager in different areas. There were a lot of things occured that seemed fairly plausible and it started me thinking about our church's views on being prepared. First, a 72 hour kit and then having progressively larger amounts of food storage, say a goal to have a month or 3 months, or ultimately, a year's supply of food. We have at least a 3 month's supply of stuff that we could eat. I know there are areas that I could step up on, especially water and canned meat.
Then I continued with this book. The last time I read Stephen King was back in high school when I was feeling rebellious. But this wasn't so much horror as more of Lord of the Flies for adults. Once again, it made me aware of how we would fare should our supplies be cut off. This one I can't freely recommend because Stephen King has a fondness for profanity. I am a speed reader, so I skip over stuff. If it starts annoying me it's got to be pretty bad.
Now I want to find more books like this, but I am not sure how to find semi post-apocalyptic books...if that's exactly what I am looking for, but I am not sure. I guess I will keep digging on Barnes and Noble.com. I do highly recommend the first two books. I know Buttercup is waiting for me to get my hands on the third so that she can read it too.
*update* apparently it's easier if you just type apocalyptic into the bn.com search engine...
4 comments:
Have you ever read "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank? You may like it. It talks about what may happen after a nulcear holocost in the US. Much like the show "Jericho" if you ever watched that. Anyway, it is one of our favorites, definitely jumpstarts a desire for food storage!:)
Those sound really good--I'll have to put them on my list!
Hey Liz, I got Alas, Babylon based on your recommendation, but I haven't started it yet. We started watching Jericho and I am not sure why we stopped (before they cancelled). Sometimes it's nice to have something besides church reminding us about food storage.
Liz, Alas, Babylon was great! I wrote down a few things to add to my years supply.
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