| 20th of August, '09 05:18 pm 1. Apocryphal Tales by Karel Čapek
2. The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? by Jan Zalasiewicz
3. Life As We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search For (and Synthesis of) Alien Life by Peter Ward
4. Deaf President Now!: The 1988 Revolution at Gaullaudet University by John B. Christensen and Sharon N. Barnartt
5. Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers
8. The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherin A. Liszt
9. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle
11. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer
12. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl by John Colapinto
13. Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs Edited by Jonathan Ames
14. Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden
15. Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female by Phyllis Burke
16. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
17. The Transgender Companion (Male to Female) by Jennifer Seeley
18. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serrano
19. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger
20. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul by Leslie Feinberg
21. I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan
22. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
World War Z is a collection of interviews with various survivors and veterans of the Zombie War, the great worldwide war against the zombie hordes. It was written a decade after Victory in China Day, considered the official end of major action, although there remain some zombies, who are still being eliminated as they are found. Through the stories told by the various interviewees, people from around the world, the horrors of the Zombie War are revealed, the disasters and the triumphs, from the US Army's catastrophic defeat at Yonkers and similar defeats by other nations, to the slow campaign to retake the world from the zombies, and stories from the continuing effort to eliminate the last of the zombies. Brooks describes the initial slow response to the zombies, the attempt to cover up the first major public outbreak, in South Africa, as "rabies" and the large-scale cover-up by the Chinese government, before it became impossible to conceal any longer.
The interviews are arranged chronologically, with stories from the earliest stages of the growing zombie threat at the beginning of the book, and the last clean-up at the end. He describes not only the horror of the zombie war, but also the ways humanity found to survive and fight back, the scarring of the land and the people from the global apocalypse, and the political changes as well, as in the Holy Empire of Russia and the rise of democracy in Cuba, after millions of refugees from the United States settled, temporarily, in Cuba, and brought with them democratic ideals that Castro could not suppress, especially not while simultaneously defending the nation from zombies.
It's an excellent book, a very unorthodox kind of horror, but a very engrossing one. Tell her what you think    |
