Here at Book Zombie, I care a lot about books.
I work in a bookstore.
I work in a library.
I even have a degree in Creative Writing that has left me drowning in a bleak ocean of student loan debt.
But that hasn’t stopped me from filling my ridiculously tiny apartment with more books than I have time to read. It also hasn’t stopped me from spending my days off frequenting every bookstore in town or following another visiting author around at a local book-signing.
If nothing else, my workaholic, debt-consumed, anxiety-filled lifestyle has sent me spiraling farther and farther into the literary abyss where social obligations, family duty, and sanitary habits mean nothing.
In short, I will use this blog to talk about books I have read, authors I have stalked, and why I’m not already eternally content.
I am a big fan of anything with elements of fantasy, horror, or the just-plain-weird. I am obsessed with post-apocalyptic fiction or anything utopian/dystopian (I actually took a Utopian/Dystopian Literature course in college, which was completely awesome. It also helped that the professor took her students out for beer the last day of class.) I read a lot of teen books, but not so many non-fiction books unless they are books of poetry, books about writing, or books like Robert Hamburger’s Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book, Meghann Marco’s Field Guide to the Apocalypse: Movie Survival Skills For the End of the World, or Jack Handey’s Deep Thoughts.
Right now, I’m being bad and wishy-washy and going back and forth between several books at once. They are:
The Magic in the Mirrorstone edited by Steve Berman
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
Murder on the Rocks: A Gray Whale Inn Mystery by Karen MacInerney
The Apocalpyse Reader edited by Justin Taylor
Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
Stay tuned for more drama, more angst, and an actual book review.
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