My housemate just finished reading Feed on my recommendation, and she LOVED it. She wanted to know why I hadn't described it as "post-apocalyptic investigative reporter." Kathleen is a reporter for a locally-owned newspaper, and dearly wants to be an investigative reporter for one of the big papers one day.
She tells me she got to about page 50, and set it aside for work and real life, etc. When she picked it up again, she had every intention of reading for a little while, then watching the episode of Castle my husband and I recorded for her, and turning in.
She couldn't put it down.
She finally got to a tense, scary scene, where the characters are surrounded by zombies and it's looking grim and she's dying to hear they survive. ("Right before George wakes up in the CDC," she told me, and I nodded knowingly.)
At that very moment, the house is plunged in darkness. Her first thought is, Oh no, they've cut the power so they can get me! Josh and I are safely asleep upstairs, where we might as well not even be in the same house. And she has to grope her way through the scary darkness where there might be a zombie or a few dozen lurking in wait for her, and the only light she has is from her iPhone.
She manages to find her way to her room in pitch darkness, hides under the covers, and eventually convinces herself that it was just an ordinary power outage due to all the rain we've been getting, that there isn't a zombie hiding in the darkness, and that this is just silly.
Of course she picks it up again as soon as she's awake, and of course she skips her pre-work nap to finish it. And of course the ending made her cry, and the first thing she did upon finishing it was text me to ask me when Deadline comes out.
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Date: 2010-10-02 12:37 am (UTC)She tells me she got to about page 50, and set it aside for work and real life, etc. When she picked it up again, she had every intention of reading for a little while, then watching the episode of Castle my husband and I recorded for her, and turning in.
She couldn't put it down.
She finally got to a tense, scary scene, where the characters are surrounded by zombies and it's looking grim and she's dying to hear they survive. ("Right before George wakes up in the CDC," she told me, and I nodded knowingly.)
At that very moment, the house is plunged in darkness. Her first thought is, Oh no, they've cut the power so they can get me! Josh and I are safely asleep upstairs, where we might as well not even be in the same house. And she has to grope her way through the scary darkness where there might be a zombie or a few dozen lurking in wait for her, and the only light she has is from her iPhone.
She manages to find her way to her room in pitch darkness, hides under the covers, and eventually convinces herself that it was just an ordinary power outage due to all the rain we've been getting, that there isn't a zombie hiding in the darkness, and that this is just silly.
Of course she picks it up again as soon as she's awake, and of course she skips her pre-work nap to finish it. And of course the ending made her cry, and the first thing she did upon finishing it was text me to ask me when Deadline comes out.