What I Read

 I had originally titled this post, "Books I Wish I'd Written", but as I thought about it, while there were certain concepts and lines I really admired and wished I had thought of, I know I wouldn't have and  it wouldn't be the same.

 The books I am completely fangirling over right now are Warm Bodies and its prequel, The New Hunger by Isaac Marion. Now I don't like creepy stuff- ghosts, aliens, zombies, dead things, etc. but I saw the beginning of the movie off IMDb and I was compelled to look up the book. I was hooked from the start. I can't remember the last time I spent so much time reading, and those anticipatory moments when I couldn't wait to get back to reading. It's a really lovely story, crazy but real, improbable but not impossible, a hopeful apocalypse.

 Lucky for me being so late in the game, Marion announced the prequel was coming out less than a week after I finished Warm Bodies. I put off reading it because I was so into the world he had created and the characters that I didn't want to be thrown back before any of them interacted and were not yet the people they were in the main book, but I was wrong. By going back before they were in their little bubbles we see a rounder world and a deeper understanding of what's happened and knowing certain people were going to "make it to the end" didn't ruin the suspense. Just loved it.

 Now my problem is I know only one other person who has read both, and one who has read just Warm Bodies so far and I am dying to talk about what happened, compare it to the movie, which I saw 5 times in various theaters but still wasn't as good as the book, and speculate on what the sequel can contain.

Please check out Isaac Marion's site. He's not just a writer, he's an artist and a musician and seemly pretty cool guy. He's kind of what I want to be when I grow up even though I'm older than him (but not by much damnit).