Zone One
Colson Whitehead (Knopf Doubleday)
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Genre: Horror, Zombies
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Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.
Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.
And then things start to go wrong.
Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. (Goodreads)
I’ve Got Your Number
Sophie Kinsella (Bantam Press)
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Genre: Chick-Lit
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The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive 
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Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life.
What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents . . . she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life. (Goodreads)
Teresa Medeiros (Gallery)
Publication Date: December 2010
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, “MarkBaynard”—a quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical—Abby finds it easy to put words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in her apartment staring at her TweetDeck and fretting about her stalled career when Mark is out there traveling the world and living?
Or is he? (Goodreads)
Sleeping With The Wolf (After The Crash #1)
Maddy Barone (Create Space)
Publication Date: August 2011
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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16 Comments
I've Got Your Number is on my list too!!
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I rarely read chick lit, but the Sophie Kinsella book looks really cute.
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I actually think Zone One has quite a different approach to the post-apocalypse world. I can't think of many other books that focus on the reclaiming of the world after it has fallen – I'm definitely intrigued! Although you're right that cover is very bland!
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I love Sophie's writing…might have to add that one to my list! Thanks
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You have such great looking books on your wishlist this week. I think my wishlist just grew by 3 or 4, lol.
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I have to say…that I really love the cover of Sleeping with the Wolf!
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Oh I have Zone One on my review list! I hope it's good. I need to read a Sophie book. I've heard such good things about them!
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I haven't heard of Sleeping with the Wolf before, but it sounds fabulous! Hot cover as well!
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the linky will not work 4 me keeps saying '' link url must begin with 'http://':
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http://roroisreading.blogspot......ist-6.html
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stupid me put the url in the name slot and the nbame in the url slod, duh
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I didn't know about Sophie's new book!
Will look forward to it =)
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Goodnight Tweetheart sounds really intriguing, I dont usually read books like that but I'd give that one a go!
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I just love Teresa Medeiros, but I haven't read the tweet novel yet, hope you enjoy it when you get it!
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Zone One sounds like a great new take on Zombies!
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I really liked Goodnight Tweetheart. It's a super quick read, but very good!
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Definitely intrigued by Goodnight Tweetheart. I haven't come across this author before, but as someone slogging through learning all this stuff myself, I definitely can sympathize with Abigail!
Sounds like a fun read!
Smiles!
Lori
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