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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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Michael Lewis
Elizabeth Findley
, May 17, 2021
Prepare yourself to be outraged all over again about how the COVID-19 pandemic was (mis)handled, at basically every governmental level. Lewis's latest book examines pandemic response via two people deeply entrenched in the public health world, and how they became who they are and applied (or tried to) their ingenuity to the COVID threat as it emerged. Lewis looks too at the history of the CDC and how a chain of events led to its pandemic response. Worth reading, certainly, but I found myself saying "too soon" a few times as I read, since we are still embroiled in the messy aftermath of decisions made early on as the pandemic unfolded.
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Maddaddam Trilogy Box Oryx & Crake The Year of the Flood Maddaddam
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Margaret Atwood
Elizabeth Findley
, February 19, 2014
I didn't know I liked post-apocalyptic dystopian literature until I read Oryx & Crake, and each book of this trilogy is better than the last. Atwood's characters are funny and sad and a adrift in this strange--but also oddly familiar-- world of all-powerful corporations, genetically engineered animals and bizarre religions. The books are a cautionary tale about what might become of us if we stay on our current path. But they're also about powerful universal themes, like unrequited love, friendship and finding your place in the world, however strange that world might look.
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Battleborn Stories
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Claire Vaye Watkins
Elizabeth Findley
, February 17, 2014
I've read this book twice already, and it's both haunting and funny and captures the wide-open desolation and beauty of the desert and the sparsely populated towns in it. The voice is so real, but just dark enough that you identify with it. Favorite recent work of short stories, hands down.
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