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[dreadfulpenny]

At the end of a particularly engaging book (or series of books) I always flail around for a little while. I feel a bit strange and disconnected. This is where I am right now. It's a strange, fish-out-of-water sort of feeling. Often, I linger over the last few pages of a book if I know that it's the very end. I don't want to leave whatever fictional vacation spot that I've been inhabiting, so I just...don't. I don't finish, I leave the end of the book for months at a time sometimes. I didn't do that this time.

So anyway, no more Newsflesh right now. A piece of me is still lingering in the post-Rising world, as horrifying as it was there.

Off to see Rock of Ages, ta!

Comments

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Sounds like it was a winner for you, yay!

Have you tackled the COUNTDOWN novella yet? It's a nice little prequel. :)

[dreamsrundeep.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that it makes me so happy that you are still around the LJ, Devilwrites? ;)

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I am! I'm actually far more active over at my book blog, calico_reaction. :)

[dreamsrundeep.livejournal.com]

I totally do this!

Sometimes I even have a mourning period wherein I wonder what the characters might be doing *now* or where I'm just missing them. I really kind of like it when that happens even though it feels like I'm missing a limb. It means I totally loved/lived that book!

[dreamsrundeep.livejournal.com]

By the way - what book left you that way? I'd like to add it to my reading list!

[emerald-ibis.livejournal.com]

It was the final book in Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy! The entire thing is amazingly addictive. Book 1 is Feed. They're a lovely hybrid of horror, political thriller and science fiction. There's a healthy dose of snark and sarcasm hidden amongst the zombies as well. If you like urban fantasy without a lot of romance, check out her books written under her own name, Seanan McGuire.