Tome Time discussion

Read to the end of chapter 12 by 13/07/20.

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Started early on this one, what with having the week off work. Melanie's early chapters, especially when Dr Caldwell's chapters explained what was actually going on, reminded me ever so slightly of 'Never Let Me Go'. But with zombies. Also getting more than a hint of John Wyndham though that might just be that all post-apocalyptic fiction reminds me of John Wyndham a bit.

Of course, because I've seen the film, I know the Beacon is doomed, but I can't actually remember exactly what happens after that. Quite like the way that nobody is exactly a villain - what Dr Caldwell and Sgt. Parks are doing makes perfect sense from their own perspective.

Can't let the line "made balloon animals out of their colons" go entirely unremarked either.

I’m just starting on my lunch and there’s a line that says her base is in region 6, with London 30 miles to the south. I always knew my hometown was an apocalypse! 🤣

Omg I just got to that bit about the balloon animals and even though I read your comment earlier I was still going wide eyed. Oh this is how you write a book! I love how much depth the characters had straight off the bat, despite being retained inside a really small environment, they come off as believable.

I couldn’t stop thinking of this snail’s horror fest though, when they went through the David Attenborough segment on how spores burst through ants from the top of trees to have a better distribution range:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/...

Pardon me while I go and mentally scrub my brain to get rid of that image. 🥺😬😭😳

Karen wrote: "I couldn’t stop thinking of this snail’s horror fest though, when they went through the David Attenborough segment on how spores burst through ants from the top of trees to have a better distribution range"

I see your zombie snails and raise you parasitic wasps: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/body-s...

I'm enjoying this anyway - a bit more easy-reading than the 600 page history book I'm working my way through at the same time...

Well...I’m not sleeping now! 🥺🥺🥺