What I'm Reading Now
Happy Friday!
I hope you are having a great week. I am so excited for the weekend. It’s been a long week and I am really looking forward some fun things we have planned on the weekend!
The past few weeks I’ve been in a bit of a different routine when I get home from work. I just read for half an hour. I ignore the chores and I don’t start dinner or a load of laundry. I don’t turn on the tv, and I don’t even turn on the lights. I love this new routine because usually I read before bed, but I’ve been so tired by the time I go to bed that I just fall asleep. This way I still get some good reading in :)
Thursday after work I was reading on the couch, thinking about how I had to do the blog, and what book post I was going to write. And I have less than 100 pages left in the book I’m reading and it’s getting so good and I didn’t want to stop reading to write. So I decided to write about it!
What I’m reading now:
I’m 80% through One Second Away by William R. Forstchen. This was recommended by a blogger I follow. It sounded interesting so I thought I’d give it a try.
What it’s about:
In One Second After, New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real. A story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, that sends America back to the Dark Ages. A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) . . . that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. It has been discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warned could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future . . . and our end.
(from chapters.indigo.ca)
What I think so far:
This book is very though provoking. It’s kinda scary! I’d never even heard of an Electro Magnetic Pulse. What if this actually happened? How would we survive? What would I do on the other side of the world from everyoneI know? How fast would the world devolve? I am really enjoying this read. I don’t know if it’s because the book is that good, but I am really enjoying imagining if this was real and how it might play out. At first they just think it’s a power outage which is totally relatable - no phones or electronics, no big deal. Makes me a little worried about reading ebooks but I’d survive. But now they are talking about eating their dogs and I’m sorry, I’d starve lol. I can’t wait to read what happens next, but now I am a little worried because as I was writing this, I learned it’s the first book in a trilogy. Oh no.
Now excuse me… I have a book to finish!