No Safety in Numbers in all about epidemics and spreading disease and people dying via a virus, so I figured I would give you some other great books that are based on viruses. It's not really sometimes we read a lot of in this blog, so you're going to get some stuff we haven't see before!
The Birtchbark House is one that I read in college and is probably one of the best Native American literature books I've read. Right up there with The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. It follows the year of a Native American family in 1847. We see them building their summer home, dealing with preparations of the winter and all of it is told through the eyes of Omakayas.
So why do I recommend this for an epidemic book? Well, there is a huge smallpox outbreak and there is a large part of the book where Omakayas is dealing with not only her own sickness, but the sickness of her family and tribe members. It's moving and heart-wrenching and just pretty much wonderful.
Ok, so this was a book I won a REALLY long time ago off of Goodreads as an ARC. And, to be honest, the book does get a LITTLE over the top with all the things that happen to this family (seriously. Everything that could go wrong, does.) However, the book is about a massive outbreak of bird flu during a snowstorm. The family lives in the mid-north west, (where the snowstorm hits), but the Bird flu hits the whole nation and lasts for years.
Even though the story line for the family is a little crazy, I do have to admit that Buckley is REALLY good at writing panic. I FELT panicked reading this book. I mean, really freaked out while reading it. Definitely worth picking up if epidemics are your thing.
Who doesn't love a good parasitic alien is taking over the world novel? That's what I thought. I put this on the list because, while as the reader you know that it's an alien life form, the society as a whole doesn't. They take over these bodies and infect them and drive them crazy and then completely disintegrate them so that no one has any idea what is causing all of this to happen. As a reader, we only know because we're watching it happen first hand to one of the characters.
While I DO love this book and it's immensely well done, read it with caution. Sigler is INCREDIBLY graphic. I have a particularly high tolerance for things and there were even times that it was a little much for me. So, if you're especially grossed out by things, he may not be the one for you. If not, definitely pick him up.
So why do I recommend this for an epidemic book? Well, there is a huge smallpox outbreak and there is a large part of the book where Omakayas is dealing with not only her own sickness, but the sickness of her family and tribe members. It's moving and heart-wrenching and just pretty much wonderful.
Ok, so this was a book I won a REALLY long time ago off of Goodreads as an ARC. And, to be honest, the book does get a LITTLE over the top with all the things that happen to this family (seriously. Everything that could go wrong, does.) However, the book is about a massive outbreak of bird flu during a snowstorm. The family lives in the mid-north west, (where the snowstorm hits), but the Bird flu hits the whole nation and lasts for years.
Even though the story line for the family is a little crazy, I do have to admit that Buckley is REALLY good at writing panic. I FELT panicked reading this book. I mean, really freaked out while reading it. Definitely worth picking up if epidemics are your thing.
Who doesn't love a good parasitic alien is taking over the world novel? That's what I thought. I put this on the list because, while as the reader you know that it's an alien life form, the society as a whole doesn't. They take over these bodies and infect them and drive them crazy and then completely disintegrate them so that no one has any idea what is causing all of this to happen. As a reader, we only know because we're watching it happen first hand to one of the characters.
While I DO love this book and it's immensely well done, read it with caution. Sigler is INCREDIBLY graphic. I have a particularly high tolerance for things and there were even times that it was a little much for me. So, if you're especially grossed out by things, he may not be the one for you. If not, definitely pick him up.
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