In which trek mini-reviews

A few really funny bits from books along the way...

The Zombie Survival Guide,by Max Brooks was laugh out loud funny but more than that it was well-researched and the author clearly thought the scenarios through very carefully. I was impressed with how much attention Brooks spent on details.

On the very first page he effectively suspends disbelief by telling the reader that he is separating fact from fiction. Zombies are not created using black magic they are zombies because they were infected by the highly virulent Solanum virus which caused both their death and their reanimation as walking dead.

Inside these pages you learn the necessity for constant vigilance, good physical conditioning, and the double tap because, remember, "no place is safe, only safer."

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A ten-year-old boy is trying to gross out the protagonist on page 205 of Disaster Status,by Candace Calvert:

"'Chicken guts, liver, kidney?'
She rolled her eyes. 'Nurse?'"

Enough said.

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The amateur sleuth protagonist in Sweet Ginger Poison,by Robert Burton Robinson, is Virginia Lightley, known to all as Ginger, proprietress of Coreyville Coffee Cakes. Main character's name in the title of the book and in the name of one of the coffee cakes, I'm okay with that. I have to wonder, though, why the author had to come up with such lame names for some of the other characters: Navy Newcomb, Dan Foenapper.

I guess Robinson didn't know about this helpful site.