Posts Tagged "zombies"

Why are my lips coated with sugar? Because today is the official book birthday for Bad Taste in Boys by one of my good online friends, Carrie Harris. Carrie’s the fearless leader of the Class of 2K11 and her debut YA novel is made out of awesomeness and zombies and sugar lips. Happy (belated) book birthday to another good online friend and fellow Fluxian, Medeia Sharif whose debut Bestest. Ramadan. Ever. came out on Friday! Speaking of Fluxians, although Sirenz by Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman has been out for a little while, the big book birthday party is set for Thursday night, and since these sirens live so close to me (and there is the promise of cake) , I’m looking forward to attending their launch party in person. It’s a busy week...

What is it about the end of the world that makes for such good reading? The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan was recommended to me by a few different people whose book opinions I value, so I was pretty sure I was going to like this book even before I read the first page. I hesitate to describe this YA novel as a “zombie” book even though it is set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies, because the style of the book is so different from more traditional zombie books. It’s more of a really good post-apocalyptic novel that happens to have zombies in it. Okay, that description isn’t any good either. What it is is a really good book. Read it. I came a bit late to Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series, and only just read...

Thanks to Scott Myers’ Go Into The Story blog I learned about Emily Hagins, who at the age of 12 decided to make a feature-length zombie movie. The video above is actually a trailer for a documentary that was made of Emily and her movie making efforts. As it happens I too made some movies in my youth, but in terms of professionalism, Emily has me beat by a mile. With the help of my sister and, if they happened to be in town, my cousins, I made short little mostly plotless movies with some shaky camera work thanks to our clunky old camcorder. My cousin jokes that she can’t believe our classic Adventure in the Wilderness which begins with an unscripted as the “credits are rolling” (technically the credits were written in chalk on our...