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Book # 36 Dust

Since I couldn't get in to work today, because we got about 12 inches of snow last night, I read the book, Dust , by Joan Frances Turner. This book is about a girl who dies when she is fifteen, and is reborn as a zombie once she is buried. This book explores the science fiction world, and pushes the boundary of conventional thinking about life and death. Once Jessica, the main character, becomes a zombie, she is pulled into a nearby gang of zombies, and sets out to live the rest of her undead life in peace with friends. Although, this does not happen, the world turns upside down, and a new species takes over, and it's all that Jessica and her friends can do to survive something no one saw coming. Lately, I have been a lot like everyone else, getting into this new zombie phase, for example my favorite game is Nazi zombies from Call of Duty. This new phase just like vampires recently, has seeped into literature, movies, music, and so much more. I admit that when I read the dust...