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hpldreads · 8 months

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Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is a branch of literature that deals with the effects of climate change on human society. Here are a few of the Climate Fiction books we have in our collection.

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Life as We Knew It by Beth Pfeffer

#climate fiction #cli-fi #oryx and crake #dry #life as we knew it

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demadogs · 1 year

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the life as we knew it book series deserved movie adaptations and im still upset they dont exist

#thinking about all my favorite space related scifi stories rn #these books are so fucking good GOD #A METEOR HITTING THE MOON MAKING IT MUCH CLOSER TO EARTH CAUSING NATURAL CATASTROPHES EVERYWHERE???? WHY DIDNT THEY MAKE THAT A MOVIE #life as we knew it #thats not even an auto tag :((

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annmariemo · 2 months

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#bookworm #book review #spotify #playlist #book soundtrack’s #february book #book 2 #life as we knew it #susan beth pfeffer #Spotify

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el-oh-her · 1 year

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#reading #bookblr #writeblr #color pallet #color #the world we live in #life as we knew it #the dead and the gone

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energeticadrianz · 8 months

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IAM SO FIXATED ON LIFE AS WE KNEW IT me trying not to info dump abt it like everyday

#life as we knew it #lawki #books

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arctic-hands · 1 year

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Fucking covid ruined my favorite genre for me

#apocalyptic fiction #i had Nick Sagan's Edenborn on my shelf for a while and finally decided to read it a few months ago #turns out it's about a plague #found out one of my favorite series as a teenager #life as we knew it #released a third novel at some point without my knowing #couldn't get thru the first third #haven't been able to concentrate on a game of fallout in years not even new Vegas #there are other examples those are just my most bitter

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nevinslibrary · 2 years

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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

Oof… now I can’t look at the moon in quite the same way. In this novel the moon is knocked closer to the Earth by a meteor, and suddenly, the world is forever changed, coasts cease to exist in their previous places, there are earthquakes upon earthquakes, not to mention the volcanic ash that is blocking out the sun.

It’s the story of Melinda, a sixteen year old, told through journal entries. How she and her family (two brothers and their Mom) try to survive it all in Pennsylvania as the apocalypse seems to slowly inch towards them.

It was an interesting and different take on dystopia and on apocalypse. So often in the dystopian novels it is totally catastrophic right at the beginning and then there’s the ‘aftermath’, but, in this, it’s more like a slow decline.

You may like this book If you Liked: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach, Tumble & Fal by Alexandra Coutts, or Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

#weirdandwonderfulwednesday #nmlRA #nevins memorial library #life as we knew it #susan beth pfeffer

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rjalker · 2 years

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I said it before but I'm saying it again:

It is exactly fucking typical for the author, who thinks humans are inherently selfish and violent creatures who never help anyone out of the kindness of their hearts, to go "well, this kid had had people helping him out of the kindness of their hearts, so to show why that's wrong, because you should never help anyone, he's a bigoted, classist, self-entitled rapist now, because that's what happens when you help people"

it is so fucking typical. Of course that's what she thinks happens when you're kind to people. Of fucking course.

#insert the smoking man meme here #Life As We Knew It #Susan Beth Pfeffer #is a shit writer and a shit person #rape mention #ask to tag #what do I fucking call this #besides #conservatism #what do you fucking call this stupid as fuck mindset

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editorauthoranna · 2 years

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THE LAST SURVIVORS: THE DEAD AND THE GONE (Book 2) Review

The Dead and the Gone

By Susan Beth Pfeffer

So far, The Dead and the Gone is my favorite of the Life as We Knew It series. It was marketed as a companion book, but I feel it surpasses the original story Pfeffer wrote. Remember when I compared Life as We Knew It to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road? I take it back; this book is much more similar—but still for a younger audience.

The Dead and the Gone features the same premise as Life as We Knew It, but there are some big changes that have a powerful pull: the setting is New York City, a place which suffers immediate, direct, and deadly consequences after the moon disaster. Your narrator is still a teenager—Alex, a boy this time. However, he suddenly finds himself alone with two younger sisters to care for. Alex is constantly pitted against morality versus survival. What is he willing to do to survive in a city ravaged by tragedy with no help coming? The stakes in The Dead and the Gone are much, much higher.

Religion comes back full force in The Dead and the Gone. This time, it’s devout Catholicism. It fits into the story pretty well as Alex and his family are all of Puerto Rican descent. (The majority of Puerto Rico identifies as Catholic.) While religion of any type isn’t necessary to wrestle with morality, I do think Catholicism was a good choice to frame the story from. The three characters we see the most in The Dead and the Gone are each Catholic, but one is extremely devout, one is somewhere in the middle, and one struggles with their faith. (You can find out who’s who if you read the book!) The good framework comes from the dependencies and concessions Alex is shown to have with the church, confession, and education. Science versus religion isn’t really a problem in this book.

There are, of course, some plot points that I wish had been better formed. One point was why Alex didn’t break into more homes—because he does enter other people’s deserted homes to search for food, blankets, and items to trade. After months, Alex knows with something very close to certainty that he and his sisters are alone in their apartment building. Yes, yes, stealing is wrong, and that does come up, but possible starvation should overrule the fear of being found out when 90% of New York City has already been looted for the food sources it may be hiding.

Another was the fact a few schools stayed open under the pretense of education when it was really to feed the few kids left some lunch. I’m not saying this was a bad thing, but in a major United States city that’s been flooded, has no power, and millions of people living in it with no food trucks coming in and a single, weekly government handout that is unreliable and dangerous to be in line for—how do these two little schools find the resources to feed twenty or so kids lunch every day for months? Are adults starving so the children can eat? I’d believe it, but the answer the book gives us was no less than an unsatisfactory, “The church provides” or “God provides.” Annoying explanation, to be frank. Not actually an explanation at all.

That said, The Dead and the Gone still functions as a great book. It’s heart-wrenching, and can be scary, and, fantastical apocalypse aside, quite realistic in its portrayal of a broken humanity.

There’s two more books in this series, and I’m very curious about where Pfeffer plans to go next. Personally, I’m hoping for a continuation of events as the first two books quite thoroughly covered the immediate consequences of the moon disaster. Fingers crossed! Next up: This World We Live In.

~ Anna

#book review #science fiction #dystopian #YA fiction #susan beth pfeffer #the dead and the gone #the last survivors #life as we knew it #books #writing

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alley-cat777 · 2 years

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Book Review: Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors #1) by: Susan Beth Pfeffer

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s would still be open.Life As We Knew It by: Susan Beth Pfeffer Initial Thoughts: I found this book for sale at a book sale. It was among 25 other books that I bought at that time. Fill a box for $10. Not a bad price at all. However, when you buy so many books at once, suddenly you realize that 1) you lack the space on your…

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#Book #Book Blog #Book Blogger #Book Review #books #Fiction #Last Survivors #Life As We Knew It #novel #review #Susan Beth Pfeffer #Young adult

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fandom-madness69 · 7 months

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I'm in the mood to talk about book series that rocked your whole world. And yeah the books we all grew up reading are fine but I wanna know about other books. Like the Life As We Knew It series where a massive asteroid knocks the Moon so close to Earth it looks like those super moon pics we've all seen but always, all the time, even during the day. The moon was always visible after that asteroid. It brought about an apocalypse of sorts. The main character is a teenager. That series is the reason why three book hating jocks I went to school with became avid readers.

What book or book series rocked your world and why?

#books #life as we knew it #book series #book talks #book tumblr

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hpldreads · 1 year

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There's something very interesting about reading a story through diary entries. It feels so much more personal, like you're being let in on a secret. Here are a few young adult books that are in diary format.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

#Perks of being a wallflower #life as we knew it

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hychlorions · 26 days

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a what-if i've been thinking about for forever... trucy knowing the truth before anyone could tell her

#trucy wright #apollo justice #ace attorney #.png #ough ough ough how many times has she helped 'ruin' someone's life...#like what if when she was so desperate to help phoenix get acquitted she gets hit in the face with the realization that #she might just be ruining her new-found brother's life too #so yeah. how would she even bring that up #haha hey polly. remember that time i handed you fake evidence. well did you know i saw your bracelet and remembered my mom had one too. fun #by the way did you know she told me she had two and gave one to her first-born who she lost a long time ago #like do we know how much trucy remembers about their mom. no! that's why i think this could work #ough i've wanted to make this comic for so long but i never knew how to format it #well i drew the first panel as warm-up and then was like. why not go all the way....#that way i'd be forced to really think about composition

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annmariemo · 2 months

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Final Thoughts

I really enjoyed this book. It was written like a journal and that thoroughly appealed to me. Since I also journal it gave me a way to connect with the main character Miranda. That connection is what kept me interested and eager to continue reading.

I loved how all the characters went through an evolution of who they were before everything began to how there experiences now molded who they became. There was a tone and a few lines in the beginning of the book that rubbed me the wrong way but I am glad that I didn't let that sour the whole book for me and I continued to read.

I am going to rate this book 3 out of 5 apples. It was a very intriguing book and it was also very well written. There were a few things that urked me but I was able to look past them. This is the first book in a series of four and I can't wait to read the other three and see how the story continues to progress. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read YA or end of the world type books.

#book club #bookworm #book review #February book two #february book #February 2024 #2024 reading challenge #reading goals #book lover #end of the world #life as we knew it #Susan Beth Pfeffer

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dykealloy · 4 months

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