#newsflesh

[leveragehunters]

Feed is on sale! For 2.99!

Amazon link.

This is a bloody incredible series, and it hits even harder now that we've experienced a full blown pandemic. It's takes place in a world where we won a zombie apocalypse, but I describe it as: "It's about zombies the same way Animal Farm is about pigs."

Seanan McGuire AKA Mira Grant gives an overview of the series in this fantastic interview (from 2012):

The basic concept behind the Newsflesh trilogy is that in 2014 the Zombie Apocalypse happened, and it took us about three years, but around 2017, 2018, we actually managed to win. A lot of people died, a lot of land was permanently ceded, but we came out on top. So 20 years pass, and you have an entire generation of people that’s grown up in a world where zombies just are. They’re not something special. They’re not something exciting. They just are. And people go on, people do what they do.

It also includes gems like:

I would call [the CDC] back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t … don’t do that.” And at that point, I knew I had a viable virus.

#seanan mcguire #mira grant #zombies #newsflesh #highly highly recommend #series and interview both #i took my own picture of the cover because I wasn't happy with any of the ones I found online [alt text in image] #Feed my beloved

[after-the-end-times2]

#mira grant #seanan mcguire #zombie fiction #zombies #post apocalyptic #apocalyptic #zombie apocalypse #feed #blackout #deadline #newsflesh #becks #Rebecca atherton #shaun mason #georgia mason

[pjo-obsessed-nerd]

sometimes valentines day really sucks lmfao i was talking to a guy 2 weeks ago, we made plans to go on a coffee date, and see a movie, and then he ghosted me. i had to go to dillons for my dad, running on 2 hours of sleep, already overstimulated, and walked into a crowd of 20 ppl all around the florist stall (which is directly in the way of our pharmacy, my destination), and then a guy came up and stood less than an inch from my back to reach for a flower that was behind my shoulder, so i started panicking. When i tried to leave, more people had come in so i literally could not get to the front doors without touching over 3 ppl at once. I literally ran out of the store crying because i was freaking out and people were staring at me. On top of that, we had no food at home that i can eat without making a fiver person meal, so i went hungry. i made brownies, burned the tops while simultaneously making the bottoms too liquidy to taste any good, let alone be safe to eat. when i went to vent to my mom, instead of being sympathetic and saying it would get better (what i needed/wanted to hear) she told me to stop bitching about it. For dinner, we had tortallini, which is normally amazing, but the tomato sauce literally made my mouth itch (Which is something i only experience when i eat citrusy foods, and im allergic to citrus, but this feeling was 10x worse), and my paycheck dropped just in time for me to get a meal from wendys before going to work on another 2 hours of sleep. The 3rd book of the series im reading (Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant, it's zombies, conspiracy, journalism, tiniest bit of romance but i would die for Shaun and Bekks to kiss just one more time, go check it out if that sounds cool to u) won't be here for another week after i finished the second one on a major cliffhanger, and i haven't written anything in nearly a month. the times tamps of my book says as much. Also, i'm single, all my friends have boyfriends or girlfriends, and every guy or girl i talk to ghosts me after learning i have adhd/am working on a autism diagnosis. that, and my friends are lowkey ignoring me. on valentines day of all days, so the one group of people i'm supposed to be able to talk to when my life gets shitty the same way they talk to me when their lives get shitty have just been ignoring me for like, a week. idk what to do, cus im torn between punching a wall and curling into a ball so tight that i just POP out of existence. Anyway, sorry for the rant. if you read this far, i appreciate and love you <3

#valentines day #today sucks #newsflesh #mira grant #failing as a writer? #single on valentines day #mental health #mental illness #mentally fucked

[bookfirstlinetourney]

Round 1

Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of a smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew well had all smelled distinctly.

-Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Something wants to eat you,” called Almost Brilliant from her perch in a nearby tree, “and I shall not be sorry if it does.”

-The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot--in this case my brother Shaun--deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

-Newsflesh, Mira Grant

#books #polls #reading #round 1 #tournament poll #americanah #chimamanda ngozi adichie #the empress of salt and fortune #nghi vo #newsflesh #mira grant

[wiltedartist]

I just really like Shaun and Georgia

#newsflesh #shawn mason #drafts #doodles

[indelibleevidence]

The only zombie game I would be genuinely excited to play is one based on Mira Grant's (@seananmcguire) Newsflesh series.

Zombie-killing sprees for ratings/diversion-causing missions as Sean and Becks, sneaky investigation of suspicious areas and reporting of government conspiracies with Georgia and Mahir, occasional decisions/minigames with your staff to help adjust your ratings, and it's game over if you get killed, or if your parents outrank you on the zombie apocalypse blog leaderboard.

Bonus points for a choice to run a smut contest for the Fictionals' side of the site, and an octopus wrangling with Dr. Abbey.

(This is Alaric erasure, I know. He just kind of has NPC energy.)

#i'm playing dead island 2 and it's decidedly meh #plus it's giving me eye strain liek whoa #mira grant #newsflesh #honestly this series has ruined me for other zombies #except maybe m.r. carey's hungries

[youvegotspiritkid]

I spent about 15.5 days with @seananmcguire books last year!

My first introduction to her was Feed, as Mira Grant, and the Newsflesh series has been my favourite since.

I spent last year discovering several of her series I hadn't read before, such as Incryptid, October Daye, & Wayward Children, and I've enjoyed them all. Strong, diverse, fun characters. Stories that encourage imagination, & are thought provoking. What's not to like love?!

A big thank you to Seanan for keeping me entertained. I look forward to re-reading and re-listening to all things while I impatiently wait for all the new stories to come in 2024 ❤

#books #seanan mcguire #audible wrappee #newsflesh #wayward children #incryptid #october daye #mira grant #reading #audiobook

[mego42]

I finally did it. I gathered the courage to read Deadline by Mira Grant years after Feed wrecked me emotionally. It's so good. I haven't finished it yet but I am glad i decided to give it a go.

oh my god I know right?????? I don’t want to say anything specific bc I don’t know where you are but that book is a series of sucker punches. I vividly remember just lying face down on my couch for awhile the first time I read it like I just cannot believe she (seanan) did???? that????? to me????????? Super cannot wait for you to get to the end, hahahaha. I hope you like it!!!!!

#everyone should read the newsflesh trilogy at least once #personally i like to read it a lot but to each their own #newsflesh #mira grant

[fishthegenderwitch-lurking]

I am chortling smugly, I have this book in my hot little hands and am going to devour it when I get home tonight

Finally, I'll get to read Mira Grant!

#mira grant #newsflesh #complete collection #seanan mcguire

[readtilyoudie]

After you’d been ground down for long enough, hope ceased to be the thing that got you through the day. Hope became the thing that got you killed.

All the Pretty Little Horses: A Newsflesh Novella by Mira Grant

#book quote #all the pretty little horses #newsflesh #mira grant #horror #zombies #scifi #science fiction #post apocalyptic #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr

[breath-of-fresh-eyre]

Book: Feed (Newsflesh #1)

Author: Mira Grant

Dates: Apr 2023 (finished ~3 days later)

Reread? Yes

Recommended By: Ananana, as being her favorite book

Notes: I don't think there's a single post-apocalypse book I like better. What if we survived the zombie outbreak? How did it change us? I love that you think it's a zombie book but it's, like, journalism and political thriller? With zombies.

#FEED #Mira Grant #Newsflesh #read2023 #reread

[dandydanja]

Sorry not sorry for the spam of reblogs about a book series that came out over a decade ago, it’s taken me a decade to get over my devastation from the first book and finish the damn thing

#newsflesh #feed #deadline #blackout #Mira grant #georgia mason #Shaun Mason

[mirthofbooks]

I’m a third of the way through this and SCREAMING

#newsflesh #currently reading #booklr #books #reading

[desertfangs]

"I believe that if I were any more exhausted, I would actually be dead, and I might regard that as blessing. "

- Mahir Gowda, who has damn good reasons to be that tired but is also relatable AF all the same - Deadline by Mira Grant

#deadline #mahir is always so relatable though i fucking love him #mahir gowda #newsflesh #mira grant #book quotes #look i figured out how to make quotes look big again #after the end times #quotes #how i feel most of the time these days idk

[after-the-end-times2]

#feed #mira grant #zombies #zombie fiction #deadline #blackout #newsflesh #steve irwin #shaun mason #georgia mason #after the end times #seanan mcguire #post apocalyptic #apocalyptic

[wiltedartist]

Me: newsflesh is fine

@seananmcguire :

me: *sighs and proceeds to hyperfixate*

#newsflesh #sad man #it’s a sad man who love his wife #I wanna draw all the breakdown moments lol #Mira grant #Shaun mason #newsflesh spoilers #fanart