HYPED & TRENDY – READING IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC – HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK.

January 8, 2022 Mar

Well this is quite the book recommendation! It is not only a Hot New Release but also a Screen Adaptation and “Hyped & Trendy” recommendation!

Reading is a great form of escapism and during the Covid-19 pandemic difficult times, instead of uplifting stories, we may feel drawn to pandemic and other dystopian/apocalyptic stories; perhaps because we want to imagine ourselves or our heroes overcoming similar hardships.

What would we do in extraordinary circumstances? Could we survive a dystopian world?

If you find yourself in this reading mood, here are some recommendations to read or watch starting with hot, trendy, January 2022 hot new release How High We Go in the Dark!

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“Haunting and luminous, How High We Go in the Dark orchestrates its multitude of memorable voices into beautiful and lucid science fiction. An astonishing debut.” —Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta

“Epic . . . Sequoia Nagamatsu is a writer whose imagination is matched only by his compassion, the kind we need to light our way through the dark.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists.

Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • NBC News • Buzzfeed • Business Insider • Bustle • Goodreads • The Millions • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • PopSugar • Literary Hub • and many more!

For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice.

Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.

Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.

From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.

“Wondrous, and not just in the feats of imagination, which are so numerous it makes me dizzy to recall them, but also in the humanity and tenderness with which Sequoia Nagamatsu helps us navigate this landscape. . . . This is a truly amazing book, one to keep close as we imagine the uncertain future.” —Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

4.2 stars

**WHAT DOES A PANDEMIC REALLY MEAN TO HUMANKIND?**

CW(*): death, organ harvesting, euthanasia, and animal experimentation.

Did you love Station Eleven, the book and the show?

Are you now craving another character-driven literary dystopian?

Then this is the book for you!

You’ll love these slow-burn, character centered stories that explore the human dimension and the “what if”s of apocalyptic events.

What happens to our consciousness or our souls when we are in a coma or suspended animation?

What happens to us, humankind, deep down when faced with the possibility of the end of “life as we know it”? What are our deepest fears and how do we cope with them? What kind of people do we become? How far are we willing to go to survive?

Would you grow and harvest organs from animals if it meant to save your loved ones? Would you help your loved ones end their lives to end their suffering?

You most likely enjoy this book if you enjoy reading books of these categories: DYSTOPIA/APOCALYPTIC, FAMILY, LITERARY FICTION, METAFICTION, PHILOSOPHICAL, SCI-FI, SPECULATIVE FICTION, SURVIVAL