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Fiction

SheilaT

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27. The Dog Stars

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 04:24 PM

Mar 2013

by Peter Heller.

A post apocalypse novel. Almost everyone (above 99%) was killed by a flu about a decade before the novel starts, and many of the survivors have some kind of blood disease that will kill them. I'm only 50 pages in, and so far it's mainly about the loneliness of surviving.

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What are you reading the week of March 10, 2013? [View all] DUgosh Mar 2013 OP

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