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Two non-fiction books about death: one very serious, one much less so

Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

December 9, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(4 stars) Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston My best friend and I were obsessed with The Hot Zone in high school. I wrote a damn book report on it at one point. The combination of the horror of the disease and the power of the science fighting it struck a chord with us (more so with her maybe — she’s a scientist now!) and we continued reading books […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Caitlin Doughty, Richard Preston

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:235 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Caitlin Doughty, Richard Preston ·
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“When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying.”

September 27, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

THIS is how you write gripping medical related non-fiction! Part medical mystery, part horror story and 100% true. While it wasn’t the barrel of laughs Get Well Soon was earlier this year it was infinitely more entertaining than Pox, despite scaring me shitless about ever going to Africa or getting close to a monkey. This isn’t a book for everyone because, well, Ebola is creepy. Even now there isn’t a surefire cure and the path to death is a gruesome, bloody mess. The term “liquefied” is used several […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ebola, Richard Preston, The Hot Zone

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:100 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ebola, Richard Preston, The Hot Zone ·
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