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Books of 2013

15. Zombiecorns - John Green

Read from January 27 to March 1

(From novella introduction)

Dearest Reader,
This is a bad zombie apocalypse novella. It was written in a hurry. It is riddled with inconsistencies. And it never quite arrives at whatever point it sought to make. But remember: The $25 you donated to charity in exchange for this steaming mess of prose will help our species shuffle along, and I hope you’ll feel warmed by your good deed as you read. Thank you for decreasing the overall worldwide level of suck, and as they say in my hometown: Don’t forget to be awesome.

Best wishes!
John Green

The book has been made available under creative commons license, so it can be acquired legally here: http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/post/2…:)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10268370-zombicorns

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Books of 2013

7. The Sequel - John Green

Read in January

The first section of John Green’s unfinished, abandoned novel THE SEQUEL, which is a sequel to a novel that doesn’t exist called THE ODD AT SEA. About the story, John says “THE SEQUEL contains a lot of the ideas that ended up in THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, although it’s a very different kind of story. I worked on THE SEQUEL between 2008 and 2010 before finally putting it aside. There is of course a REASON why I abandoned it: It isn’t very good. But it has some moments I still like, and I’m hoping seeing a draft like this will provide a window into one writer’s process. And of course I want to raise some money for the HPA!” 

THE SEQUEL is the story of a young woman named Hannah al-Hajji who finds herself alone in the world after the novel in which she is a character ends. Everyone else in the novel disappears, but she for some reason is left with us. The story costars a young student chaplain, recently graduated from college, who happens to have read the novel that Hannah was a minor character in. The selection is 6,437 words long.

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