For the past three years, I have been obsessed with reading non-fiction tales of survival and more recently, post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature. You know, crazy stories of prison camp horrors or plants that mutate and begin eating humans, slowing and systematically taking over the world. It all started with
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. A friend lent me his copy and after finishing it, I frantically googled for more "tales of survival" involving arctic explorers. The story of
Shackleton really set me on the hunt for more, and a slow evolution from non-fiction to fiction occurred,
The Hunger Games pushing me towards fictional dystopian societies and the aftermath of the fall of civilization. If you're a wacko and are interested in being totally prepared for battling zombies or rogues of post-nuclear fallout survivors, check out the list of favorites to the left. You'll be fully armed with info on how to survive when everything else crumbles. Um, yay?
As opposed to a scary ending full of war, horrors and struggle,
Place provides a beautiful look at the last day of the world
. Okay after today, I promise to focus more on cute, cuddly Merwin and less on creepy things.
Place
W.S. Merwin
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree
what for
not for the fruit
the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted
I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time
with the sun already
going down
and the water
touching its roots
in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing
one by one
over its leaves
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