The Cemetery of Forgotten Books Challenge.

As an addition to (and inspired by) Libraryofmind’s Conquer the Lurker Challenge in which I will be reading one chapter of A Dance with Dragons a day in order to try to finish it already, I am going to be picking a book from my unread shelf every week that has been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read for several months or more. Perhaps you are like me and you have several books that you keep meaning to get to it but never do. I’m hoping to change that in 2012. Every Monday I will make a post saying what book from my shelf I’d like to tackle for the week. You’re welcome to join in. You can list your book as a response to my post or make a post in your own blog.

My pick from the cemetery this week:

“In 2014, two experimental viruses—a genetically engineered flu strain designed by Dr. Alexander Kellis, intended to act as a cure for the common cold, and a cancer-killing strain of Marburg, known as “Marburg Amberlee”—escaped the lab and combined to form a single airborne pathogen that swept around the world in a matter of days. It cured cancer. It stopped a thousand cold and flu viruses in their tracks.

It raised the dead.

Millions died in the chaos that followed. The summer of 2014 was dubbed “The Rising,” and only the lessons learned from a thousand zombie movies allowed mankind to survive. Even then, the world was changed forever. The mainstream media fell, Internet news acquired an undeniable new legitimacy, and the CDC rose to a new level of power.

Set twenty years after the Rising, the Newsflesh trilogy follows a team of bloggers, led by Georgia and Shaun Mason, as they search for the brutal truths behind the infection. Danger, deceit, and betrayal lurk around every corner, as does the hardest question of them all:

When will you rise?”

I will be back next Monday to tell you if I accomplished my goal and select my choice for the next week’s forgotten book.