Method Reading

I'm currently reading Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It, and every so often, I have to get up and remind myself that the world isn't actually ending. That there's internet, and air conditioning, and fresh food in the fridge. The world Pfeffer's extrapolated feels particularly, disturbingly real. Not melodramatic horror, but attrition with no end in sight. It's a high recommendation, but it may also be 'book-in-the-freezer' time.