What are you reading the week of Sunday, October 5, 2014?

[SheilaT]

5. A History of the Future

by James Howard Kunstler. It's the third in a series called A World Made By Hand, which is also the title of the first book. They're set a few years in our own future, when civilization has broken down because of unending wars, a complete loss of gas/oil imports, and then a series of devastating diseases which killed lots of people.

The novels are set in a small town a north of Albany, NY. I mostly like the books. I think he's done a generally credible job of imagining what would happen once the decline as he sets it up takes full hold.

This is one of the books that, when I found out my library didn't yet have it, and put in the request that it be bought, was ordered in less than 24 hours and I was top of the list to check it out once it came in. What a great library.