What’s on my reading list this week? Quick Fall of Light by Sherrida Woodley!

It’s Monday, again!

Well, I’ve already forwarned many of you that I read just about everything and anything, and I’ve really switched up genres this week!  Starting today, Quick Fall of Light by Sherrida Woodley is on my reading list and I can’t wait to sink into a world that is filled with mystery!

Sherrida describes Quick Fall of Light as a work of speculative fiction, and her first published novel.  Over the past few months, her debut novel has become a multiple award winner; now, specifically, a “Silver” Award winner with ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year 2010 (Science Fiction).

The author states that she was “Intrigued, no obsessed, by the great flu epidemic of 1918, I wrote the novel, in part, because my grandmother survived it when so many died.  The subject of a pandemic now being explored in the movie, “Contagion,” has heightened public awareness, and the effect may be a preparedness I’ve hoped for since I wrote Quick Fall.”

Find out more about this fascinating author at: http://www.quickfalloflight.com/BIO.html

Quick Fall of Light is a novel of a bird flu pandemic, a woman and an “extinct” bird who are caught in its deadly approach, and the extraordinary relationship between them. The bird in the story is America‘s passenger pigeon, historically extinct for almost 100 years. Yet, in Quick Fall, a colony has been harbored safely and secretly for many years in the Olympic Rain Forest of Washington State. It is here where the story begins, and the mystery of the bird’s survival becomes the key to saving mankind. I’ve been told the premise is profound and moving with advance praise from writers and naturalists, including Sy Montgomery, Jeffrey Masson, and Rachel Carson‘s biographer, Linda Lear. Highly recommended for readers who’ve considered the probabilities of a biotechnical disaster up against the unpredictable turns of nature–this time a spellbinding bird. I hope you find it an interesting, inspiring read.

Pick up your copy at:  http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fall-Light-Sherrida-Woodley/dp/1936178184/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335651497&sr=8-1

Stay tuned for my review!

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