Made it.
I am re-reading THE PASSAGE by Justin Cronin. 1st of trilogy.
Special Agent Brad Wolgast is charged with a mission: to bring twelve death-row inmates to the Colorado facility where, in exchange for the commutation of their sentences, they will be injected with an experimental virus. Withheld from him is the dark secret of Project Noah and its author, Jonas Lear. Lear believes that the virus, taken from a rare species of South American bat, is the source of the vampire legend. Through its interaction with the immune system, it has the power to fight virtually all diseases and radically lengthen the human life-span—a matter of great interest to the military, which hopes to use it to create a force of super soldiers. But the virus transforms the inmates into twelve monsters of incredible strength and psychic power, hungry for blood. There is a thirteenth test subject: a six-year-old girl, named Amy, but unlike them she remains otherwise unchanged. When the Twelve break free, unleashing death and destruction upon the North American continent, Wolgast rescues Amy. Nearly a century later, North America is unrecognizable, a wasteland. Forty million infected humans, known as virals, stalk the continent. In a fortified mountain compound in Southern California, a handful of human survivors—descendants of children evacuated in the last days of the epidemic. The life-saving lights that protect the Colony are dimming as the batteries that power them lose their charge. From out of the wilderness, someone new appears, a teenage girl. A computer chip embedded in her neck reveals part of the story: Her name is Amy, and she is almost a hundred years old. As a political crisis envelops First Colony, the group and a handful of others set out from the protection of the city walls to undertake an odyssey across the viral-infested wasteland. Their destination is the Project Noah site in Colorado—where, they hope, they might learn a way to defeat the virals.
I don't know how they're going to accomplish it. I watched the first episode and of course they've already made big changes in order to accommodate the format and PC-ness. It wasn't horrible.... yet. But because of viewing it, I wanted to re-read the book. To see how it held up to my memory of it.
On TV Sunday, Outlander "Providence":
Brianna confronts a violent figure from her past in an attempt to cope with her trauma. Roger befriends a fellow captive and endeavors to escape the Mohawk Village, while Fergus and Marsali plan a dangerous mission to save an old friend from the nooseAnd that's it. No NCIS Los Angeles this weekend. We will probably watch some more playoff football. I guess I'm for New Orleans now.
No plans for me this weekend. Steve has a gun tournament to run. I'd like to get back to working on my book.
I was doing ok for most of the day but now I've got a tired-cranky-kid feeling.
Have a good weekend
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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