Summer reading from the Glogger (Guest Blogger): How’s your Emergency Preparedness Reading List?

Have you been working on getting through your summer reading list?

I was recently checking out the “card catalog” at my local branch of the library. So I was curious about fiction that deals with Emergency Preparedness topics.

Using the subject index I found there are 10 novels in the category of Influenza Fiction, then 52 books listed as End of World Fiction, 20 as Epidemics Fiction, and 15 books termed Victims of Terrorism Fiction. There is even a special category of September 11 Terrorist Attacks 2001 Fiction with 37 novels.

Interestingly enough, not all of these are books for adults. Two of the Influenza Fiction books are for children – one is about how a young boy takes care of his animal friends in Farm Flu by Teresa Bateman. The other is based on the true story of Marven who was sent by his parents to a lumber camp to escape the flu raging in the city (Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky).

Will we give our children material for the Influenza Fiction of the future?

Another good reason to ask ourselves “What If? Colorado.”

Check out the Emergency Kit Calculator to figure out what supplies you need to complete your kit. In case you’re interested, my summer reading list included books in the categories of Antarctica Fiction, Jane Austen Fiction and Knitting Fiction. It’s been a good summer.