Sleeping Beauties
In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent… In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep – and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether… --front flap
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- David Byrne was recently on, of all things, Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast:
> History is littered with ideas that have been tossed aside, only for them to gain relevance at some later date. Think of Moby-Dick: forgotten in Melville's time, but now regarded as the great American novel. Or the work of economist Hyman Minsky, which became influential a decade after his death, when the 2008 financial crisis made “the Minsky Moment” a mainstream term. These are just a couple of the things we talk about with the legendary musician David Byrne on today's podcast. Byrne's new book, Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up, looks to categorize numerous “sleeping beauties” — ideas that were lost but then rediscovered. Besides Melville and Minsky, we also talk about the lost Roman recipe for concrete and we get into Byrne's thoughts on how to write a song and his own experience of having his music rediscovered by a new generation.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3x7aZ11WT4
* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-byrne-explains-h...
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The Forbidden Door - Dean Koontz
The Crooked Staircase - Dean Koontz
The Outsider - Stephen King
Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King
The Fallen - David Baldacci
Zeroes - Chuck Wendig
The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- Past Tense - Lee Child
The Forbidden Door - Dean Koontz
The Crooked Staircase - Dean Koontz
The Outsider - Stephen King
Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King
The Fallen - David Baldacci
Zeroes - Chuck Wendig
The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
