Wake up call

If you need a swift kick in the rear to start on your food storage, all you have to do is read this book:

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

Granted I didn't read all of it, only got about half way through. I wanted to finish. It is a really good book. But seriously, with these pregnant hormones, I was starting to totally freak out. I was an emotional wreck...thinking about food storage and how this is all possible. I do plan on going back and reading it all later (read: not pregnant or hormonally challenged). Gets you thinking that anything is possible and you really never do know when something can happen. Do I have enough cans of tuna?

Here is a snippet about the book. Read it and let me know what you think.

From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8–Pfeffer tones down the terror, but otherwise crafts a frighteningly plausible account of the local effects of a near-future worldwide catastrophe. The prospect of an asteroid hitting the Moon is just a mildly interesting news item to Pennsylvania teenager Miranda, for whom a date for the prom and the personality changes in her born-again friend, Megan, are more immediate concerns. Her priorities undergo a radical change, however, when that collision shifts the Moon into a closer orbit, causing violent earthquakes, massive tsunamis, millions of deaths, and an upsurge in volcanism. Thanks to frantic preparations by her quick-thinking mother, Miranda's family is in better shape than many as utilities and public services break down in stages, wild storms bring extremes of temperature, and outbreaks of disease turn the hospital into a dead zone. In Miranda's day-by-day journal entries, however, Pfeffer keeps nearly all of the death and explicit violence offstage, focusing instead on the stresses of spending months huddled in increasingly confined quarters, watching supplies dwindle, and wondering whether there will be any future to make the effort worthwhile. The author provides a glimmer of hope at the end, but readers will still be left stunned and thoughtful.