future friday







carpe librum 

seize the book 

welcome book lovers


each friday myself and my BFF ann from Romancing the Readers
will be briefly featuring various book related topics


we also blog together on Book Club Thursdays (aka BCT) and on sundays (sunday spotlight)

today is future friday:


i primarily bought the book because that cover grabbed my attention. okay and maybe that title too...and hey i just blogged about this on monday!!!

and...i think i may have blogged about this book in another week day post in the past but guess what...

i still haven't read it hence me featuring it today HA HA HA










The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. "A searing narrative." -The New York Times "In this keen and exceptionally well-written book, rife with surprises, narrative suspense and a steady flow of expansive insights, 'the world's most diabolical virus' conquers the unsuspecting reader's imaginative nervous system. . . . A smart, unsettling, and strangely stirring piece of work." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating. . . . Wasik and Murphy chronicle more than two millennia of myths and discoveries about rabies and the animals that transmit it, including dogs, bats and raccoons." -The Wall Street Journal



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