I just finished reading The End of October: a Novel by Lawrence Wright. This book had incredible timing as it is a thriller about a pandemic that hit the bookstores in April just as COVID was becoming a household world and fear. The virus in this book is COVID on steroids and the story is apocalyptic to the 9th degree. Still, it was an interesting journey with many moments that seemed similar to today’s events. The biggest one for me was the desire to blame a disaster that arises out of nature on another country, and instead of working together globally to protect all humankind, countries fight each other, and the results are predictable.
