By Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven: A novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
8601401561798
ASIN: B00N4FHI2G
Publish date: 2014-08-29
Publisher: Knopf
Edition language: English
4.5 starsI may have understood somethings before it was time (don’t go see my guesses in the book updates if you don’t want spoilers) and it felt a little slow at times (maybe because there were so many stories that at the beginning didn’t interlace at all).However, this is all minor in comparison w...
Station Eleven is a book that meanders back and forth through time, providing clues to how each character is linked to the others in the post-apocalyptic world after the rapid and devastating spread of the Georgia Flu. The connections are hinted at and foreshadowed long before many of them are expli...
I can see why some would really love this book. It’s well written in terms of the prose and it is one of those books that has Things to Say. I could not love it, though. This is a post-apocalyptic story that spends the majority of its time looking back to its characters’ lives and the world as it wa...
Fun fact: Nearly every time I read a book involving a pandemic wiping out 99% of humanity, it coincides with me catching a cold. My immune system is not only totally sucky, it’s also highly suggestible. Apparently. I was hoping to love this more than I did. Literary doomsday novels are possibly my...
Without music, life would be a mistakeOne of my favorite bookstores in the world is Provincetown Books, a tiny space in the center of town, right next to Adams Pharmacy. The owner’s selection is very much my taste, and she always seems to have just what I’m looking for at the moment. This summer, I ...