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Tag: Emily St. John Mandel

Team Review: Station Eleven

This post-apocalyptic novel meanders through a poorly-imagined future.

December 11, 2017 2

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“She sees how she, Agnes, must remain calm, steady, must make herself bigger in a way, to keep the house on an even keel, not to allow it to be taken over by this darkness, to square up to it, to shield Susanna from it, to seal off her own cracks, not to let it in.” ~ Maggie O’Farrell

“You’re shaking,” he said.

What I enjoyed most about this book was the incomprehensibly massive scale. We get to watch a planet of spiders evolve over millennia, from the stone age to space travel. We see a scientist go from the head of a terraforming uplift project to a veritable deity. Through the eyes of one classicist and linguist, we watch several generations of the last humans in the universe on a long-voyage ship. While these ideas aren’t entirely new to sci-fi, they made me feel an aching loneliness and terror as I put myself into the miserable lives of these desperate humans—and desperate spiders.

“The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one’s own words in print.” ~ Joan Didion

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books with Good Love Stories

“I leap out of the water. But when I come down, the shark is right in front of me. I jump again, looking for an escape." ~Rosanne Parry

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