The night the fatal Georgia Flu arrives in Toronto, fading movie star Arthur Leander has a heart attack on stage performing the title role in King Lear. Jeevan, a paramedic trainee, rushes to the actor’s aid but it is too late to save him. Kirsten, a young child actress in the production, watches fearful from the wings of the stage. So begins the compelling and surprising Station Eleven. An apocalyptic novel that moves back and forth in time, Station Eleven is a layered and entertaining […]
Find the singer’s gun, then shoot yourself with it
Emily St. John Mandel has become an author like John Green or Liane Moriarty for me — I read her first book and adored it, so I sought out her earlier books and remain largely disappointed. Of the three I’ve read by her — Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal and now The Singer’s Gun — this book definitely disappointed and irritated me the most. Anton Waker grew up with parents who ran a store filled with stolen goods, and a little bitch of a cousin (with whom he implies that he fell […]
I spent this whole book wondering if I liked it or not — not a good sign
I liked Station Eleven, so I grabbed a couple other Emily St. John Mandel books from the library. Last Night in Montreal — the author’s debut — is, like, pretty good, but not good-good — you know what I mean? I liked it, but the author’s sort of drifty, dreamy narrative style doesn’t work as well here as it did in Station Eleven. And while I desperately wanted to know how it ended and solve the central mystery, I didn’t really enjoy the journey getting there. “It was beginning to dawn on her […]
Post-Apocalyptic Shakespeare
I read a million reviews of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven on this site, so I finally found myself a copy. Y’all were right — this was a good read! “The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?” A super flu hits the world and wipes out just about everyone. 20 years later, Kristen and her band of musicians/actors travel North America, putting on performances for the small pockets of civilization […]
This book is great, and you can too!
This is my quarter Cannonball – I have reached my goal by mid-year. Dare I now try and complete a half Cannonball, after the failure of 2014? My quarter is going to end on a high note – the remarkable Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. This has of course been reviewed to death already this year, so what more can I add? For those few people who are not aware, this book centres on the survivors of a world wide flu epidemic, which […]
Yes, I too Liked This Book (don’t let it keep you from reading it).
After much hype and fanfare (and waiting on the library hold list), I finally got my hands on Station Eleven. I purposefully didn’t read many reviews on this book so I wouldn’t be influenced by others’ take on things. All I really knew was what the publisher provides as a preview…that an orchestral and theatric troupe travels around what is left of Michigan after a devastating illness has decimated the world population. I wasn’t quite sure what to think of that. I’m happy to report […]
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