Station Eleven [books]
Dec. 28th, 2022 05:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterMy notes say that mallorys_camera recommended this book, although brief searching failed to remind me of when, so it's entirely possible I'm wrong.
This is a well-written book. I suppose it's probably better to just contrast it with the novel I read just before it, Modern Chemistry. I read MC because it has those mentions of rowing, but by the time I finished reading it, I wound up feeling like it was a story of 1950's white woman rage. Hard to not feel a bit deflated by it all, because the characters and story exist in such a narrow, tedious universe.
In contrast, Emily St. John Mandel manages to pull in the reader to where one sympathizes with the flawed characters. There were points where I resented reading SE, because SJM is prescient about events that would start to unfold shortly after the book was written and published, and so the book skirted slightly too close to the tedium of real life.
But I have to absolutely admire how deftly the entire book is woven together, and by the end I am grateful to have read it.
I'm not sure what I'll read next. But thank goodness for stories!
mallorys_camera recommended this book, although brief searching failed to remind me of when, so it's entirely possible I'm wrong.This is a well-written book. I suppose it's probably better to just contrast it with the novel I read just before it, Modern Chemistry. I read MC because it has those mentions of rowing, but by the time I finished reading it, I wound up feeling like it was a story of 1950's white woman rage. Hard to not feel a bit deflated by it all, because the characters and story exist in such a narrow, tedious universe.
In contrast, Emily St. John Mandel manages to pull in the reader to where one sympathizes with the flawed characters. There were points where I resented reading SE, because SJM is prescient about events that would start to unfold shortly after the book was written and published, and so the book skirted slightly too close to the tedium of real life.
But I have to absolutely admire how deftly the entire book is woven together, and by the end I am grateful to have read it.
I'm not sure what I'll read next. But thank goodness for stories!
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