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This was tough to read in our current times, but interesting characters and story. I wish I had a little more resolution with some of the characters.

Since I just read this , it is hard to imagine how I would feel about this book pre Covid .In the first days of our lockdown I was trying not to picture scenes as drastic in this novel happening IRL.The writing is beautiful, the book atmospheric. That the arts make a comeback & that there is a museum of now useless artifacts was fascinating.Of course there‘s an evil prophet, there would have to be, though my least favorite part of the book.

Not sure this lived up to the hype for me but it was really beautifully written and I did get pretty invested in some of the character's stories. But not all.

Every time the Cabazon Dinosaurs do a new paint job my mom, grandma, and I make the trek out to take a new pic. But one of the best parts of the trip is that half way home we stop for lunch and then go through the large Barnes and Noble next to the restaurant. Today my haul included the tagged as well as Hall of Smoke and Temple of No God.

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Station Eleven reawakened certain feelings and fears of mine from COVID 2020. Although, not always a page turner the characters make this eerie novel come to life.

Yes, I‘m still reading this. I‘m slow! It was making me a bit depressed too. But I talked about it with my book club friend who‘s reading it, and she said one theme is that life was still difficult before the apocalypse, which to me means life is as difficult as you make it to be. We‘re not just victims of our lives, we are the main drivers. I do like this book!

This book gave me nightmares, combined with some snippets of my current audio (Katie Couric‘s Going There). Imaginative, emotional and doesn‘t seem that far fetched. Wonderful characters and character development. I felt vested in them. Book wrapped up well, too. I heard there‘s a series (Netflix?)… has anyone seen it? Want to watch it with some friends after passing around the book.

Read this the first time in 2018 w a physical copy and I thought it was ok.
I either gave the book to my mom or donated it, so I rented the audiobook from the library and I liked it better this time!
I don‘t typically reread, but I watched the show, and it was awful. Such a jumbled pretentious mess that I HAD to reread. The book is miles better. (My opinion is the minority on the show)

Let me start by saying, this book isn‘t bad at all; it kept my interest enough that I was able to read it in 4 days. I like how she weaved a story about different people far away from each other in both time and distance but still intricately connected to each other.

I agree that it lacks in depth a little. Also, the beginning is slow and the story doesn‘t pick up pace until half way through.

You could pick a much worse book to read, however.

“A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.”

I wanted to love this book, but I only kinda liked it. It kept me interested with the way it wove the characters & the before and after together. But it kept getting close to something meaningful and beautiful, then would focus on something else. I wanted more depth

A #MarmiteBook.

I'm not sure whether it's the characters that I didn't connect with, or the prose that I found a bit too much sometimes. Or the jumping around the timeline from before the epidemic to after? Or maybe I missed some more background information about this dystopian world?

#MountTBR -1 😁

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

Bloody hell this was good. @Rissreads recommended it ages ago & my husband, a dystopian fiction aficionado, read her copy. He gave it an Ok, but didn‘t share her enthusiasm, so I didn‘t bother to read it, not being a huge fan of the genre.
Then someone chose The Glass Hotel for book club & I liked the writing, so my husband bought me a copy of Station Eleven for my birthday.
The lesson here? Listen to @Rissreads when she recommends a book 😆👍.

Ah, I was going to go to a local book club tonight for my first time, and it got rescheduled to next Wednesday without a reason, via meetup. :( we were going to talk about the first half of Station Eleven. I guess I have more time to get to the halfway point and beyond! Yay!

This was an unusual read for me. I didn‘t think I would enjoy a book about Georgian flu, travelling theatre, apocalyptic world, comic book and famous actor‘s life story in one.

Still not sure what was the point of all of it! Have I missed something important? Please let me know!

I would rate it as a ‘pick‘ just because I was captivated throughout. I couldn‘t really put it down!

Who knew a book about the end of civilization - no, the end of civilization as we know it to be - could be so magical. It's post-apocolyptic, but tender and true. Because Emily St. John Mandel has captured that thing that makes me love Steinbeck and the other sad literary writers: the human heart is relentless in hope and survival. Which is why as long as we are here, civilization of some sort, the small beautiful things in life, will remain.

Is this going to get really scary? I never read horror - but I heard this book could be categorized as such. I am reading cautiously, on page 79 or so!

Lazy Sunday.

Have crocheted a few triangles for my blanket. It's a bit larger than one square metre at the moment and I'm running out of scrap yarn. 🙁 Which is a sentence I have never thought I'd utter.

Eventually started Station Eleven - why haven't I read this sooner?

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Is there anyone who has read both The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven? I read the former about 6 months ago and am #currentlyreading the latter.

I am feeling a tremendous sense of deja vu reading the scenes with Miranda & Arthur at their house in the Hollywood Hills. Am wondering if there‘s some crossover, like the two Kate Atkinson novels. Maybe Miranda & Arthur are characters in both books 🤔? Or maybe they just feel similar?

Reading #StationEleven during lunch
This one has been on my TBR for years, but the hypes around it had stopped me from picking it up, now it's the hypes that made me curious about it all over again.
Honestly, I don't know if this is the best time or worst time to read this book... provided it's about lives before and after a pandemic, it really does strike a nerve there. Nonetheless, it's written beautifully & I'm hooked.

#CurrentRead #scifi

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The airport is a key setting in this book and although they are no longer operating, there are #Airplanes.

This is one of my all-time favorite books. I'm only halfway through the series, but so far I'm liking it.

I'm still kind of stunned at how much the show elevated the premise of the novel into a transcendent experience. The book is good but the series is incredible.

Such a great book! Finally read it after many years in my tbr pile.

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This has been on my TBR for ages, so I‘m grateful to #PopSugar #BecomingAFilmOrTVSeriesIn2022 to get me to read it, & I‘m excited to see the adaptation! As I read this I wondered how it would have affected me differently if I‘d read it pre-pandemic. I know during the early days of lockdown I kept thinking how it felt like we were living in some of the dystopian novels I‘d read, & I‘m not sure I‘d have wanted this to be part of my mental library.

There are lots of subtle differences between the novel and the HBO series. The show took good material and honed it down to its most tense, most dramatic form. The novel is a little more direct, often stating how characters feel.

Great read. A page turner

This one hit really close to home so it was a lot to think about. I liked reading all of the different perspectives and it was a page-turner! Can‘t wait to watch the show.

After watching the extraordinary HBO series, I had to read the novel.

I‘m glad that I watched the tv series to have some sort of premise at the same time as the book, even though they somewhat veered away from each other in certain areas, because I found the book confusing at times, and could not see ‘the bigger picture‘ or ‘the story behind the story‘. I know people with more creative minds than mine will love this, but my more analytical mind had a harder time with it.

🎥 I find the HBOMax series writing far more powerful and profound.

Pausing reading The Dark Half even though I'm enjoying it, because I have an undeniable craving to re-read this. Have bought a paper copy from Book Depository but not waiting for it to arrive!

What an excellent, but scary, book this was. I literally read it from cover to cover in just over a day. It‘s been a while since I‘ve read a book that quickly. The subject matter of this book was spot on. Who would have thought that a large scale pandemic could hit back when the book was published in 2015? Thank goodness we‘re not as bad off as the characters in this story. Now I will start the series based on this book that is on HBO Max.

This book is transcendent. Absolutely amazing in characters, plotting, and weaving a tapestry of time shifts and story arcs. She blends gentleness with brutality so well. I regret not having read it in 2014 and three times since. OTOH, I really did NOT like what the adaptation did to the story especially The Prophet.

For all my thoughts read the full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com
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I finished the ten part HBO series of this last night. The story bounced around too much for my husband but the last episode completely absorbed him! I was much more engaged the whole way through since I‘d read the book and could follow what was happening better. If you‘ve read it already, I recommend the series. So interesting to see the characters come alive.

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 165.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

I know I'm late to the party but I'm so glad I didn't read this before 2020! This is the first book to give me nightmares in recent memory. 5⭐️

Just finished this one. Such a great read, both as a literary gem and a post apocalyptic novel. Now on to watch the TV show.

#sciencefiction #scifi

I‘m 4 episodes into the show and I couldn‘t stop myself from getting out my copy to reread some of my favorite parts. Page 228 wrecked me when I read it the first time. It‘s amazing how viscerally strong of a reaction I have to the show when it‘s been ~6 years since I read it - rare but some books just have that impact. Just a phenomenal book, and the show is actually doing it justice.

Just finished this book after first watching the series on HBO Max. Yes there are major differences in the plot but overall both stories are both very good ☺️

Addicting. 11/5 ⭐️. Even though the story is heavily post-apocalyptic, it‘s still so human in the way the character‘s lives overlap & the survivors find ways to begin again while remembering their old lives. Mandel writes the characters so well that I almost forgot it centered around a pandemic. I could (and will) talk about this book to everyone I know!

P.S. I definitely set this as my laptop screen as it was giving me post-Georgia Flu vibes…

I haven‘t been able to put this down since I started it last night! I‘m already on chapter 19. Something about the parallel between this epidemic and the current state of the world is really drawing me in to the story. I like how there‘s a balance of times before and during the Collapse. Definitely a page turner!

I just watched the first 2 episodes of the adaptation & I really enjoyed it! It's been years since I've read the book, so I'm a bit hazy on how faithful it is, but so far I'm pretty pleased.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Survival is insufficient". This book is literature. Really beautiful writing , Brilliant character development and connection that symbolize's the theme of human connection throughout the book. The imagery of the collapse of civilization in this book is so haunting . Hard to believe it was written in 2014. It is thought provoking , lyrical , a great place to the weaving of time lines and I couldn't put it down.

Is anyone else watching the HBO series? Just stunning! I loved the book and the series does not disappoint!

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I know there‘s a new show on HBO based on this book so I thought I‘d read it. After reading it though, I‘m not sure I want to watch the show. I assume it‘s beautiful - the boo makes me think that. But the story is a bit heavy and depressing and full of regret. It‘s a pandemic story that quickly (within days) kills most of the population and how those who survived lives intersect.