Everyone I know has been praising Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, even Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin declared that it should’ve won the Hugo Award, so maybe I went into…
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A not-very-enthusiastic shrug
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven a post-apocalyptic tale of a theatre troupe is a much-beloved National Book Award Finalist that seems to make people incoherent with swoony love. However, I don’t get the adoration….
Another round of review stew
There are books that are magical. Not in that boy-wizard way, which literally includes hocus pocus and living-breathing brooms. But books that take your brain and set it in a cloud of cotton and provide…
‘The Lola Quartet’ falls flat
The best of Emily St. John Mandel’s The Lola Quartet is concentrated in the novel’s first scene. Young teen mom Anna Montgomery is going about her daily ritual. She wakes early, bundles the bambino, and stops…