#emily st. john mandel

[aseaofquotes]

Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

#Emily St. John Mandel #The Glass Hotel #memory #memories

[fishingforwords]

van gogh had a point. and also depression.

fernando pessoa || emily st. john mandel, station eleven || nicholas sparks || vincent van gogh || dante alighieri || richard siken, boot theory || vincent van gogh

#web weaving #my weavings #on sadness #on depression #on growing up #and growing old and growing sad #fernando pessoa #emily st. john mandel #station eleven #nicholas sparks #vincent van gogh #dante alighieri #richard siken

[lesbianboyfriend]

“There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”

Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

#but whatever. #emily st. john mandel #quotes #jules.txt #my mother’s biggest disappointment

[wretchmp4]

i will never be able to stop thinking about this actually

#books #sea of tranquility #bookblr #emily st. john mandel

[allthatiknowisthatiknownothing]

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.” - Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

#quotes #emily st. john mandel #station eleven

[st-just]

The previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women who she'd known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them.

-Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

#quote #poetic #station eleven #emily st. john mandel

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

I hear my own voice whispering, "I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go home," although where is home if not there?

Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

#book quotes #bookish quotes #book quotations #emily st. john mandel #the glass hotel #page 3 #homesick #homesick for somewhere unknown #vincent

[peetapiepita]

Respect Women Who Write

Two things I found out about writers I like last year:

Taylor Jenkins Reid thanked her husband for taking care of domestic stuff so she could write and thrive like she's doing now.

Emily St. John Mendel got a divorce but couldn't edit her Wikipedia page because no one ever asked her about it in an interview. She got on social media to ask someone to interview her so she could edit her marital status on Wikipedia.

I'm actually translating a book about male writers' wives this year and the shocking things I read, I can never put them all into words. These two women's experiences hit me differently after I read about women who wanted to write or create reduced to just "the writer's wives".

I have mad respect for all of them, especially for Taylor Jenkins Reid who dared to demand the rights male writers have always had; for Emily St. John Mendel to get out of a marriage and be openly happy about it. Congrats to all women who got rid of the mindset that women need to be accessories to male writers.

#rant #writers #a room of one's own #taylor jenkins reid #tjr #emily st. john mandel #daisy jones and the six #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #carrie soto is back #malibu rising #station eleven #sea of tranquility #the glass hotel

[walking-existential-crisis]

Currently thinking about:

"It was beautiful. It was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape."

and

"Hell is the absence of the people you long for"

how I got through this stupid book without crying is beyond me

#Just finished Station Eleven #am not okay #alright most of it wasn't that sad #it was just really melancholic #and the quotes #dear god the quotes #had me in tears #Station Eleven #emily st. john mandel

[carrionboy]

vincent at sea

#black and white #sketch #the glass hotel #emily st. john mandel

[sonictoaster]

#emily st. john mandel #station eleven

[lonely1seventy6]

I remember damage then escape I’m at my best when I’m escaping I have a job to do I still have a job to do I have found you nine times before maybe ten and I’ll find you again I always do there is no rescue mission we are the same we are safe.

-Station Eleven

#station eleven #emily st. john mandel

[l0nggoneday]

The revelation of privacy: she can walk down the street and absolutely no one knows who she is. It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.

- station eleven / emily st. john mandel

#book community #bookblr #book quotes #emily st. john mandel #station eleven

[theinquisitxor]

June 2023 Reading Wrap Up

June was the best reading month I've had in a little while, especially after a couple of 'slumpy' feeling months. I read 9 books this month, as well as started and finished two trilogies. I read mostly fantasy, with 1 literary fiction and 1 nonfiction.

1-3.The Age of Darkness Trilogy by Katy Rose Pool (There Will Come a Darkness, As the Shadow Rises, Into the Dying Light). ~4-5/5 stars per book. This is a series that skyrocketed into a new favorite YA series. These books follow a cast of 5 characters as they try to stop the end of the world. Set in a mediterranean inspired land with gods, paladins, Heirophants, and prophets. This series was so much fun and I really enjoyed my time reading it. YA fantasy, lgbt main romance.

4.The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus 5) by Rick Riordian. 3.5/5 stars. This concluded by reread of the HoO series, and while this particular book isn't by favorite of the series, it was still enjoyable. The Nico and Reyna chapters carried this book tbh. YA/middle grade

5. The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel 5/5 stars. I wasn't sure if I was going to like this novel, but I ended up hooked and completely loving it. Emily Mandel has one of my favorite writing styles, and her ability to craft and weave a story is so talented. Mandel's books are not really happy, not really sad, not really like what I normally read, but are continuously favorites. Literary Fiction.

6.The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack. This was my nonfiction for the month, and I enjoyed this book about all the ways the universe could potentially end (in the far, far future). It is science-y and technical, but I thought Mack explained things very well. Nonfiction.

7-9. The Poppy War Trilogy by RF Kuang (The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God) ~4/5 stars. I've been meaning to read this series for years now, but never quite thought I was in the right headspace to try and tackle this series. I overall enjoyed it, but maybe not quite as much as I was hoping. I liked the parallels to modern history and the critique of colonialism. This series has lots of action and was very readable, which I think helped me overlook some other issues I think the books/writing has. I also discovered that grim-dark is not really my cup of tea, and I probably won't read any more. Adult grim-dark military fantasy.

My average rating was 4 stars for the books I read this month. It felt good to be able to binge some series and some overall poor weather kept me inside, so I had more time to read in general (plus less busy with work + grad school). I'm hoping July is just as productive and enjoyable of a reading month!

#Reading wrap up #June reading wrap up #the age of darkness series #katy rose pool #the glass hotel #emily st. john mandel #the end of everything (astrophsycially speaking) #The poppy war #RF Kuang #books #fantasy books #book series #lgbt books #reading recommendations #my post

[osmiumpenguin]

It's the solstice tonight, and a good time to reflect on my favourite books from the past year.

I'm making very little attempt to rank these titles. They're simply the books that I enjoyed most, and they're presented in the order I read them. • "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet," by Becky Chambers (2014) • "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," by Becky Chambers (2021) • "Locklands," by Robert Jackson Bennett (2022) • "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) • "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang (2019) • "Fugitive Telemetry," by Martha Wells (2021) • "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," by Patty Krawec (2022) • "The Vanished Birds," by Simon Jimenez (2020) • "The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (2021) • "Utopia Avenue," by by David Mitchell (2020) • "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery," by Amitav Ghosh (1995) • "Moon of the Crusted Snow," by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) • "Bea Wolf," by Zach Weinersmith; illustrated by Boulet (2023) • "Fighting the Moon," by Julie McGalliard (2021) • "The Empress of Salt and Fortune," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel (2020) • "New York 2140," by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) • "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus," by Ryan North et al; illustrated by Erica Henderson & Derek Charm & Jacob Chabot & Naomi Franquiz & Tom Fowler & Rico Renzi et al (2022) • "Buffalo Is the New Buffalo: Stories," by Chelsea Vowel (2022) • "Greenwood: A Novel," by Michael Christie (2019) • "The House of Rust," by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (2021) • "Children of Memory," by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022) • "Jade Legacy," by Fonda Lee (2021) • "A Deadly Education: A Novel: Lesson One of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2020) • "The Last Graduate: A Novel: Lesson Two of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2021) • "The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2022) • "To Be Taught if Fortunate," by Becky Chambers (2019) • "Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution," by Carlo Rovelli (2020), translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (2021) • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built," by Becky Chambers (2021) Ah, but I said I'd make "very little attempt" to rank them, not "no attempt." So here is that attempt: my favourite five books from the last solar orbit — the five I enjoyed even more than those other thirty — also presented in the order I read them.

• "Nona the Ninth," by Tamsyn Muir (2022) • "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," by Kate Beaton (2022) • "Record of a Spaceborn Few," by Becky Chambers (2018) • "Briar Rose," by Jane Yolen (1992) • "Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution," by R.F. Kuang (2022)

#books #Becky Chambers #Robert Jackson Bennett #Toni Morrison #Ted Chiang #Martha Wells #Patty Krawec #Simon Jimenez #Joshua Cohen #David Mitchell #Amitav Ghosh #Waubgeshig Rice #Zach Weinersmith #Boulet #Julie McGalliard #Nghi Vo #Emily St. John Mandel #Kim Stanley Robinson #Ryan North #Erica Henderson #Chelsea Vowel #Michael Christie #Khadija Abdalla Bajaber #Adrian Tchaikovsky #Fonda Lee #Naomi Novik #Carlo Rovelli #Tamsyn Muir #Kate Beaton #Jane Yolen

[plantbutter]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

#station eleven #words #emily st. john mandel #listening to it on audiobook is just gasping at every turn… ill have to download the ebook and reread it later simply for the amt of #moments i had to pause and have a little cry