My goal this year was to read the books that have received the most reviews, but I lost track of that somewhere along the way. Well, I’m probably the last person to read this book, so if I’m going to try to at least partially keep to my goals, this is as good a place to start as any. This has been reviewed 40 times, and has an average rating is 4.51 stars. It’s fair to say that it is well loved. For all of […]
The Delicate Infrastructure of People
I can’t remember who said it, and I may be mashing many people’s words together, “when there is nothing external to give our life meaning, then all that matters is what we do.” Which is another way of saying “survival is insufficient.” I loved Station Eleven. It struck a number of chords in me. There are some spoilers in the review. Station Eleven is about loss, meaning and human connection before, during and after a global pandemic that wipes out most humans and human civilization. The timeline […]
The End of Everything and How We Got There
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) – I fear this review will make this book seem much more convoluted than it really is, but I’m going to try and give it the credit it’s due. The premise is a simple one: there’s been a worldwide pandemic where most of humanity is dead and the few survivors in the twenty years that follow fight brigands, cultists, and a world slowly devolving into barbarism. Technology is gone, borders no longer exist, medicine is a memory. […]
Makes you think twice about the sick people on the plane with you…
I would give this a solid 4.5 stars (rounded up here). This book has been on my to-read list for over a year, and I finally was able to walk away from my ongoing series to listen to this one. It was an excellent audiobook, I really enjoyed the narration. Short synopsis: It’s the end of the world as we know it… there is a virus that wipes out 99.99% (est.) of the human population. The book primarily follows a few key characters throughout their […]