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First we only want to be seen…After that, we want to be remembered.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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CBR11 BINGO: Cannonballer Says Since CBR6, Cannonballers have been (mostly) raving about this book. It was a CBR7 book club selection, faintingviolet read it more than once and the list of Cannonball reviews is over 34 and spanning CBR6 to CBR11. My eyes began to blur while attempting to calculate it. Suffice it to say, it is a looooonnnnngggggg list. Caitlin_D said that she was “late to the party” 3 1/2 years ago when she read and reviewed it. Maybe that makes my review the renaissance of Station Eleven? I don’t want to shirk my review responsibility, but I don’t […]

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7/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

How do you tell the story of the end of the world?

Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel

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I’m no novice to the world of apocalypse fiction, having cut my teeth on Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ when I was 13 years old. The virus apocalypse, the zombie apocalypse… honestly, it’s my favourite genre. So when I kept seeing Station 11 recommended as a stand-out apocalyptic fiction book, written by a woman no less, I was eager to dive in. I’d describe this novel as softly written… lingering like a nice mellow merlot. There is no cataclysmic event (Without Warning). No grand worldwide scale (World War Z). No good-vs-evil implications (The Stand). No abject and unrelenting hopelessness (The Road). […]

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4/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

“There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.” (CBR10Bingo Blackout!)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I apologize now, this review will not really be a review. It is more a love letter to our community here at Cannonball Read. Of the ten books we had to choose from for So Popular, I had read most, but not all. The ones I haven’t read I don’t care to (looking at you, Divergent) so I was thinking about re-reading Eleanor & Park to go with last year’s re-read of Attachments or maybe The Martian to see if I still had a book crush on Mark Watney. I wrote up my #cbr10bingo list with a couple options and […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

When one book gives you a lot of slow kicks

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel for the So Popular! for the cbr10bingo. Now, the book is not bad. Not by a long shot. I just found it slow. Therefore, I thought I was going to have to review only half of the book. There is a lot of buildup leading one to think course there is going to be a big explosive ending! Wrong. It somewhat fizzled at the end. However, it kept to the tone of the book. The whole book was just watching these people live and grow and die. I felt as if […]

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10/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:393 |

Without music, life would be a mistake

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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CBR10Bingo: So Popular One of my favorite bookstores in the world is Provincetown Books, a tiny space in the center of town, right next to Adams Pharmacy. The owner’s selection is very much my taste, and she always seems to have just what I’m looking for at the moment. This summer, I was on a mission to fill out a few more CBR10Bingo squares, and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven was at the top of my list. Of course she had it in stock. As soon as I laid the book on the counter, she looked up at me […]

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9/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

It’s the end of the world as we know it….

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

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In Toronto, Ontario paramedic-in-training Jeevan Chaudhary is sitting in the audience watching a production of King Lear when the lead suddenly drops dead onstage. Unable to save him, Chaudhary comforts a young actress as the body is taken away. This is Year Zero. In Year Twenty, Kirsten Raymonde is a member of the Travelling Symphony – a group of actors and musicians who travel around the Great Lakes performing classical music and Shakespeare. The colonies they visit sprung up after the Georgia Flu wiped out the majority of the world’s population. There is no power, no mass communications, no government, […]

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4/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

This book is my everything.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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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 that, Station Eleven is a bit hard to explain. It’s ostensibly a post-apocalyptic tale of […]

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11/23/2017 's CBR9 Review No:73 |

The Delicate Infrastructure of People

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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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 is not linear and there are multiple point of view characters. Arthur Leander sought fame, […]

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6/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:47 |


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