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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 |

The End of Everything and How We Got There

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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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.  But people of hope still exist. In this bleak world, the Symphony travels from one […]

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5/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

Makes you think twice about the sick people on the plane with you…

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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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 time leading up to and the following 20(ish) years after the event. We also see […]

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3/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

Fantastic Read to Kick Off to CBR9!

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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This book was a part of one of the CBR group discussions last year, or the year before, wasn’t it? I knew it sounded familiar but alas, had not gotten around to it until now. I’ll be honest I had no idea what Station Eleven was about when I started to read it, but I received it as a gift from a friend and I must say, she did a great job choosing something that she thought I would like! It looks like quite a few other people have enjoyed it, too. But let us dive in, shall we? Station […]

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1/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:1 |

Late to the party. CBR7 Book Club

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I remember seeing all the Station Eleven reviews popping up throughout CBR7 but for whatever reason I didn’t jump on the bandwagon until now. In lieu of a traditional review I’m going to answer a few of fantingviolet’s book club discussion questions. 1. Did you find the shifts between pre- and post-apocalypse to be an effective storytelling technique? How about changing character perspectives? I’ve gone on record saying that multiple character view points combined with too much time jumping can be irritating and I stand by that. I think the time hopping worked in some instances here- primarily the reveal […]

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1/30/2016 's CBR8 Review No:11 |

Tell me something I haven’t imagined before

Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel

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I’m having very mixed feelings about “Station Eleven.” It sure checks a lot of boxes for me including post-apocalyptic survival, a plague, interconnected characters, graceful exposition, and a creepy antagonist. But it misses the mark on originality and heart. Hard to summarize, and it skips back and forward in time a lot (effortlessly, to its credit), this is the story of a handful of individuals affected by a civilization-ending strain of the swine flu. These people are all connected through their various relationships with a world-famous actor (Arthur) who dies within the first few pages of a non-flu-related heart attack. […]

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1/19/2016 's CBR8 Review No:5 |


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