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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

April 27, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

I was originally tempted to just post this whole novel as one giant (and perfect) quotation. We knew it was coming but we behaved inconsistently. We stocked up on supplies-just in case-but sent our children to school, because how do you get any work done with the kids at home? (We were still thinking in terms of getting work done. The most shocking thing in retrospect was the degree to which all of us completely missed the point.) One day, when we look back at […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: autofiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Illness, last night in montreal, metafiction, multiverse, pandemic, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Time, time travel

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: autofiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Illness, last night in montreal, metafiction, multiverse, pandemic, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Time, time travel ·
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“There is a pay phone by a truck stop near the town of Leonard, Arizona. Sometimes at night it starts to ring.”

Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

November 23, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

I was first drawn into Emily St. John Mandel’s world back in 2015, when Station Eleven caught my eye after popping up in a few “best of” lists.  It became an immediate favorite, and I know that love is shared here within our CBR community! I’ve read it twice since first picking it up, most recently in March, right as the world started to dip further and further into pandemic horror. I wrote in a previous review that I would not have picked up The Glass Hotel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Brooklyn, Canada, child abduction, Emily St. John Mandel, family, identity, language, last night in montreal, loss, memory, montreal, quebec, unreliable narrator

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:122 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Brooklyn, Canada, child abduction, Emily St. John Mandel, family, identity, language, last night in montreal, loss, memory, montreal, quebec, unreliable narrator ·
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