Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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Don't miss this slim dystopian novel by Emily St. john Mandel. Full review on the site.
Don't miss this slim dystopian novel by Emily St. john Mandel. Full review on the site.
This book lives rent free in my mind, and it inspired me to reread The Glass Hotel. I love a book written out of order or with multiple narrators whose perspectives we have to balance. St. John Mandel places scenes so familiar to us we can inhabit them inside of fantastic plots that remain with you in scenes as vivid as Toni Morrison’s.
A quiet, poignant, meditative book. I'm amazed at what the author accomplishes in under 300 pages. She pulls together deft, evocative of sketches of 4 characters across 4 time periods while also exploring deeper themes including family, purpose and the meaning of reality.
I didn't love it quite as much as Station Eleven but I still loved it!
I love a well-written time travel story. This one had similar vibes to The Ministry of Time or the Time Variance Authority in the show Loki with a dedicated organization devoted to policing our timeline for anomalies. Although familiar, the book had enough inventive storyline to keep me interested - especially as it jumped far in the future to colonies on the moon! It inspired lots of good existential thinking.
My reading is slowing down because school got hard >:(
Overall, it was a pretty quick and compelling read. I think it's hard to read about anything pandemic-related right now without it feeling too meta (RE the Olive plotline). That being said, I enjoyed the time-skipping structure and was genuinely surprised by the end.
Overall, it was a pretty quick and compelling read. I think it's hard to read about anything pandemic-related right now without it feeling too meta (RE the Olive plotline). That being said, I enjoyed the time-skipping structure and was genuinely surprised by the end.
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