Just finished a book club meeting talking about #EmilyStJohnMandel’s #SeaOfTranquility (my one line review - she’s going to kick herself when she finally gets around to reading Heinlein and Dick). Had her habit of recycling characters pointed out and realise I probably ought to dig out that copy of #StationEleven I’ve got lying around and get around to actually reading it.

My favorite Audible listens for Jan/Feb 2023:

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

Sea of Tranquility by #EmilyStJohnMandel / Narrated by John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, Kirsten Potter

Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik / Narrated by Michael Page

The Terraformers by @annaleen / Narrated by Emily Lawrence

Making a Scene by #ConstanceWu

Here’s my January reads - most were pretty good but my favorites were The Zoo and Claire of the Sea Light.

1. The Dutch House by #AnnPatchett
2. A World of Curiosities by #LouisePenny
3. The Mill on the Floss by #GeorgeEliot
4. Spook Street by #MickHerron
5. Claire of the Sea Light by #EdwidgeDanticat
6. The Zoo by #ChristopherWilson
7. Babel by #RFKuang
8. Bewilderment by #RichardPowers
9. Sea of Tranquility by #EmilyStJohnMandel

#MonthlyWrapUp #BookToot #Bookstodon #Books

NEW ARTICLE: My Favorite Things of 2022: Books and Essays

In which I share my favorite books and essays of 2022...

Read here: https://medium.com/@cole.haddon/my-favorite-things-of-2022-books-and-essays-555795cf0148

#bookstodon #books #essays #reading #newbooks #storytelling #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #NickCave #BobDylan #SequoiaNagamatsu #EmilyStJohnMandel

“STATION ELEVEN” is a ten-episode meditation on human civilization and whether it deserves to continue in any form familiar to us today. Created by Patrick Somerville, based on Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, I found it to be a MasterClass not just in television storytelling, but in humanity.

#TV #television #screenwriting #writing #writingcommunity #StationEleven #EmilyStJohnMandel #dystopian

“What if it always is the end of the world?”

Ooooh I got sucked into this one, and I’m not big into time travel.

“You write a book with a fictional tattoo and then the tattoo becomes real in the world and after that almost anything is possible.”

#SeaOfTranquility #EmilyStJohnMandel #TimeTravel #blizzardReads #bookstodon

Reading and liking STATION ELEVEN by Emily St John Mandel although at first i had to fight a certain reluctance to plunge into a post-apocalyptic novel, particularly one set around a global pandemic. But Mandel (St John Mandel?) seems more interested in people, especially threads between people pre- and post- apocalypse, although there is a plotty thing happening with a cult in one town.

#books #AmReading #Bookstodon #EmilyStJohnMandel

Currently Reading: #TheGlassHotel #EmilyStJohnMandel #reader #bookaddict #booknerd

Ooh this has been going around and I want to play! What are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:
#NeilGaiman
#TaylorJenkinsReid 
#EmilyStJohnMandel 
#PhilipKDick
#DouglasCoupland 
#MadelineMiller 
#RaymondCarver

#bookstodon #reading #writersofmastodon

4 To Know Me #Books ❤️📚

#EmilyStJohnMandel
#JennyOffill
#DavidEagleman
#RobBiddulph

"I've been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush."
Sea of Tranquility
#emilystjohnmandel

Another book finished.

This one was a bit of a nothing. Interesting premise but very disjointed and with no real climax, it just wanders along and then fizzles out.

#StationEleven #EmilyStJohnMandel