#Emily St. John Mandel

[aseaofquotes]

Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

[emerald-emerlad]

guys if you fucking loved liked Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus in Kaos PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I beg watch Station Eleven. It's got apocalyptic Shakespeare and depressed comic artists and your favorite reluctant parent trope. He's only in a few episodes but oml the emotional rollercoaster is worth it.

[fishingforwords]

van gogh had a point. and also depression.

fernando pessoa || emily st. john mandel, station eleven || nicholas sparks || vincent van gogh || dante alighieri || richard siken, boot theory || vincent van gogh

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[wretchmp4]

i will never be able to stop thinking about this actually

[womancorpse]

“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

[allthatiknowisthatiknownothing]

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.” - Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

[woodtoc]

I love stories about art, stories about stories, movies about movies, art about art............ i love station eleven

[litandlifequotes]

Because survival is insufficient.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

I wish to remain vanishing.

Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal (Lilia Albert)

[walking-existential-crisis]

Currently thinking about:

"It was beautiful. It was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape."

and

"Hell is the absence of the people you long for"

how I got through this stupid book without crying is beyond me

[contremineur]

Always these memories, barely submerged.

Emily St. John Mandel, from Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf 2014)

[georgiaswarr]

emily st. john mandel has this strange and beautiful power to completely immerse you in her words in a way not many writers do

[ech0ech0ech0]

When your senses are acute, you can’t escape

The Beaches, Desdemona // A. S. King, I Crawl Through It // Sabrina Benaim, Explaining My Depression to My Mother //  Dionne Brand, What We All Long For // Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander // Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

[the-dust-jacket]

LET'S PUT ON A SHOW: six novels about playing Shakespeare!

(Pictured: Romeo and Juliet Together (And Alive!) At Last; Foolish Hearts; King of Shadows; Star-Crossed; Hag-Seed; Station Eleven)

I love a good let's-put-on-a-show story, especially a Shakespearian one, and I feel like it's been ages since I've picked one up. If you've got recommendations please let me know!

[peetapiepita]

Respect Women Who Write

Two things I found out about writers I like last year:

Taylor Jenkins Reid thanked her husband for taking care of domestic stuff so she could write and thrive like she's doing now.

Emily St. John Mendel got a divorce but couldn't edit her Wikipedia page because no one ever asked her about it in an interview. She got on social media to ask someone to interview her so she could edit her marital status on Wikipedia.

I'm actually translating a book about male writers' wives this year and the shocking things I read, I can never put them all into words. These two women's experiences hit me differently after I read about women who wanted to write or create reduced to just "the writer's wives".

I have mad respect for all of them, especially for Taylor Jenkins Reid who dared to demand the rights male writers have always had; for Emily St. John Mendel to get out of a marriage and be openly happy about it. Congrats to all women who got rid of the mindset that women need to be accessories to male writers.