#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]

[lesbianboyfriend]

“There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”

Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

[wretchmp4]

i will never be able to stop thinking about this actually

[st-just]

The previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women who she'd known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them.

-Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

[allthatiknowisthatiknownothing]

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

[musician-not-magician]

November Books

I rated each book from ⭐️ - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The books are listed in the order that I completed them. I use 🌈 to indicate LGBTQ themes.

��Horrorstör” by Grady Hendrix ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Jade Legacy” by Fonda Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Atlas Six” by Olivie Blake ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“A Dark and Drowning Tide” by Allison Saft ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“My Best Friend’s Exorcism” by Grady Hendrix ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Sword Catcher” by Cassandra Clare ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” by Becky Chambers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Shadow and Bone” by Leigh Bardugo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“A Deadly Education” by Naomi Novik ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Empress of Salt and Fortune” by Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Dungeon Crawler Carl” by Matt Dinniman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[womancorpse]

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

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

[woodtoc]

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

[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

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

I hear my own voice whispering, "I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go home," although where is home if not there?

Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

[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.