Just finished #reading #TheGlassHotel by #EmilyStJohnMandel This is an excellent book. #bookstodon #books

A new post at TheSupercargo. I'm reading Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau and Emily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel in tandem and finding points in common between these two widely different books.

https://thesupercargo.com/to-juneau-via-caiette-reading-diary/

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To Juneau via Caiette – reading diary - TheSupercargo

I'm currently reading Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban and The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel. Two books anchored in the same place.

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@colehaddon I'm really looking forward to prioritizing Emily St. John Mandel's work this year. My plan is to get through re-reads of #StationEleven and #TheGlassHotel before starting #SeaOfTranquility. #books #bookstodon #EmilyStJohnMandel
Kicking off here a thread of fave books I read this year. Some published in 2022, others earlier. One. #TheGlassHotel by #EmilyStJohnMandel, after loving #stationeleven. Both books explore (among other things) what happens when we lose our material wealth. What the Glass Hotel also explores is the morality of wealth acquisition - it is based, in part, on a famous Ponzi scheme that went belly up during the GFC. Mandel is a connoisseur of the #literarythriller - her writing is tense and lush, the worlds she creates intoxicating.
Next to #SeaOfTranquility by #EmilyStJohnMandel because it's pretty much the second book. Even if you can both books read as standalones they are heavily interwoven.
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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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