Reader’s Note
9 out of 10
Weirdly cosy for a book about everyone dying.
by@tinyapartmentbigtbrWritten 7 March 2026Read 3 March 2026Edited 10 March 2026
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Station ElevenEmily St. John MandelIn the Margins
Station Eleven reviewed by @commuterfiction
An actor dies on stage during King Lear and a flu arrives in the same week. Twenty years later a group of musicians and actors walk between settlements in Michigan performing Shakespeare. A comic book connects them.7 out of 10@commuterfiction
Station Eleven reviewed by @quietcarriage
Read a novel about the end of the world on public transport, surrounded by strangers coughing, and I'd do it again! The Travelling Symphony in the snow. Survival is insufficient, yes, fine, put it on a caravan — it worked on me.9 out of 10@quietcarriage
Station Eleven reviewed by @kepler22b
structurally excellent, epidemiologically silly8 out of 10@kepler22b
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