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accurate-ant · 5 months

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I don’t know if I’m late to the party here or anything, but I was just re-reading the pjo series and I Sea of Monsters the first time Percy meets the Laistrygonians he asks Annabeth for an easier name to call them and she says “Canadians.”

I just realized that Percy calling the Laistrygonians “Canadians” is Son of Neptune was a callback to Annabeth calling them that in Sea of Monsters. I thought he was just making fun of Frank.

That is all. Carry on.

#pjo #pjo series #annabeth chase #percy jackson #frank zhang #sea of tranquility #son of neptune

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wretchmp4 · 10 months

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i will never be able to stop thinking about this actually

#books #sea of tranquility #bookblr #emily st. john mandel

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theboyatthebustop · 6 months

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In honor of this post of mine getting over one hundred notes, I decided to do a sequel because I found some more

Edit: found some more

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lastseenleaving · 1 year

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Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel

"I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”

“But all of this raises an interesting question,” Olive said. “What if it always is the end of the world?”

She paused for effect. Before her, the holographic audience was almost perfectly still. “Because we might reasonably think of the end of the world,” Olive said, “as a continuous and never-ending process.”

#emily st john mandel #sea of tranquility #speculative fiction #literary scifi #science fiction #sff #sff reads #sff books #book recs #sci fi #literary fiction #booklr #books that destroyed me

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peetapiepita · 1 year

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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.

#rant #writers #a room of one's own #taylor jenkins reid #tjr #emily st. john mandel #daisy jones and the six #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #carrie soto is back #malibu rising #station eleven #sea of tranquility #the glass hotel

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womancorpse · 4 days

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

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

#emily st. john mandel #sea of tranquility #quote #currently reading

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literary-illuminati · 7 months

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Book Review 50 – Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

I read this book over the course of one day and two flights,, which on the one hand was probably not the best way to do it but on the other is kind of appropriate given the prominence of travel and dislocation to the narrative. Anyway, reading so quickly and then spending a week on vacation without time to work on this review does mean that my thoughts are all a bit vague and muddled, so apologies about that in advance. Anyways!

The only other work of St. John Mandel’s I’ve read was Station Eleven, which was easily one of the best things I read last year and good enough to put this on my TBR as well. I went in basically entirely blind, beyond the basics of ‘time travel’ and ‘COVID novel’. It might just be that my expectations were too high, but frankly I found it a fairly disappointing read, and pretty strictly inferior to Station Eleven in just about everything – the later even manages to be a better pandemic novel despite the handicap of being published in 2014. My main reaction to finishing it was something along the lines of ‘that’s it?’ and then going back to staring down at the clouds.

The book jumps POVs a fair bit, but the deuteragonists are an author on a global book tour in the days before a pandemic sweeps the world (and moon) in the 22nd century, and a bit of an aimless failson in the 23rd who gets a job investigating a temporal anomaly through the power of nepotism and goes back to interview her and a few others across the centuries who were touched by it. The detective is the one who drives essentially all of the plot and makes all the choices – none of the POVs are really filled with a surfeit of passion or drive, the author is the only one who seems to particularly like her life – but by wordcount and focus I very much got the sense that the author was far more of the book’s emotional heart than the 20th or 21st century POVs. (Which is something of a shame, because I found both of them rather more compelling in the screentime they did have, being honest).

The plot is, well, thin. Our 23rd century POV (a hotel detective) is repeatedly told that he will be tempted to do something (save the author from her scheduled pandemic death) and warned of consequences if he does, repeatedly promises that he will not, and then as soon as the chance presents itself does the thing with basically no warning or introspection, after which he faces almost exactly the consequences he was warned of. He is then saved through the power of a supergenius sister ex machina, and the whole anomaly is tied up in a neat time loop in a vague reality-as-narrative sort of way. As a work that’s more literary than genre the characters all felt kind of flat and static, no one ever really surprised or fascinated me.

And as far as it as a science fiction novel goes, I don’t know – there’s a decent chance it’s a much more impressive read if you haven’t zoned out scrolling past dozens of pages of earnest debate on the simulation hypothesis and read/watched however many different time loop stories before? It could have all fit pretty nicely in a mid-season Doctor Who episode, honestly, and I don’t really mean that as a compliment.

Emotionally, the experience of living through COVID is pretty clearly at the heart of the thing. Both the sense of pure terror at realizing your survival is a matter of luck and statistics, the isolation and alienation from the world that’s part and parcel of lockdown, the sort of awesome horror at looking back across history and realizing how totally unremarkable seeing such mass death around you is over the centuries, how in a generation it will be nothing but a bit of trivia. This stuff was definitely more compelling than the rest of the book, though it did fall prey to a rapidly growing pet peeve of mine and just kind of forgot all the ‘essential workers’ who weren’t doctors or nurses and just kind of write them out of the universal pandemic lockdown experience.

Anyway yeah, not in any sense a badly written book, but I found it a disappointment.

#book review #sff #sea of tranquility #emily st john mandel #lit

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quiltofstars · 9 months

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The Apollo 11 landing site (marked) in Mare Tranquillitatis ("The Sea of Tranquility") // Mike

#astronomy #astrophotography #solar system #moon #the moon #luna #lunar surface #lunar maria #maria #sea of tranquility #mare tranquillitatis #history #apollo #apollo 11 #moon landing

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supernutellastuff · 9 months

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Yooo I just read station eleven it was fantastic

(saw your tag on a post)

Also I really want to see those graphic novels it’s a shame they’re not real

Hiii I love Station Eleven so much. I can go on for years about it!

I first read it in December 2019, when news of coronavirus was just breaking. So that was obviously an anxiety-provoking experience haha. And then I re-read it last year, "post pandemic", and it holds up so well! Apocalyptic/sci-fi stories that centre the beauty of humanity, art, music, culture, cooperation, community, etc is one of my fav genres (re Mad Max Fury Road, Arrival, etc.). And yes my favourite bit was those graphic novels, it was so satisfying to read how she came up with the idea, the description of the text and the artwork - and it was brilliant to see how it touched multiple lives. I want to read them too!

Have you watched the HBO show based on the book? I still haven't, I'm a little scared it might not capture the book's essence haha. Also, I recommend the author's other books - Glass Castle and Sea of Tranquility - they don't reach the heights of Station Eleven imo but they're still pretty good, and they're set in parallel/overlapping timelines so some familiar characters turn up :)

#station eleven #books i love #emily st john mandel #the glass castle #sea of tranquility #asks

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macademmia · 9 months

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FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009) dir. WES ANDERSON / SEA OF TRANQUILITY (2022) by EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL

#webweave #do you get it!!! do you???#webweaving #fantastic mr fox #sea of tranquility #emily st john mandel #literary

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nilesandcc · 7 months

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@dollsome-does-tumblr tagged me to post my top 9 books! someone anyone anywhere talk to me about these books!!

tagging: @takingtheuniverse @ccbabcock @clumsycapitolunicorn @deeneedsaname @evandstuff @kassandra-lorelei @platypus-quacks-too @peetamellarkthebaker

#the history of love #rebecca #pretty girls #false witness #station eleven #sea of tranquility #project hail mary #gone girl #my dark vanessa #books books books

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remindmetoreed · 3 months

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“It’s possible to be grateful for extraordinary circumstances and simultaneously long to be with people you love” — Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

#remindmetoreed #books #sea of tranquility #emily st john mandel #scifi #science fiction #bookblr #reading #bookworm #book lover #bookish #bibliophile #book blog #quotes #speculative fiction

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mack-anthology-mp3 · 4 months

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thinking about the line in sea of tranquility 'we all secretly long for a world with less technology'. yeah.

#sea of tranquility #emily st john mandel #ngl i feel that line #take me back to before i could work the internet i miss it but at the same time. all the information the media the people #but i do miss the simplicity #i wish things worked less well sometimes #idk #anyways\#books

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eclipse-of-luna · 6 days

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Something is very wrong

#zampanio #sea of tranquility

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ofliterarynature · 1 year

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2022 YEAR END WRAP UP

This post is coming at y'all a little late because I was definitely overthinking things - but "favorite" doesn't really convey the differences between "I loved this," "I can't stop thinking about this," and "I need to yell at someone about this," does it? With that in mind, here's my 10 favorite reads of 2022 and 15 runners up 💕📚💕

Victoria Goddard – The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul, Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander, At the Feet of the Sun, The Saint of the Bookstore

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) by Anne Leckie

Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi

Band Sinister by K.J. Charles

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

Midnight Never Come (The Onyx Court) by Marie Brennan

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L Sayers

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales) by Olivia Atwater

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

A Master of Djinn by P Djeli Clark

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

Forget the Alamo by Burrough, Tomlinson, & Stanford

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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brendentheboogaloo · 5 months

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a cover of sea of tranquility by the Music Tapes. i wanna upload another version that records vocals and guitar separately but i have papers to grade so this is all youre getting for now. i love this song. its currently the song i most associate with my current tabletop, which is full of suffering and love and love and love and love.

#brenden the boogaloo #sea of tranquility #music tapes #the music tapes

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