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There have been quite a few books set in Toronto over the years!
One of the recent ones was Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. I read it when it first came out in 2014 and do remember enjoying it.
Since my brain has decided to only retain vague memories of what I liked about it and why, here is the official blurb :
Set in the days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
If you like books that are half science fiction and half literary fiction, you might enjoy this one!
Someday I’ll try to read it again and see if I can dislodge any old memories of it. Isn’t it irritating when you read a book but can’t remember much about it at all? 🙂
I’m good-naturedly shaking my fist at the person who came up with these prompts!
I’ve been looking forward to this week’s discussion ever since Long and Short Reviews first released their 20222 list of topics!
My choice for this week’s prompt is Mrs. Dorothy Quimby from the
If you can’t see the image attached to this post, I’m talking about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
In my case, this means trying meals from different African countries and cultures since none of the small towns I grew up in offered anything like that.
If this prompt had been scheduled for the winter or summer, I would have had a very different answer to it!
Not everything in our world is poetic or beautiful by any means, but my unique talent is finding the poetry and beauty in situations that at first glance do not seem to have a silver lining in them at all.