Skip to content

bookskeptic.com

  • About
  • Reading History
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • To Be Read
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • Projects and Challenges
    • 12 Museums for 2022
    • 12 Plays for 2022
    • #20BooksofSummer 2021
    • #20booksofsummer 2020
    • #20booksofsummer 2019
    • 12 bookshops for 12 months
    • #20booksofsummer 2018
    • #20booksofsummer 2017
    • #20booksofsummer 2016
    • Reading Ireland Month 2016

Tag: Station Eleven

Books for the Lockdown – Dystopian and Depressing

On March 30, 2020March 24, 2020 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

Another week of the lockdown passed. I’m sure all of us are getting a bit antsy by now. Hopefully, all of you and your loved ones are healthy and safe. Last week we looked at happy and funny books. This week we’ll take another tack – going down the dystopian and apocalyptic route. If you …

Continue reading Books for the Lockdown – Dystopian and Depressing

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

On January 14, 2016January 12, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews5 Comments

This book was generally classified as science fiction, which is probably why it took me so long from buying it to reading it. I like science fiction but only from time to time, I guess I’m not the technology type, but I do like sci-fi that probes the big questions: what makes us human, how …

Continue reading Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 496 other subscribers

Present

  • A Pause
  • The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
  • A Long Way Off/ Daleko, dalej – Pascal Garnier
  • Charles Dickens Museum – 12 Museums for 2022

Past

Categories

  • Quotes
  • Reviews
  • Thoughts
  • Uncategorized

Tags

#12bookshopsfor12months #20boksofsummer #20booksofsummer #20booksofsummer20 #20BooksofSummer21 #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Andrzej Sapkowski book book haul book review book reviews books Canada Crime crime fiction Elena Ferrante Elizabeth Strout fiction Ian McEwan Ian Rankin Ireland Jeanette Winterson John Grisham Jo Nesbo Julian Barnes Kapka Kassabova Kate Atkinson Kazuo Ishiguro London Margaret Atwood Neil Gaiman New York non-fiction Olga Tokarczuk Poland quotes Rebecca Solnit review round up Shirley Jackson short stories Stephen King The United Kingdom Thoughts Thriller Toni Morisson travel United Kingdom United States warsaw
  • View bookskeptic’s profile on Facebook
  • View @booksceptic’s profile on Twitter

Blogroll

  • A Note From Abroad
  • the blue bore
  • The Daily Dosage
  • Leaping Life
  • bookssavetheworld
  • Lady Fancifull
  • Duchess Reading
  • Real Life Reading
  • The Bookshelf of Emily J.
  • thelibrarylizard.wordpress.com/
  • FictionFan's Book Reviews
  • Words And Peace
  • The Reading Bug
  • London In Photos
  • Worn Corners
  • Tony's Reading List
  • The Bibliophile Struggle
  • mirabile dictu
  • Savidge Reads
  • Laura Broadberry
  • Tara Sparling writes
  • Tales from the Reading Room
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
  • 746 Books
  • the knitted footballer
  • BeeOrdiway
  • The 100 Greatest Books Challenge
  • Reading To Remember
  • CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment
  • She Reads Novels
  • Beyond Eden Rock
  • The Critiquing Chemist
  • cup of tea with that book, please
  • Cameron Book Reviews
  • middle, beginning & end – The Book Review
  • Book Snob
  • ireadnovels
  • Bits & Books
  • Asylum
  • WOCreads
  • Fig and Thistle
  • Sorry Television
  • Tea & Paperbacks
  • British Museum blog
  • bhaktimotta
  • Travels Food
  • BaileyBee
  • Consumed by Ink
  • The Perks of Being a Bookworm
  • Distant Drumlin
  • inkyspells
  • A reader's footprints
  • rants and raves of a bibliophile
  • ReadandReview2016
  • The Hungry Monster Book Review
  • Iconic Photos
  • Feminist Texican Reads
  • Spiral Spun
  • Reading Turtle Duck
  • booksaremyfavouriteandbest
  • Portobello Book Blog
  • BookerTalk
  • Simoneteffect – Pure Black & White
  • The Novel Eater
  • Ranty Runt of a Reader
  • The Writes of Woman
  • Reading the End
  • If You Can Read This
  • Thinking in Fragments
  • Big Reading Life
  • Tincture of Museum
  • 101 Books
  • Dream by Day
  • Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
  • CANVAS & QUILL
  • The Bookish Badger
  • Show This Book Some Love
  • If Books Could Blog
  • cupandpaper.
  • Happily Ever Bookish
  • KURTBRINDLEY.COM
  • RELATING TO HUMANS
  • The Bookworm Bistro
  • Lotus Book Blog
  • Dysfunctional Literacy
  • Penguin Blog
  • Novels & Teacups
  • http://bookowly.wordpress.com
  • Kate Beth Heywood
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
  • Donovan Reads
  • Brontë's Page Turners
  • photospace violetta kaszubowska
  • The Daily Post
  • The London Particular
  • Fleeting Brook
  • WordPress.com News
  • Shoshi's Book Blog
  • madame bibi lophile recommends
  • bookowly
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • thebookshelfblog
  • The Book Satchel
  • Damn Ugly Photography
  • My Book Strings
  • heavenali
  • Simonet – Pure Black & White
  • Drunk Off Rhetoric
  • Book Haunt
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • Read Diverse Books
  • Lisa Tiller
  • The WordPress.com Blog
  • Disco Demolition Night
  • bookskeptic.com
  • Cleopatra Loves Books
  • theliterarysisters
  • findingtimetowrite
  • Lizzy's Literary Life
  • Franklenstein
  • sunroseclear
  • 120secondbookreviews
  • Mike Finn's Fiction
  • Hard Book Habit
  • RatherTooFondofBooks

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    bookskeptic.com
    Join 496 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • bookskeptic.com
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy