Reading: Station Eleven

Following up on my two previous posts about book recommendations. I now finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The book didn't disappoint. I watched the HBO series back in 2021 when it came out and it remains, in my opinion, the best TV shows I have ever watched. The book which was the source material, while differing in plot significantly, especially in the second part of the story, shares the same melancholy and nostalgia after lost world processed through art, memory and continuity ("survival is insufficient"). I really enjoyed the internal dialogue that the main character Kirsten goes through while navigating uncertainty, loss and violence. It was one of few books lately that really kept me on the edge. I read before sleeping and most often doze off after couple pages, this time on several occasions I was left with enough emotional impact that I found it hard to fall asleep and I'd love to keep reading but I knew I had to put it down as my alarm was going to…