657: A Cloud Atlas with 12 Monkeys

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club reads “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel, a beautifully written story set in multiple timelines that—like her earlier novel “Station Eleven”—frustrated some, but not all, of our panelists. We also recommend a lot of other books to read!...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 657, March 2023.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.8	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:12.7	This is another one of our book club episodes.
0:14.3	We're trying to do more book club episodes this year.
0:16.4	Yeah, we are.
0:17.6	And at the end of the book club episode, we tell you the next book. And that's why I'd like
0:22.5	to mention that in the last book club episode, we said we would read C of Tranquility by Emily St. John
0:27.8	Mandel, the author of Station 11. And we did, or at least some of us did, and those people are here
0:33.4	because once you read a book for a podcast, you really ought to try to be on the podcast otherwise.
0:38.6	I mean, why would you read a book otherwise?
0:41.1	That doesn't sound right.
0:42.8	Anyway, let me introduce my readers.
0:45.0	Aline Sims is here.
0:45.9	Hello.
0:46.7	Hello, I read this book.
0:48.8	So I'm on the podcast.
0:50.0	Check.
0:51.1	Deb Stanish is back for more books.
0:53.5	Hi, Deb.
0:56.8	Hi. I read the book and I joined the Goodreads group. Oh, man. Wow. You are on it. You are on top of it. Um, Erica Ensign also here.
1:03.0	Also read the book. I did. I'm here to speak for the prairies of Canada. Thank you very much.
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