A review by alliepeduto
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

4.0

I'm not totally sure how I feel about this. I did like it, but I honestly couldn't express why. I think it's something about the writing; it meandered and defied a strict timeline, and while I think in normal times this would drive me crazy, it completely worked for my quarantine squirrel brain. I think if I read this again I would take something completely different away, but for right now it was a pleasant distraction, and a sort of meditation on life. There is something about reading this book in this current environment that spoke to me, and it weirdly made me less stressed. I finished it today with a feeling of calm, which is really rare for me right now. I might read this again in the future and hate it, or I might love it even more, or I may never bother to think of it, but it did something for me in the present, and that's all I can ask from a book right now.