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A review by kareemartin
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
4.0
Such a strange book about pandemics, time travel, and the simulation hypothesis... or is it?
While it’s obvious the Covid-19 pandemic inspired many plot points of this book, the biggest take away for me was how our personal relationships and memories are what life is about. And little do you know the things that you’re chasing, make up your life.
My favorite excerpts:
“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
“But doesn’t everything seem obvious in retrospect?”
“...if definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
While it’s obvious the Covid-19 pandemic inspired many plot points of this book, the biggest take away for me was how our personal relationships and memories are what life is about. And little do you know the things that you’re chasing, make up your life.
My favorite excerpts:
“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
“But doesn’t everything seem obvious in retrospect?”
“...if definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”