I’m not sure why I decided on this one. Maybe I was tired of the Doom Scrolling and wanted to expand into Doom Reading? Taking place years after a pandemic has wiped out the vast majority of the world’s population, Station Eleven recounts the intertwined lives of a traveling Shakespearean acting troupe while they tour the scattered settlements of the latter day Great Lakes region, an aging Hollywood actor, his one time wife and author of the eponymous graphic novel, and a directionless survivor of the first, terrifying wave of the mysterious flu. It was comforting experiencing the narrative from the armchair of an expert - pandemics don’t move quite like it does here, and the total collapse of society has certainly been a bit more protracted than all that. Some of the flairs here seemed self indulgent, but nothing stopped me from putting Station Eleven down.