I have been really terrible about writing book reviews, but I have at least renewed my drive to read more. Mitchell is one of the easiest authors for me to jump into, and The Bone Clocks — which has sat on my shelf unread for over a year now — was a pretty easy read for me. I’ll try to put up the reviews for all the other books I have read before and after this one (I have about four others!) On to the review! […]
A small skirmish in the larger war of The Bone Clocks.
The Bone Clocks is one of my favorite books I read this year so I was very happy to learn David Mitchell was releasing a side story to it this October. Slade House takes place in the same universe as The Bone Clocks and returning readers will probably very quickly grasp what is going on before those that read it with no prior knowledge. There is a grimy passage off the beaten path in London called Slade Alley. Every 9 years a small iron door […]
Creepily Delicious
4.5 stars. I inhaled this slim David Mitchell novel in just a few hours yesterday. I was so pleased by Cloud Atlas earlier this year that I nearly jumped for joy when I heard he was putting out a haunted house story just in time for Halloween. I hardly ever dabble in the horror genre, but I’m glad I made an exception. While this book was definitely creepy, it wasn’t overly scary. It propelled me to keep reading and find out what happened next, but […]
The Only Thing Constant In Life Is Change
“What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.” I literally tried and failed 3 times to get into this book over several years, but I didn’t succeed until the 4th try. I have to say that it was definitely worth the effort! The problem was that in a book with 6 narrators, it begins with the least interesting and least accessible storyline. If you can just make it through the difficult […]
“Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.”
My book club’s May/June book is The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida (David Mitchell of Cloud Atlas fame spearheaded its English translation). I don’t personally know anyone on the autism spectrum, but I have acquaintances affected by this and I am always eager to learn more about the way we are and what it means to be a child with special needs and how they see the world differently than I. Naoki Higashida is a young man in Japan who was lucky enough to […]
Some books are a meal, The Bone Clocks is a banquet.
Even if you personally have a hand in a battle against good and evil that shook the very pillars of Heaven, when the smoke clears and the evil is vanquished eventually life will return to normal. While you were locked in your own high stakes fight billions of others walk through their day with their own joys and miseries, burdens and triumphs. While you may have won this particular battle ultimately you can’t save the world. The best you can do is save those you […]
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