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True True

By Rachel | October 27, 2012 by Rachel

We skipped work yesterday afternoon and went to see Cloud Atlas, which just opened at Canal Place. I read David Mitchell’s book three summers ago in Spain and was taken on a wild and delightful odyssey. The movie is worth a look, albeit I do agree with the NYT review that it too tightly controlled the message. And what is the message – that we are all interconnected by truth. And I’d like to actually…

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Chalk up another wonderful reading experience

By Rachel | December 10, 2010December 10, 2010 by Rachel

I put down David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and bit my lip last night on the last sentence. This is the second book by Mitchell that has held me spellbound with an intoxicating narrative. What Cloud Atlas did to acquaint me with his voice (or voices), The Thousand Autumns turned on its head, and I wonder if Mitchell isn’t the most talented writer of fiction alive. Oh, to have that much…