I’m going to say the words that few book lovers ever utter. I completely understand if, from this moment on, no one ever trusts my judgement again. I can’t even trust my judgement anymore. But… *deep breath* The movie was better than the book. I know, I know! Blasphemy! But the fact still remains, the Wachowski siblings and Tykwer were able to pull it off where Mitchell mostly floundered. (Not that the movie was a cinematic masterpiece, but I feel like I “got” what they […]
Black Swan Green
If you’ve never read anything by David Mitchell I highly recommend starting with Black Swan Green. Mitchell is a beautiful writer with elegant turns of phrase and vivid descriptions, even when covering a slice out of the life of a lonely-ish 13-year-old boy in the early 1980s in small town England. Jason Taylor is the youngest child of a grocery store chain manager and a bored lonely housewife growing up in the town of Black Swan Green, a town that has no greens and no […]
A fascinating labyrinth of a novel
I read Cloud Atlas two years ago and liked it but didn’t LOVE it. I thought the end didn’t quite come together the way Mitchell wanted it to. I was definitely reluctant to dive into The Bone Clocks, because it *is* a heavy book. But I’m really glad I did–I think I like this better than Cloud Atlas! It all starts when Holly Sykes runs away from home in the 1980s. She is telepathic, with the ability to “hear” people inside her mind, and her […]
Worst. Review. Ever.
I waited too long to write a decent review for a book this ambitious. It really sucks, but the book doesn’t.
Like Cloud Atlas, only better
Hoo boy. I said 2014 would be my Year of Big Books and this is most definitely a Big Book in all senses of the word. It is close to 600 pages in hardback with fairly small print, so it’s literally big. It covers a span of over fifty years and many characters, so it’s figuratively also big. And it’s not actually published until September 2nd 2014, so the fact that I have been able to read an advance copy is frankly HUGE. The proof […]
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