I’ve read three books by David Mitchell and he hasn’t disappointed me yet. Even better, the three books are completely different — Cloud Atlas spans many different time periods and characters, from prehistoric to future, Black Swan Green is about teens in 1980s England, and Thousand Autumns is a historical novel about Dutch trade in…
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Yesterday I Read Outside: I’ve Missed You, Sun
Yesterday I sat outside and ate my lunch and read David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It was freakishly hot outside, around 70, and felt much warmer in the sun. It was, in a word, glorious. Okay, I’m a warm-weather-loving child of Arizona, and like a plant I need sun. I especially…
Which Fantasy/SF Books will become Classics?
Jessica from On A Pale Star has posted a cool link to a couple of recent posts on the SF Signal. They asked fantasy and science fiction authors to answer the question: Which science fiction and fantasy books written in the last ten years will become classics? This isn’t a poll or a literary critique;…
The Book Stop 