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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
I started reading this book in 2011, but gave up a few pages in. I held on to it because I loved the title and had a feeling I'd eventually give it another go. This past year my brother gave me David Mitchell's latest book, The Bone Clocks, and asked if I'd ever read Cloud Atlas. Embarrassed, I had to tell him I tried but had given up. So, guilted into a second try, I picked this up just before a recent vacation and absolutely devoured it. Funny how a few years changed my taste. Each story took a bit of warming up to really capture my attention, but I enjoyed the feeling of falling into each world and discovering the bits linking each person and story together (however hokey and contrived... I'm a sucker for coincidence). And with the final chapter of Adam Ewings' diary, I finally felt a wonderful revelation of the sense of humanity that truly ties each character together. This was an intriguing read full of inventiveness, a wonderful challenge, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in history and science fiction... but I'd also recommend it to anyone, really.