Reading as a Kind of Meditation
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Digital ...
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Digital ...
(This is No. 43 in our series of Public Service Films, following the success of No. 42, How Not To Be ...
I LOVED Amanda Nelson‘s recent Banana Karenina post. I would eat that post up with a spoon if people were allowed ...
If all you know about David Mitchell and Cloud Atlas is what you’ve seen in the epically long trailers for ...
I’m feeling like a reading underachiever this week, y’all, but I’m hoping to make up for it ASAP. As you read ...
After last week’s reading successes (four books finished and not a single DNF!), I was feeling pretty confideny (probably too confident) ...
Even with the sad (or happy, depending on your Tobey Maguire-ness) news that The Great Gatsby movie’s been delayed until ...
This winter, my Confidence Index on the film of Cloud Atlas was skeptical. OK, OK, I put on my Doubting ...
David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas is one of those books you love all the more because the worlds it ...
Among the ways I’m grateful to have been introduced to David Mitchell’s novels, one is that I had no preconceptions ...
The sight of Halle Berry and Brad Pitt chills my blood. Trust me, I’ve seen them. The pair stalk the ...
