2015 reading challenge: march

Reading of the month:
"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

"Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history."

Oh, for this month reading challenge, I couldn't decide which book I should read: this book or "Measuring the World".

In the end, I decided to read "Cloud Atlas". Before I bought it, I read many reviews with many different opinions. And even if they diverge, I am oh so very curious about this book. And just in time for my decision, they showed the movie on TV - I didn't watched it from the beginning but what I watched was interesting. Though I am a bit scared about the amount of pages (528 pages) the language, (David Mitchell made up a language of his own) and the change of  the stories, taking place in different times, I am ready to tackle this challenge. Let's see how I will get through this book. I already see myself staying up late at night, reading, to finish this book in time...

Happy Reading!

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