{"id":2462,"date":"2016-03-13T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2016-03-13T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:11:15","slug":"book-log-18-cloud-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #18: Cloud Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cloud Atlas<\/em> by David Mitchell [Amazon, Kindle, $11.99]<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I read this before <em>Station Eleven<\/em>, book log #17.  As I mentioned in that log, the two both have a slow reveal of multiple interconnecting storylines.  <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book quite a bit.  It has a fugue pattern, changing from story to story, and then returning to the stories in reverse order in the latter half of the book. I really enjoyed the first part of the fugue, but was less enthused about the return trip.  I&#8217;m not sure why.  The storylines were all interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Glad I read it, though.  Great characters, great writing.<\/p>\n<p>52 Books\/Year Update: 18 books, 10 weeks.  1.8 ratio, targeting > 1.0.<\/p>\n<p>In Hornby style, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on deck:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World&#8217;s Favorite Board Game<\/em> by Mary Pilon<\/li>\n<li><em>Bleak House<\/em> by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n<li><em>Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners, 2nd Edition<\/em> by Warren and Carter Sande<\/li>\n<li><em>Weighing Shadows<\/em> by Lisa Goldstein<\/li>\n<li><em>What If?<\/em> by Randall Munroe<\/li>\n<li><em>The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped In An IKEA Wardrobe<\/em> by Romain Puertolas<\/li>\n<li><em>No Country for Old Men<\/em> by Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n<li><em>A Blink of the Screen, Collected Short Fiction<\/em> by Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell [Amazon, Kindle, $11.99] Actually, I read this before Station Eleven, book log #17. As I mentioned in that log, the two both have a slow reveal of multiple interconnecting storylines. I enjoyed this book quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512,481,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-book-log","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}