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[namaste]

Finished reading "Cloud Atlas" the other day. I really enjoyed it, thought it was clever both in terms of the variety of writing styles he used and how the whole book was shaped. Still uncertain whether I'd call it a novel as one specific story, though, or more of a series of loosely linked novellas. Not that it wasn't enjoyable, just ... mulling it over yet.

Reading Anthony Bourdain's "Medium Raw" now and have two more books still on the reserve list at the library, waiting for them to come up. (Pearl Buck in China and The Warmth of Other Suns, about the migration from the rural south to industrial northern US.)

Working on a one-shot Nolan-POV fic, which I'd love to wrap up by Sunday since I've signed up to attempt NaNoWriMo this year.

Also need to get my crap together again and send out more submission info for my kid's book in search of an agent/publisher. I've received two rejections so far -- one publisher, one agent -- and need to get it out in front of a lot of other folks.

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[nightdog_barks]

Oh, I'm so glad you liked Cloud Atlas! You might also enjoy Ghostwritten -- it's similar in structure to Atlas, but the individual stories, I think, are connected a bit more obviously, making for more of a single, overarching tale.

The Warmth of Other Suns sounds really good -- I saw the review in the NY Times and made a note of it because it sounded intriguing.

[namaste]

I'll let you know what I think of "Warmth of Other Suns." Here in the Detroit area, obviously, we've got a lot of folks from that migration, so I think it'll be interesting.