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It‘s late. I‘m still awake…but just barely!

So, I‘m kicking off my first official #Scarathlon2022 post of October with a podcast episode of GhostHoney‘s Dream Machine. Gentle chaos is just what I need to lull me into a sweetly spooky sleep.

With this post *and* my early bird entries, I‘ve got +56 points to start. 👻

Let‘s go, #TeamMonsterMash! Happy October! 🎃

The last book by Mitchell I read was a Pan. The more I enjoyed this one. This is Mitchell at his best. I love how he adds story to story and everything is a big puzzle. Couldn't stop reading, and happily this is a book one has to reread at some point to fully understand all the connections.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

At my parents' house (bubbled with them) and I love that I have a little cupboard of books I've read here... it's like going back in time reading-style (and there's another layer behind).
Some of these books were amazing ❤❤❤

This is a very clever book. At times I think it was maybe a bit too clever for me and required more concentration than I was capable of but I did enjoy when I noticed distant links between characters. I‘ve heard that‘s what David Mitchell is all about. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

#bookspinbingo

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?

#firstlinefridays

My 2 week staycation starts now! After reading @BookwormM ‘s great review of Utopia Avenue I figured this might be a good time to try David Mitchell. And if I like his first book, it will be just the excuse I need to go to the bookstore and buy more books!

David Mitchell's debut novel follows a series of characters whose lives are interconnected. If you like it, you will definitely like Cloud Atlas and Mitchell's other books.

I love everything David Mitchell does. I‘m always nervous approaching the early works of my favorite writers, but this was great, like seeing the blueprints for his later masterpieces.

Does anyone else stress out about finishing a book before going on vacation?? I do this to myself all the time, mostly because I hate traveling w/paper books and just use my kindle. I‘m trying to read 60+ pages every night for the next 3 days, on top of all the other vacation prep 😓 Lucky for me, I am loving this book, and Saturday I‘ll be in Spain 😊

A master at making the #complicated compulsively readable.

#augustgrrrl @Cinfhen

#aroundtheworld with books, option #2: David Mitchell's books travel the globe (and through time) to tell complex, multi layered, interconnected tales. The only one of his that I haven't loved was Number 9 Dream, am I alone in that?

#jubilantjuly @RealLifeReading

This is next up for me. I love David Mitchell, but I've never read this one, which is his debut novel.

Round 6 of our #tenatatime TBR project! I get really excited when I finish a stack and get to pick ten new ones! This also means that I've successfully read 50 books from our overflowing piles......I haven't been very successful at not adding too many new ones, though. It evens out, I guess. #toomanybooks. Now, what to read first?

Finished with a roaring headache, so I'm gobbling aspirin and chasing it down with cashew almond coconut chocolate butter. I wish I felt I'd understood this book more completely since it spoke to me in so many ways, but I think it will require a reread before I have a handle on it. Mitchell's prose is lovely, as always, and I enjoy running into the same characters in different books. Definitely a pick.

Been skiving off work this week since the boss hasn't had time to okay my outline. As a result I finished Bach and the High Baroque & A Thread of Grace, and began the audiobook of Ghostwritten which is incredibly unsettling, and The Ballad of Black Tom on Kindle. The pic is of the last of my recent ARCs which came in yesterday. Right now, though, I just want to sleep.

Meh. I powered through and finished it. The book is comprised of several stories that are interconnected. The first two or three were good and had me interested. The middle was rough for me though I can't say exactly why. They just didn't grab me. The last three were better. But this just wasn't the book for me. I just didn't get it.

I am completely stalled halfway through this one. I blazed through the first 65 pages or so and then hit a brick wall. It's been slow going since then so now the dilemma is do I power through the next 170 pages or come back to it later considering my TBR shelves are about to topple over from the weight?

Welcome to the 'I need more books like I need a hole in the head' International Edition. All of these came from England because...well...I am a sucker for covers that aren't easily found here LOL I think I will start with Ghostwritten it sounds very intriguing!

I LOOOOVED this book when I first read it back in 2015. It's David Mitchell's first novel and it's just so good and different. It's hard to explain what this is about - basically the world is connected in mysterious ways - but DM's writing is incredible, engaging, intelligent, and he makes each of his characters come alive. I'm a serious fan.

My other #orangecovers shoutout: A Manual for Cleaning Women, 5 🌟all around. #photoadaynov16

"The cruelest of the ancient emperors were kittens alongside this madman."

Still trying to finish Ghostwritten. Have been listening to A Bollywood Affair during my commute. #FridayReads

Blind date with a book... I love this idea! Turns out I've already read this one but it's nice to have a copy 😉

Have I mentioned how much I enjoy Mitchell? Cause I do. Really enjoying this one and I'm sad I haven't read it earlier.

Spending the summer reading David Mitchell, whom I love and adore.

My first David Mitchell. It took me a decade to get back to him. So many books, so little time 😕

Ah Spring night with an amazing author.

The first books I ever read by the author, and I was hooked. The writing style and the story telling are too both no matter what genre he touches. Well worth your time.