Podcasts about david mitchell's cloud atlas

I sat down with Bridget Scanlon to talk about David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004). It's a great read, both interesting for the story/stories it contains as well as it's stylistic and structural innovations. Bridget and I talk about the novel's Russian doll structure, which sections we like best, and why the movie adaptation didn't work so well. We also coin some new words!

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is most notable for its uniquely structured narrative, so it's only appropriate we made this the first book we cover while livestreaming for patrons! Other topics include Tom Hanks' henna tattoos, Yoko Ono husbands, and our favorite Disney princes. That's right, princes.

We've almost completed the circle! Join Jon, Katie and Sky as we pop in on Robert Frobisher, composer extraordinaire, and his struggles with the Ayers and Van de Velde families. Plus, the Return of the Musical Policeman! The penultimate chapter of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, this time on Interlibrary Loan.

"Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" So asks David Mitchell in his post-modern masterpiece Cloud Atlas. In many ways, it's a fitting question that sums up the book entirely. Cloud Atlas is composed of 6 stories each about bravery and resistance in their own ways. Throughout the book, each story looks at the figures on the cusp a revolution, turning the tide of either personal or far-reaching history. (i.e. the individual drops that form the ocean of revolution) Each story is told in a different style and genre, all nested within each other, creating a larger novel about how seemingly disparate narratives come together to tell a much larger and richer story. (i.e. drops forming an ocean.) See the pattern? This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Join us as we talk about post-modern story telling, why this book failed as a movie and the genius of Cloud Atlas. Then inspired by how immersive Cloud Atlas is, we chat about books with incredible world building.

It's many years since Alan Hollinghurst's last novel, The Line of Beauty, was published – a story so powerful that it beat David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas to win the 2004 Booker Prize. His follow-up, The Stranger's Child,