Birthday

I am 29 now, going on 30.
I wear my hair parted to the left.
I let my cat lick the last of the milk out of my cereal bowl every morning.
I drink instant coffee at work.
I drink tea at home.
I learned to like aubergines.
I still love crisps.
I cook. A lot.
I can run longer now than I ever could before.
I am still in love.
I read more than most, less than I want.
I am far away from my family.
I sleep on my stomach.
I get too hot in baths.
I plan to live all over the world.
I feel like a kid.

number9dream - David Mitchell

number9dream - David Mitchell
May 2009

I am constantly amazed by David Mitchell's ability to write using different voices. In Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, the stories are disjointed, with stories nestled within stories, all told from different perspectives and by different people, yet each story is plausible and each voice is distinct. number9dream is stylistically different from both those books as it is more of a traditional narrative, but it dips into the fantastical and the breadth and pace of the story is staggering. I will read this book again, probably.