Cloud Atlas

I seem to be on a run of David Mitchell at the moment, here's the trailer for the forthcoming Cloud Atlas movie:

.. to be released in October! (h/t bookriot and twitter's suzyklein)

Mutterings - 29th July

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Alcohol :: Swab
2. Pocket :: Handkerchief
3. Squeeze:: Friendly
4. Football :: Goal
5. Fourth :: July
6. Snake :: Ladder
7. Reduced :: Bonus
8. Polka :: Dot
9. Intrepid :: Traveller
10. Paula :: Radcliffe (there's some Olympics consciousness there!)

Teaser Tuesday - 24th July

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Late again! I hope things will get back to normal next week! Another teaser from a book read on holiday, I read this one on the boat on the way home..

Dad was telling Mum a funny story about how his boss Craig Salt'd let Dad's trainee Danny Lawlor drive Criag Salt's DeLorean sports car round a go-karting track on a team building weekend. So instead of sloping off upstairs I went into the living room to watch Tomorrow's World on TV.

As you may guess this is set in the 80s lots of loving period detail! David Mitchell's Black Swan Green I'm not sure whether you had to be there then to appreciate this book and its study of adolescence but I was and I did!

Mutterings - 22nd July

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Missing :: in action
2. Crowded :: Room
3. Questions :: Answers
4. Flavored :: Sweets
5. Need you :: Role
6. Control :: Alt
7. Restaurant :: Menu
8. Scattered :: Ashes
9. Family :: Gathering
10. Regrets :: Sad

Teaser Tuesday - 17th July

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

A little late but having just got back from holiday...

That is one of the many legacies left by your friend Dr. Eckman. I am sure there are more I have yet to come across. In the brief amout of time he was with us he managed to teach Easter the fundamentals of table manners as well as the alphabet, or most of the alphabet. I see the K is missing.

4 sentences I know! From Ann Patchett's State of Wonder. Here's Patchett talking about the book:I must read Conrad's Heart of Darkness, I was thinking of JG Ballard - someone she doesn't mention in that interview - and his Illuminated Man. Pay close attention to the opera visit and the Orpheus myth! I much enjoyed her Bel Canto but I think this is better. Very much recommended, we were about to head out for dinner (on holiday) and I decided I just had time to read the last chapter, I wasn't quite prepared for all that happens in those last few pages!

Faculties included?

The Churchfitters, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

We spotted this poster in Bourg near Trégastel in Brittany. I see from their website they're originally a UK group which moved to Brittany in 1993

Mutterings - 8 July

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Purple :: Robe (argh - Graham Kendrick ;-))
2. Staying power :: Determination
3. Human :: Kind
4. Garden :: Flowers
5. Missing :: Link
6. Sucked :: Blew
7. Next door :: Neighbour
8. Poker :: Dot.. bikini (yes I know it should be polka!)
9. Strategy :: Plan
10. Crushed :: Velvet

Teaser Tuesday - 3rd July

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

We are suddenly awakening, much too late, to the fact that we have been gorging at Belteshazzar's table, that blind pursuit of greed has made us skeletons at the feast.
At some future point in time, tar balls from a warm-water spill -- if not from the Gulf of Mexico then from some other blow-out -- will show up in Alaska waters to mingle with the crud left from the Exxon Valdez

a mediation on the damage we are doing to our world also - as last week - from Maggie Ross's Writing the Icon of the Heart. She has spent much time over the years in the wilderness and silence of Alaska.
(blogger tells me this is my 2000th post on this weblog not as much appearing here as in the past)

Mutterings - 1st July

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Cycle :: Tyre
2. Pimple :: Spot
3. Tailspin :: Aircraft
4. Contact :: First
5. Prepaid :: Bill
6. Tremors :: Earth
7. Disgusting :: Allergy
8. Instrumental :: Solo
9. Taken :: Tablet
10. Forward :: Roll