Thumbs upon Cloud Atlas!

[Glenn Scheper]

The cover belies it is not cloud-ATLAS, as I thought, but CLOUD-atlas.

After 13 hours at the computer, I thought I'd take a break. (Mitchell
would have chosen respite, which I had to look up to spell, or some
even better word.) And went to B&N to purchase Cloud Atas. Only $14.

I sought out a Dennys on the sideroads back, but don't know the town
of my employment as well as I thought, and settled on a nature park.

Planning to read a line atop each page, I started on page one, and
I didn't surface til I was yearning for younger eyes and more sunlight.
Why, I've read 22 pages! A picture and subtitle on page 40 prove I'm
more that half-way through a sixth of the first half of the Book!

If I were a student, I'd have to consult the dictionary many times
a page, but in my old age, I'm convinced Mitchell has adequately
taught me some useful new words and phrases from context. Those I
lack didn't hamper the read. Those I knew, he employed precisely.

He scooted me along without the fear that I'd have to remember all
these names and incidents later in the book, although I might.

Twice at the end of a paragraph, he dropped hints of knowing deeper
truths, and I relish he will reveal them. My, I'm talking about
character Ewing as if he were Mitchell!

I'll volunteer to host a slot. But not at the book's beginning, nor
the end of July, when I plan to retrieve my wife from the east coast.
That's why I'm working so hard. The prospect of a vaction... How did
he word it? "Please think about this and let's talk about any kind
of arrangement that we can make that will reduce the impact of your
absence on the project."--And that was only in May.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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