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Hey, so David Mitchell is really ****ing good

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: February 11, 2012
Yeah, that’s all, really. I read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet awhile back, and it was excellent. And then everyone I talked to about it said, “Have you read Cloud Atlas?? Read Cloud Atlas next! Do it! Read Cloud Atlas!” (By “everyone” I mean four people. But I think four people is actually [...]
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The Passage by Justin Cronin

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: October 14, 2010
I am not a fan of the vampire craze in today’s media, because I think that vampires are being horribly misused. Being bitten by a vampire should be a very bad thing, not simply the means by which one gets a fun superpower. If you want to write about vampires, you can do whatever the [...]
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Bright Star (2009)

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: May 2, 2010
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in the lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do no work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothens and emboldens the soul to [...]
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