Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Dana’s October Choice that she was quite late in posting!!! There is a picture but I will have to wait until I get to better cell coverage for it to upload!  Ahhh, the joys of living in the country.

I gave it a PRI of 8.5 hedging my bets because it was so kind of out there, the group gave it an ARI of 9.5 because this book ROCKS!!

From The New York Times - 

From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How it’s Done - “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” a follow-up to Doerr’s best-selling novel “All the Light We Cannot See,” is, among other things, a paean to the nameless people who have played a role in the transmission of ancient texts and preserved the tales they tell. But it’s also about the consolations of stories and the balm they have provided for millenniums. It’s a wildly inventive novel that teems with life, straddles an enormous range of experience and learning, and embodies the storytelling gifts that it celebrates. It also pulls off a resolution that feels both surprising and inevitable, and that compels you back to the opening of the book with a head-shake of admiration at the Swiss-watchery of its construction.

I loved this story because it took three very different stories and somehow magically wove them into one beautiful story.