Whatcha readin' this week? I'm still catching up on books I finished a while ago that I haven't had a chance to talk about. This week, it's "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by Anthony Doerr.
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Anthony Doerr’s novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. #booksky #pulitzerprize #historicalfiction #anthonydoerr #bookrecommendation #bookreview #books
I finished Anthony Doerr’s “About Grace” Saturday. It was his first book and not his best (hard to beat “Cloud Cuckoo Land” or the Pulitzer-prize winning “All The Light We Cannot See”) but it is still a wonderful read. The protagonist, David Winkler, is a flawed character haunted by his prescient dreams of tragic events to come, including one in which he accidentally drowns his infant daughter while trying to rescue her from a flood in their suburban Ohio home. As events begin to unfold that appears to make his nightmare about to come true, he flees the country, hoping that will change what would have been. That sets off a three-decade journey that ultimately leads him to face the choices he made. David Winkler is a good man, but he is at times awkward, stubborn and, for me, occasionally pathetic. The book is ultimately about fate and choice, self-discovery, grief, forgiveness and redemption.
I’m recommending Anthony Doerr’s “About Grace,” which I finished reading this past week. I’m a big Doerr fan and this, his first novel, did not disappoint. Read ALT for a mini review. #BlueBrewBooks #AnthonyDoerr #Books #Reading #Literature
Wat een goed boek, personages verbonden door een oud verhaal, door de eeuwen heen, elk karakter kruipt onder de huid. #anthonydoerr #boekenlezen
Good Sunday morning, Susan. Hope you are well. I’m well into Anthony Doerr’s Four Seasons in Rome, his 2007 memoir of the year he and his wife and their newborn twins lived in Italy while he was on a writing fellowship. Doerr’s prose as always is descriptively lush. #BlueBrewBooks #AnthonyDoerr
Whatcha readin' this week? "All the Light we Cannot See", by Anthony Doerr. A beautiful novel of courage and resilience set against the backdrop of World War II.
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I took this first picture on the way up to #Mont-Saint-Michel; Next, a waterway near #Dinan; An old #wood #building turned into an #epicerie in #Dinan; Majestic #Saint-Malo #Cathedral #Saint-Malo has grown in popularity due to the book and movie #AllTheLightWeCannotSee by #AnthonyDoerr
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 28
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This is a beautifully told story, that's haunting insight into how humans treat me another earned it a spot as one of my favourite books.
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Well, that's 5 hours I'll never get back. I was going to try to make it halfway, but I just couldn't torture myself anymore, so 33% it is. This jumps around to a bunch of different characters, none of them doing anything interesting and none of the "stories" seem to be related to one another. The writing isn't bad, but none of it seemed to lead anywhere. The .5 is for the guy turned into a donkey story (which was very short) and then the story about the autistic kid that described how tortured he was by sounds and smells at school and how things changed when he found noise dampening earmuffs.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
1.5 out of 5 Stars
DNF
Review in pic and alt text.
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Summer Books Update:
Finished ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’ by #ElifShafak. On to ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ by #AnthonyDoerr.
Of the six Shafak novels I have just read, this is the one I loved the least. Still have ‘The Flea Palace’ & ‘Honor’ to go and expect to love them.
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You guys!!! We just found out my 15 yo son has to read All The Light We Cannot See for a summer reading assignment. I am so pumped!!! We found it in a little bookstore while on vacation in San Francisco. Pumped to share this experience with him. 📖🥰
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This is one of those books (there are too many) that have been on my TBR for a long time. I’m happy to say I finally finished it and really enjoyed it.
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🔴2015 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Anthony Doerr's for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"
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Good mornin #booksky! 🌞
QOTD. Do you know of any literary events that happened on this day?
QOTD. Have you read any books from today's list?
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Does this happen to anyone else? Apropos of nothing, I have the overwhelming desire to read good essays and then write one of my own. Just finished #anthonydoerr 's "Things with Feathers that Perches in the Soul" 💯!! and am all hyped up to write my experience with a sea turtle who tried to kill me.
This book was made into a TV mini series starring #MarkRuffalo and #HughLaurie. A wartime story full of suspense that adapted well to the screen and moves along brilliantly. I just could not put it down #AnthonyDoerr #Allthelightwecannotsee
Good morning and happy Wednesday!
"The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness. With every dawn, we are given a chance for a new beginning."
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Have a wonderful day! 💜
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Choose 20 Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20
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Day 11: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Bild vom Buch „Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen“ von Anthony Doerr
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
12/20
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All the light you cannot see. Omg I fell in love with this book. #booksky #books #anthonydoerr
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Lectures de Voyage. Des livres que j’aime au fil de mes voyages.
Le superbe roman d’Anthony Doerr nous emmène à Saint-Malo à la fin de la guerre.
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The brain is locked in total darkness. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. So how does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
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All the Light We Cannot See.
Travel Readings. Books I love as I travel
“All the light we cannot see” by Anthony Doerr brings us in Saint-Malo for its finale, when the Americans liberated the city.
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#AlltheLightWeCannotSee by #AnthonyDoerr – Marie-Laure is blind and lives in Paris with her father. Werner and his sister Jutta are orphans and live near Essen. World War 2 looms, Marie-Laure is taken to stay with family in St Malo and Werner enters a training school.
