CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr

​It's Thursday afternoon (in my time zone anyway), so it's time for a fun factoid! 

Where does the phrase cloud cuckoo land come from, you might be wondering?

The word cloud-cuckoo-land denotes a realm of fantasy, dreams or whimsical, foolish behavior. (Sounds like just my kind of realm!) And the term was coined by the Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes in The Birds. (Thank you, Google, for making me sound smart).

Anyway, moving on...I'm excited to be going into the weekend reading this next novel from Anthony Doerr, the Pulitzer-prize winning author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE.

The NYT review is calling CLOUD CUCKOO LAND  'an ode to storytelling.' 😍

Q: What will you be reading this weekend?

Brief Summary:
Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.

This just hit the shelves this week! Thank you Scribner and Simon & Schuster for the ARC!