Goodreads blurb: 1 950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. Read it you wont regret it (just keep pushing past the first chapters like it did). IT is a disappointing and hopeful story all at once. How it all ties up together in the end was just a beauty of storytelling. Finally recently pushed by a friend I powered through and boy am I glad I did. I started it as soon as I got the ARC, and made it a couple of chapters until i let it go for a bit, only to revisit a couple of weeks later. I started this book probably like 3 times. I think at the end it was a total 5 out of 5 stars book for me. This was a hard book to rate and talk about. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.ī ound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Unknown, Sometime in the Future:With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Idaho, 2020: An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Goodreads blurb: When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive.How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.Ĭonstantinople, 1453:An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.

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