Can a book be whimsical and deadly serious at the same time? A grammar book, no less. In the history of my learning how to write, I have never gotten through the first few pages of a writing style book (Strunk and White, AP Stylebook, Chicago Manual of Style from the University of Chicago). They […]
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In his 2021 novel Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr masterfully fits disparate people – across centuries, across continents, across planets – into this story of how humans respond to the fall of empires, to environmental degradation, to civilizational collapse. Twining throughout these episodes or escapades, like a vine girding a tree or like an evocative sound […]
Dr. Bookworm 