We loved this book! Laura, Deb, Catherine and Margie shared additional information.

The New Yorker reviewer was not quite as taken as we were. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/anthony-doerrs-optimism-engine

Literary Mood Board: The delightfully obscure items that inspired Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land https://ew.com/books/cloud-cuckoo-land-anthony-doerr-literary-mood-board/

NPR Review:Anthony Doerr’s New Novel Spans Centuries, Yet Fits Together Like Clockwork https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1041004908/anthony-doerr-cloud-cuckoo-land-review

The New York Review of Books: The Other Rome (Incomplete article here. See Margie’s email for entire article.) https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/02/10/the-other-rome-peter-brown/