Omeir: boy born with cleft pallet who goes with his oxen to the siege of Constantinople Himerius: boy who rows Anna to priory ruin to look for loot Licinius: tutor who teaches Anna to read on the sly Trustyfriend: owl in Seymour’s backyard forest In and Near ConstantinopleĪnna: orphan living in the embroidery house of Nicholas Kalaphates Seymour Stuhlman: only child of a single mom who is radicalized as a teenager. Boydstun: marries Zeno’s father when Zeno is a child Miss Cunninghams: Twin sisters who are librarians in Lakeport during Zeno’s childhood Olivia Ott: one of the children rehearsing Cloud Cuckoo Land in 2020 Natalie Hernandez: one of the children rehearsing Cloud Cuckoo Land in 2020Ĭhristopher Dee: one of the children rehearsing Cloud Cuckoo Land in 2020 Rachel Wilson: one of the children rehearsing Cloud Cuckoo Land in 2020 and Konstance’s great-grandmother Marian: Library Director at Lakeport Public LibraryĪlex Hess: one of the children rehearsing Cloud Cuckoo Land in 2020 Sharif: Children’s librarian at Lakeport Public Library Zeno Ninis: Octogenarian, former prisoner of war and translator of Cloud Cuckoo Land
Flowers: Head Librarian on Argos In Lakeport, Idaho Konstance: child living on Argos far in future Or pair this novel with The Personal Librarian and talk about the importance of books in our lives and for humanity Characters In Cloud Cuckoo LandĪntonius Diogenes: author of Cloud Cuckoo Land within the novelĪethon: Shepherd and central character in the book by Antonius Diogenes who transforms into a donkey, then into a fish, then into a crow On Argos
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You can create a theme around the environment with a series of book discussions such as discussing Where the Crawdads Sing and Flight Behavior.
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You can find resources on /resources and learn how to move to cleaner fuels through electricity at. There are many resources online to support a rich discussion on climate ate action and what we each can do. I also highly recommend Doerr’s novel All the Light We Cannot See as a novel for discussion. He delves into so many of the themes below and so many more- mortality, the value of books, what our own Cloud Cuckoo Land is as well as the historical context for the stories within the novel. I suggest an interview with Victoria A Carthew of QBD where Anthony Doerr talks about the “poetry of sentences,” his fascination with learning about the walls of Constantinople and how they protected texts, and the fragility of memory. I often find an interview with an author to provide me a new perspective on the novels I read. I recommend reading the book before the guide. Note that this guide, like all of the guides, may contain spoilers. Truly an outstanding read, 5 stars both for personal enjoyment in reading and as a book discussion centerpiece.
As a reader I thought about the legacy I leave, a lot about philosophy and what is out in the universe. Beyond these interwoven themes, there is much to discuss. Our interconnectedness through time and space, climate action and holding onto stories and being stewards of books are explored from multiple perspectives, as the story of Cloud Cuckoo Land is preserved through the efforts of each of the characters. Then I became invested in each of the main characters and their interconnections and couldn’t put the book down. In addition I was drawn in by the writing- I could see, feel and hear the characters and their environments- the rot on the pages of the folio, Anna and Himerius wrapped in fog, the sterility in the vault on Argos, the tangled beauty of Father’s farm 4 on Argos, Zeno’s grief recognizing Rex’s love for Hilary, the sound of the root beer cans tumbling onto the floor, the immensity of the cannon and the weariness of the oxen Moonlight and Tree pulling it along. I found this level of complexity appealing. There are five different character perspectives, three of whose stories start in the middle and then backtrack, and three completely different timelines in three very different geographical locations. There is a lot to keep track of in this novel.
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