Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is a sublime modern novel in the classic style, and one of the best things I've read in a *long* time.
And since we are in the depths of winter here in Australia, I have a Winter Reading List instead -
Currently reading:
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Then:
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro (short storie…
Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is a sublime modern novel in the classic style, and one of the best things I've read in a *long* time.
And since we are in the depths of winter here in Australia, I have a Winter Reading List instead -
Currently reading:
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Then:
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro (short stories by a master novelist)
Phase Six - Jim Shepard (novel by a master short story writer)
Collected Stories - Shirley Hazzard (underrated Australian writer; somewhere in the weird territory between Katherine Mansfield and Shirley Jackson, by way of Alice Munro)
Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is a sublime modern novel in the classic style, and one of the best things I've read in a *long* time.
And since we are in the depths of winter here in Australia, I have a Winter Reading List instead -
Currently reading:
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Then:
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro (short stories by a master novelist)
Phase Six - Jim Shepard (novel by a master short story writer)
Collected Stories - Shirley Hazzard (underrated Australian writer; somewhere in the weird territory between Katherine Mansfield and Shirley Jackson, by way of Alice Munro)