What’s the longest you’ve taken to finish a book? Anthony Doer’s Cloud Cuckoo Land took me more than 4 months to finish. I wanted to really understand. It is about the quest for fantasylands or heaven by all of us. This book could be seen as a collection of short stories with each character narrating (Anna, Omeir, Zeno, Seymour, and Konstance) a different time (15th C, the 1950s, Korean War, 2020, and the future) and place (Constantinople, Idaho, and Outer Space) in a connected story. What links all the people, places, and time periods is Antonius Diogenes writes a story (Cloud Cuckoo Land) around the first century C.E. narrated by Aethon. He longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise. The different people, time periods, and places were all a bit overwhelming to me. Then one of the people in Bookclub said to watch for the owl and it would all start connecting. She was right! Another said to watch f...