{"id":585,"date":"2014-05-06T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2015-04-22T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T21:06:34","slug":"anthony-doerr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/anthony-doerr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Doerr Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"All<\/a>It’s finally here!\u00a0 Anthony Doerr Day!\u00a0 Have you heard the news? Today is pub day for Doerr’s brilliant new novel, All the Light We Cannot See<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s a magnificent novel, tightly constructed, nuanced, and featuring lovely, likeable young protagonists set against the horrific backdrop of World War II.\u00a0 If you think you’ve read enough about World War II, I admonish you to take the time to meet Marie-Laure and Werner.\u00a0 And to revel in the beauty of Anthony Doerr’s prose.<\/p>\n

I was thrilled that my short review was chosen for the Indie Next newsletter for May<\/a>.\u00a0 There was competition for that, you see, because the hype and praise is pretty solid for this book.\u00a0 The professional reviews are rolling<\/a>, cresting<\/a>, and breaking<\/a> now, and they are glowing.\u00a0 Watch this book.\u00a0 Here’s my winning blurb:<\/p>\n

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The French girl cannot see, but she can hear, feel, and explore the world around her like a budding naturalist. The German boy has no parents, but he teaches himself how coils of copper can receive lessons of love and learning. It\u2019s World War II, however, and the potential of thousands of children will be unrealized or thwarted. Will a mythical gemstone save them or unite them? Gorgeously written, Doerr\u2019s epic tale brings alive the beauty of two souls, their quest for learning, the turbulent times they cannot control, and the rock that mysteriously guides their fate. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tony<\/a>And here is Anthony Doerr at Winter Institute (a bookseller’s conference) in Seattle this January, signing my ARC (Advanced Reader’s Copy).\u00a0\u00a0 Now to admonish Tony to come home to Cleveland, you know, to visit his folks and all, and to celebrate with a book signing at Loganberry Books.\u00a0 We’ve got the red (purple) carpet ready, Tony!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s finally here!\u00a0 Anthony Doerr Day!\u00a0 Have you heard the news? Today is pub day for Doerr’s brilliant new novel, All the Light We Cannot See.\u00a0 It’s a magnificent novel, tightly constructed, nuanced, and featuring lovely, likeable young protagonists set … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}