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March Book Club - CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr

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The Odyssey: A Story of Persistence

Ben Westward asked is the book saying the destruction of Constantinople was necessary for the story to survive because otherwise it would have rotted away in the old church. "I don't know if it's necessarily saying like it's good that this city was sacked and all these people died but just kind of showing the like unbeatable like life finds a way-ness of stories sometimes," he said."It didn't fill my stomach um it didn't solve any of my problems actually but it made me feel better for five minutes...that's how it kept making its way forward over the centuries."

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