What Fiction are you reading this week, May 26, 2024?

[NanaCat]

19. A return to report in on CCL

Loved it. I do think you make a point about the audiobook format being too confusing. CCL needs to be a print read because the multiple POVs and even time periods are constantly weaving into and out of each other.

In the print version, though, the chapter titles use the names of the characters, and that allows the reader to 'orient' to the associated viewpoint without much fuss.

Despite the book's span of multiple time periods, it has a linear time structure...for each character,'s POV. Doerr also employs a thematic time structure as well, with the chronological sections of the ancient book acting as a sort of foreshadowing of the theme of that particular time section for all of the characters.

So it has complicated time and POV layers that take a bit of adjusting to, and I have a feeling that makes far more sense in print than audio. I can't imagine trying to keep all of that straight without 'seeing' it.