Ally’s Reviews > Cloud Cuckoo Land > Status Update

"I know why those librarians read the old stories to you," Rex says. "Because if it's told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap."

For many of the things you love, it’s too late. But not for all.

That we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem. And that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

You said write something "fun" we did over summer to get our "grammar muscles flexing again" so OK Mrs Tweedy this summer scientists announced that in the last 40 years humans have killed 60% of the wild mammals and fishes and birds on earth. Is that fun? Also in the past 30 years we melted 95% of the oldest thickest ice in the Arctic. When we have melted all the ice in Greenland, JUST THE ICE IN GREENLAND

"That's what the gods do," he says. "They spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come."

On the fourth night, hands shaking, Zeno carries _The Mermen of Atlantis_ down the creaking stairs, past the mulberry curtains and lace runners and the kettle of potpourri pumping out its nauseating perfume, slides open the fireplace screen, and shoves the book in.

[jeez, this is like the third time I've cried so far this book?]