Parker's blog response September 29, 2015 to Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See As I will not be there until 4 today, here are my observations on Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See. Despite the 500 plus pages, this was virtually a one-sitting read. Not often am I so completely absorbed in a novel and felt as if I had stepped into a different world and time. Doerr blends layered storytelling, a detailed geographic setting (check out St. Malo and the Paris streets around the Jardin des Plantes on Google maps) and the historical setting of the Nazi invasion of France in the Second World War with characters whose lives are thrown into disarray, but through their own curiosity and intelligence, seemingly disparate individuals manage to circumnavigate the carnage unfolding around them to create a deeply resonating arc that bridges the world that was imploding around them. The plot is simple: the curator at the Museum of Natural History in Paris must hide its treasures be