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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Read With Me Wednesday: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Was yesterday Wednesday?  Really?  I totally spaced it!  Partly because of this wonderful book I’m reading.  Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, my wonderfully amazing cousin recommended it to me.  I am loving it, so far so good.  It is a breath of fresh air witty and charming. 

 

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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
288 pages

I can’t remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren’t my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

 

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

Random House Publishing

3 comments:

  1. I keep seeing this and for some reason haven't bought it...perhaps I will tomorrow.

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  2. I love that book and may have to read it again. Enjoy!

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  3. I'm so glad you liked this book. What did you think of Forge? Any other requests that you'd like to read that I might have? We can exchange at the family Christmas party...which I think we are still having??

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