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definitely spoilers


I keep thinking about the book and trying to decide if it was a
really good book or not. I just LIKED it so much. I liked the
style, with the letters back and forth and the way the story built
from people remembering.

I too found the letters/epistolary style very accessible and fast to
read.... and they wrote with such frequency!

And I immediately wrote my two cousins in the
MidWest and promised myself to write more people more often. I used
to write lots of letters, sigh.

I loved the old bitch lady and the way her snarky tatteling added to
the story.

Reading about the horrors of WWII was both enhanced and (what's the
opposite of enhanced?) by the fact that people who lived them were
telling about them. As awful as they were, these people just kept on
plodding along.

I had a kind of 'oh no' feeling as I saw the romance
blooming. Kind of like when you know there's going to be a sex scene
in an otherwise fast action movie. And in a way the ending did sink
into a romance. But I didn't think it was too smaltzy. (Is that a
word?)

I thought it was kind of weird that Juliet took the little girl. I
thought she was doing alright with the community there and I wondered
that they would have let her go to London.

But I enjoyed every minute of reading it and want to share it with
everyone I know.
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