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Some books can change your life. Thinking about how those life changing books come into our possession, is it fate or serendipity? The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society didn’t change my life, but is about books that do.
Juliet is a British author who shortly after World War II, finds herself without a new book subject. She receives a letter from a resident of Guernsey Island, who found her name and address in a book about Charles Lamb. Guernsey is isolated and after years of Nazi occu ...more
Juliet is a British author who shortly after World War II, finds herself without a new book subject. She receives a letter from a resident of Guernsey Island, who found her name and address in a book about Charles Lamb. Guernsey is isolated and after years of Nazi occu ...more
12/19/10
I picked this up at Atticus Books in New Haven (an independent bookstore that I do my best to patronize whenever possible :-), expecting it to be light reading. While it was interesting, lively, and well-written (and has the interesting structure of being a novel completely in the form of letters/correspondence), it was also moving and serious at times. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
1/20/15 I reread this for book group last month, and was again impressed by the substance and writing. I did a l ...more
I picked this up at Atticus Books in New Haven (an independent bookstore that I do my best to patronize whenever possible :-), expecting it to be light reading. While it was interesting, lively, and well-written (and has the interesting structure of being a novel completely in the form of letters/correspondence), it was also moving and serious at times. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
1/20/15 I reread this for book group last month, and was again impressed by the substance and writing. I did a l ...more
I had a bit of a hard time getting into this book in the beginning. It's written with an older language flair (post WWII) that took a little getting used to, and the entire book is written as correspondence (letters, telegrams, etc) so it's uniqueness took a little time to get comfortable with. Once the characters were all introduced the story took on such a lovely quality! I just loved each of the characters and I loved their interactions with one another. I really felt like I'd just been intro
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Found this to be a very quick read. It made me very curious to learn more about this period of time.
Jun 25, 2011
Haley
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Shelves:
historical-fiction,
holocaust-wwii
1st read 2009
2nd read (audio this time) February 2023
2nd read (audio this time) February 2023
I absolutely loved this book!
Jul 15, 2018
Kelly Gagne
marked it as to-read
