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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer

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Dec 29, 2009 Stephanie Barko added it

This title was the July selection of
South Austin Spiritual Book Group.

Shaffer creates a sensitive, detailed and wondrous sense of place in this story. I found myself wanting to go to Guernsey as I closed the book and fell asleep at night. Not physically go there, but go there through the book, through the writing.

The characterization is imaginative and real at the same time--island characters are more likely to be eccentric b/c they don't have to answer to anyone and these fit the bill. I was o ...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Pam rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, guernsey

AUTHOR: Shaffer, Mary Ann & Barrows, Annie
TITLE: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society
DATE READ: 01/07/13
RATING: 5/A
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: Fiction/2008/Random House/274 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: Stand-Alone
TIME/PLACE: 1946 Post WW II, Guernsey & London
CHARACTERS: Juliet Ashton writer; Members of the Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society
FIRST LINES: Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder. We sold over 40 copies of the book, which was very pleasant, but much more thrilling from my ...more

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Apr 20, 2011 Oana rated it liked it

A cute book I listened as an audiobook during my commutes, I found this epistolary novel sweet and easy to digest. The five actors playing about ten roles gave the audiobook an old-time radio show feel.

As far as the story went, it was chick lit, though it spared us the descriptions of shoes. I was surprised to hear a coworker say that the subject matter was shocking: the story does concern itself with the WWII invasion of Guernsey and has minor tangents about Ravensbruck, but the concentration ...more

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Feb 10, 2011 Ra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I have done this book great injustice by reading it over a very long period. In fact, I was halfway through it when I left it for over three months. In the interim I left Cape Town and moved to New York, started a new job and was trying to come to terms with homesickness and living in the big city. If it wasn't for these circumstances it could easily be one of those treats to be gobbled up in one sitting.

The story about books, friends and triumph of the human soul against adversity. It is at tim ...more

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