The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I know that this book needs no help from me ... people are buying it and reading it -- and enjoying it. It's a good good book. I just finished it meself and loved it. It had everything I wanted at the time. I had been watching serious things on DVD and wanted to read something that lifted my spirits but wasn't fluffy. Plus, I wanted a story set in a place very different than my own. Boy, did I get that in spades! So the setting was wonderful for me -- lots of outdoors AND it's an island ... I love oceans, rivers, lakes, creeks ... even puddles. So there you go. Yes, and I loved the characters. The story is told in a series of letters. The main character is a writer. The story moves along quickly. There are no wasted words. And the characters made me laugh out loud. What more could you ask from a book? Well ... yes, substance. There's that too.
I highly recommend it.
Note: My list of books that I've read from January until end of June (with short reviews) will be posted here sometime in the first two weeks of July.
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Hey, man, you better give Cormier credit for that photo, or you're in for some heavy-duty ass-kicking You know how those photographers are.
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