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Lovingly dedicated to my mother, Edna Fiery Morgan, and to my dear friend Julia Poppy Barrows, Fiery Cynthia mother  | |
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Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. -Isola Pribby
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. -Isola Pribby Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. -Juliet I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. -Juliet I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. -John Booker This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. -- Juliet That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive -- all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. None of us had any experience of literary societies, so we made our own rules: we took turns to speak about the books we'd read. ... the purpose of the speakers was to goad the listeners into wanting to read the book themselves. Once two members had read the same book, they could argue, which was our great delight. We read books, talked books argued over books ... | |
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Beginning at the end of WW2, this book is told through the form of letter between writer Juliet Ashton and her friends. Juliet initially receives a letter from a man on the island of Guernsey asking for more books. She becomes so in love with stories and descriptions of life in Guernsey that she decides to go herself. Through the letters she sends home and the letters from her new friends the stories of people's lives are revealed. This book points out that the lives of people were more important than the formality of the writing.
This book may not have the most literary value bu there were so many allusions to books that I couldn't keep track. It made me realize that I had really not read that many books. It also was a book that made me want to learn more about people and not just be content with what's on the surface. The people in Guernsey were just so interesting. | |
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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. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:12:58 -0500) (see all 6 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.… (more) » see all 7 descriptions |
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This is a nice little book - it has a lovely cast of characters that, for the most part, I would love to be friends with. It is charmingly written in a style that is a bit different - in the form of letters, most of which are to or from Juliet (the main character). It is informative regarding the effect of WWII on Guernsey - a British Isle - and a small community of the residents there. It is fiction but I'm certain much of it is based on fact of situations that occurred to many during the war.
But this book isn't about the war. It takes place a few short years after the war. The central character is a London writer who happens to become acquainted with a few residents of the isle of Guernsey. She travels to meet them and finds herself there. This book didn't arouse strong emotion in me, but I did enjoy it and would recommend it.
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