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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.
Caramellunacy: Both stories are bittersweet - tales of hardship, prejudice and hope although they are set in very different places and very different times. Fried Green Tomatoes jumps around but describes life, race relations and murder in a small Southern town during the Great Depression. Shaffer's novel deals with the occupation (and its aftermath) of the small Channel Island of Guernsey during WWII.… (altro)
Utente anonimo: Both novels reflect on World War II from small, seaside towns, one an island in Europe, the other a small town in Cape Cod. The female leads are unique and interesting and are surrounded by great small town people.
jill123: Though they are different in style and tone, both books are set in the Channel Islands during the Nazi Occupation. I enjoyed the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but I found Ebenezer Le Page to be an absolutely wonderful book. More complex and interesting than the Potato Peel Society.… (altro)
BasilBlue: Although written in a more elegantly sparse style, this book covers much the same territory, geographically and emotionally.
nillacat: A deeper, darker portrait of Guernsey through the fictional autobiography of a unique, difficult, yet attractive character from the end of the 19th century through the two world wars and into the 1960s.
Voracious_Reader: The writing styles and the authors' love for the written word connect both period pieces in my mind even though their plots are extremely different.
vulgarboatman: Similar themes of a journalist discovering the layers of secrets around a mystery from WWII, along with an exploration of the effect of these events on the survivors, their families, and ultimately on the journalist herself.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Going in to the bookmobile to apologize for the disturbance created by one of her corgis, Queen Elizabeth II feels it would only be polite to check out a book. When she returns it, she checks out another . . . and then another. One of her pages becomes her abettor in the matter of securing books and reading them. Thus begins an amusing but also thought-provoking saga of how reading can change a person's habits and even outlook.… (altro)
bell7: Though one is set in contemporary times on a fictional island of the coast of Massachusetts and the other in post World War II England, both books show the importance of story and have an optimistic tone while dealing with some of life's challenges.
BookshelfMonstrosity: A love of literature helps protagonists form unlikely but rewarding new relationships in these tender stories of personal redemption. The vibrant characterization, gently humorous tone, and whimsical, heartwarming narratives shine in compelling novels that illustrate the power of reading.… (altro)
betsytacy: This YA novel, set in 1936, features 16-year-old Sophie, a royal orphan growing up with her siblings and cousin in a shabby castle on island kingdom of Montmaray, somewhere off the coast of England. The island's strategic location draws the interest of the Nazis.… (altro)
Capisco il successo del libro: è un romanzo semplice, da lettura in poltrona con tazza di the a fianco, non troppo impegnativo, ma nemmeno completamente insulso. Lo stile è a tratti frizzante, in altri molto dolce senza scadere nello smielato, scorrevolissimo.
Purtroppo per me i personaggi sono un po' troppo di qua dello stereotipo: c'è una lei (scrittrice che scopre la bellezza della vita nella natura rispetto alla città e si innamora di bambine orfane), un lui (dolce, amante di libri profondi, ma impacciato), un l'altro (ricco, ma che non la capisce e la vorrebbe cambiare).
Qualche sforzo in più è stato fatto sulla storia di contorno, che mi ha interessata molto di più dei protagonisti, ma purtroppo lo sviluppo è troppo lineare e prevedibile per me.
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," written by the late Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece, children's author Annie Barrows, stays within modest bounds, but is successful in ways many novels are not. This book won't change your life, but it will probably enchant you. And sometimes that's precisely what makes fiction worthwhile.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society commemorates beautiful spirits who pass through our midst and hunker undercover through brutal times. Shaffer's Guernsey characters step from the past radiant with eccentricity and kindly humour, a comic version of the state of grace. They are innocents who have seen and suffered, without allowing evil to penetrate the rind of decency that guards their humanity.
You could be skeptical about the novel's improbabilities and its sanitized portrait of book clubs (doesn't anyone read trashy thrillers?), but you'd be missing the point. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a sweet, sentimental paean to books and those who love them.
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Lovingly dedicated to my mother, Edna Fiery Morgan, and to my dear friend Julia Poppy —M. A. S. And to my mother, Cynthia Fiery Barrows —A. B.
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8th January, 1946
Mr. Sidney Stark, Publisher Stephens & Stark Ltd. 21 St. James's Place London S.W.1 England
Dear Sidney,
Susan Scott is a wonder. We sold over forty copies of the book, which was very pleasant, but much more thrilling from my standpoint was the food. Susan managed to procure ration coupons for icing sugar and real eggs for the meringue. If all her literary luncheons are going to achieve these heights, I won't mind touring about the country. Do you suppose that a lavish bonus could spur her on to butter? Let's try it—you may deduct the money from my royalties.
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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 ...
Dr. Stubbins pronounced that you alone had transformed "distraction" into an honorable word - instead of a character flaw.
Sidney is having a grand time as Isola's houseguest. They apparently sat up late talking last night. Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stamping on it.
Will said ... Miss Beddoes wasn't a good kisser and he for one was tired of kissing her, even for Sweet Charity's sake.
Dawsey's barn is exceedingly clean. He also stacks his hay beautifully.
Isola is better than a stalking horse.
Ultime parole
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P.S. I ran into Adelaide Addison in St Peter Port today. By way of congratulation, she said, "I hear you and that pig-farmer are about to regularize your connection. Thank the Lord!"
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.
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Purtroppo per me i personaggi sono un po' troppo di qua dello stereotipo: c'è una lei
Qualche sforzo in più è stato fatto sulla storia di contorno, che mi ha interessata molto di più dei protagonisti, ma purtroppo lo sviluppo è troppo lineare e prevedibile per me.
Consigliato agli amanti del genere però. (