The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Book Review
I am certain many of you accept already read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Pare Pie Society. I know information technology was written in 2008 then I am very late to this party. Yet what a party information technology turns out to exist.
Merely peradventure, like me, you didn't read it in 2008 (I suddenly remember why I didn't. I had two babies.)
Maybe you watched the movie? I recently did, and so decided to read the volume, which is, of course, far more glorious than the flick. And that'southward not an insult to the film, the flick is lovely. Specially the Michiel Huisman bits. (I took a fancy to him in The Historic period of Adeline. But maybe you fell for him in Game of Thrones?) Anyway, he plays Dawsey, who might, in fact, be the new Darcy.
I also signed upwardly for the Gauteng Provincial Government Library Service'southward ebook offering. One writes in for a library bill of fare number, downloads the Libby past Overdrive App and in that location you are, in the virtual library. I don't accept a reliable tablet, so I read on my phone, which I am sure increases my wrinkle count equally I squint at the small screen. But that is how I accessed the Guernsey Literary and Potato Pare Lodge book, and let me tell you, it is worth all the wrinkles.
It was shut. I almost didn't borrow the volume, because information technology is written by ii people. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. How tin can two people write a volume? I can't bear the thought of playing doubles lawn tennis, let alone co-authoring a book.
Then, earlier I borrowed the book, I googled the story behind the two-authored approach. Information technology is as enthralling and equally moving every bit the Guernsey Literary and Potato Skin Pie Lodge itself, a story of love, family and support. Read about it HERE
Okay, so back to the book. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pare Pie Society is prepare afterward World State of war Ii. It is an epistolary novel, i.e. it is told entirely through messages, betwixt an author, Juliet Ashton, her publisher, his sister (her best friend), the publisher's staff, her suitor, and a larger than life bandage of eccentric and lovable characters from Guernsey who survived the Nazi occupation during Earth War Ii. Including Dawsey. Lest I forget Dawsey.
The first thing I loved about this volume, (later Dawsey) is the language and vocalism. It is across charming.
The side by side thing I loved is the way it is in told in letters, so cleverly layered, without a hiccup or a lull or an info dump.
The setting on Guernsey is evocative and the characters are real and funny and heartbreaking all at once. And the literary society, born of an excuse to avoid arrest afterward curfew past a German language patrol, becomes a place of community, of back up, of courage and of promise.
The horrors of war are shared, and nosotros must bear them, so that we tin can pause, and reflect. Still, the fortitude of the characters buoys usa back up.
The book fabricated me laugh, as the characters forge through difficult times with courage and humor and remarkable insights into human being nature.
Juliet at one point says "Have y'all noticed there are some people…who seem untouched by the war or at to the lowest degree unmangled by information technology?"
She also refers to long term effects of war when she receives the news, in 1946, of someone's wartime death.
'The War goes on and on, doesn't it?'
What I loved the most near this book is that it reminded me of the incredible value of all books, especially in dark times. It reminded me how books can transport one from a real world that often falls brusk of our ideals, into another one, one that enchants united states and diverts u.s.a..
What amend time to immerse oneself in reading than now, like the people of Guernsey did in their darkest hour, when we are feeling down: in isolation, pandemic, economic fall out and social upheaval.
As the author, Mary Ann Shaffer says in the acknowledgements,
"I hope too, that my book will illuminate my conventionalities that beloved of fine art – be it poesy, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music – enables people to transcend whatever barrier man has notwithstanding devised."
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