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 A Delight November 27, 2009
Helen T (Bristol, UK)
This book was an unexpected delight. It was warm and life-affirming and wonderfully old-fashioned. It was a structural feat to make the story hang so well together considering the book consists ENTIRELY of letters - yet it didn't feel forced. The letters and story had added power given the speed and volume of so many of our empty, superficial communications today. Interesting too to have such a central character never appear or write a letter (since she was dead when the story began) - even if she did seem a bit too good to be true.
 Loved it! November 24, 2009
Jill L. Caldwell
This book made me laugh and cry, and I was so sorry when I had finished it -- I wanted it to go on forever! I'm recommending it to all my friends.
Mmmm. Mango Curry.. November 23, 2009
Andrew iyer (CA USA)
This book goes well with hot chocolate and some cookies. It's a playful, fun, lighthearted read that on occaision injects (lightly) the horrors of Nazi occupation. It is very well written, and the characters are lively and entertaining.
I enjoy the british-style of humour, and the british (well, back in the day, anyway) style of the "stiff upper lip", that seems to have gone missing from the UK recently. It's on full display in this book. This is, at its heart, a sweet love story, and it is done very well. Some critics here have called it fluff - I suppose if you're a Hemingway man, who needs RED MEAT in their books, and lots of MAN-STUFF - then yes, it is fluff.
But it isn't sugary-sweet fluff, like fairy floss. It's more, well, a delicious mango chicken curry. And now i'm hungry. I liked this book - it's more for people in an emotive, happy love story type mood, although admittedly the change in author towards the very end does affect the flow a teeny bit. But it's minor, and at the *very* end of the book.
Someone else mentioned the Book Thief - it's a good book too, you should also read it. Both books are very different though - this is a love story, the Book Thief is more focussed on the horrors of Nazi Germany, with the associated emotions (spoiler alert! Not Happy Ones). But don't skip this book for that one. Unless you're in a Hemingway or a Conrad mood (and there seem to be a few people here who need to feel "raw emotions") - then read
anything by Elie Wiesel. I'd start with Night (Oprah's Book Club).
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There, now you're all depressed - oh, you need cheering up? - i'd recommendThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) to cheer you up. And some hot chocolate.
A Tiny Corner of English History Just After WWII ! November 23, 2009
Newly Retired Reader (Maryland, MD USA)
Written in an interesting, captivating Letter Writing format!
Character development works well in this format.
It teaches in an informal way, as well as entertains the reader.
I liked it so much, I have given copies as gifts to friends and family.
Even the title, unusual as it is, draws you in and keeps you focused!
So, if you enjoy the lost art of letter writing, and have even a passing interest in history, you too will enjoy this book!
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society November 20, 2009
Amy Musher
Very interesting and well written. It is written as letters back and forth wherein the story evolves about how one tiny town experienced the German invasion and the Holocaust. If you like that subject, you will like this book. I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
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