Book review

I've just completed the book, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It's a big name for a small book. But the book is worth picking up.

It tells the story of a writer in England shortly after WWII, who decides to write a book about the German Occupation of th English Channel Islands. The story is written, not in chapters, but in a series of letters between the characters. It made the book so much fun to read. I actually enjoy this style of writing. I remember the first one I read like that. It was "The Fan". Do you remember that book? I read that back in my late teens-early twenties. Then there was Bridget Jones' Diary. With that style of writing, it's always just one more letter....just one more short section...until you find that you are finished the book in less time than it took you to decide to read it in the first place.

But even despite the wonderful way it was written, the book had characters that were so believable...so likable...well, it just made me want to pack up and move to the Guernsey Islands and join the first literary society I come across! If you do pick this one up, be sure to read the Afterward at the end...the story of the two authors who wrote it. That in itself was a story worth telling.