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sambam_42's Reviews (309)
So far this is my favorite one out of her series. I empathized with her more even if I did find her lack of spine annoying but sometimes warranted. Either way, great book, cant wait for Anne of Cleves.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer, Mary Ann Shaffer
Great escapist read
This book does a great job with creating a narrative using a very piecemeal style of letters between characters. The plot is predictable, but in a nice way, and the author did a fantastic job of building a visual of the island during and after the German Occupation. Great for a quick, easy and mostly light read.
This book does a great job with creating a narrative using a very piecemeal style of letters between characters. The plot is predictable, but in a nice way, and the author did a fantastic job of building a visual of the island during and after the German Occupation. Great for a quick, easy and mostly light read.
Great book! I was unaware of the struggles L.M. Montgomery faced; it's great that the author highlighted her struggle with mental health and the effect it had on her public and personal life. Very well done.
This was a fantastic book! I was instantly engrossed in the story and became invested in all the characters and how they progressed. Towards the end I really appreciated how the author chose to portray the feelings of the parents of the Star Children and gave them hope and joy at knowing their children were loved and happy. While not an overt nod to adoption, being an adoptive parent myself, I really appreciated the sentiment.
This book was lyrically beautiful. As always, Ondaatje creates stunning visuals with his words. The characters in Warlight, however, seemed to fall a bit flat for me. The only exception was Rose; I feel like I would have loved more of her journey but what we got was enough that I didnt have lingering questions.
This book was inventive, captivating, and fun to read. However, I had a hard time with the fact that Artemis is only 12. For me personally, I think it would have taken me out of the story less if he were a teenager but the fact that he's 12 made stop and think, "Really?". Nothing that ruined the story, or the experience, but just a personal hang up of mine.
Like most of Willig's books, she shifts back and forth between 2 points in time. You can kind of figure out what's going on if you're an astute reader and enjoy a good whodunit. I've always enjoyed Willig's work and this was no exception.
This was a wonderfully rich story about a woman who put duty and her son's career above her own personal happiness. This story, at times, weaves back and forth between post-war America and Victorian England before the big Buccaneer boom. It does somewhat shape how we view Jennie Churchill and her later relationship with her husband and Count Kinsky, but there was almost no feel to the story. To me, her relationship with Kinsky lacked some kind of urgency and deep emotion; I didn't feel the pull between the two as clearly as in some other literary relationships. That being said, this was a delightful novel told about a person most of us don't see since she chose to reside in the shadow of her famous son.
Once I got more than a third through this book I couldn't put it down. Kearsley masterfully weaves between the three vantage points of Charley, Lydia, and Jean-Phillipe and as you finish one you feel like you need to move to the next. I felt that this book gave voice to a period that was far more than just a precursor to the Revolutionary war. It sets up big divides between the French and English that will later be tested when America comes to rely on the French for Freedom. Really well done; I thoroughly enjoyed it.