#mary ann shaffer

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“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.”

― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

[tomesofthetrade]

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[les-portes-du-sud]

Est-ce une chose si infime que d'avoir vécu la lumière du printemps, d'avoir aimé, d'avoir pensé, d'avoir agi, d'avoir servi de véritables amis? Non, ça ne l'est pas.

Mary Ann Shaffer

[bshocommons]

My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper.

Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || August 9 || Favorite Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

[auntieblues]

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

original auntieblues

[thisbibliophiile]

DNF

One of the few examples where the movie is better than the book

[whattraintracks]

Okay, okay, okay. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The movie: stunning. The book: unbelievably better. So I watched the movie first—I know, cardinal sin—but I honestly enjoyed the book more because I had already seen the film. Sort of like reading a detailed plot summary before you watch a play or musical. I knew what was going on already, so I could focus more on the details than the plot. My read felt like a reread in terms of what I picked up, but had all the excitement of a first read-through! I also grew to appreciate the discrepancies between the book and the movie. Maybe I need to rethink this 'book before movie' policy... Also, also, also. It’s an epistolary novel! One of the coolest literary formats of all time. And the soundtrack is gorgeous.

TL;DR One experience enhances the other, so watch the movie and read the book in whatever order you want and rewatch and reread liberally.

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[litandlifequotes]

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

[dontdenymeshakespeare]

The Amazing Readathon Week Four

The Amazing Readathon is a readathon created by Brianna from Four Paws and a Book and co-hosted by many others in the BookTube and Bookstagram community. This one is based on the reality TV series The Amazing Race and it’s about spending the month of August travelling the world. There are prompts and ways you can get bonus points (team colour, BIPOC author, etc.). It turns out we’re not supposed…

[tomesofthetrade]

“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”

- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[symphonyoflovenet]

I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.

Mary Ann Shaffer

[bshocommons]

I figure hunger makes you desperate when you wake to it every morning.

Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Title: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Score: 4.2/5.0 (Goodreads.com)

Price: RM5

Postage: +RM6 (Peninsular Malaysia) or RM15 (Sabah&Sarawak)

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Summary/Introduction:

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1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...

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Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.

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