While doing my requisite 45 minutes of cardio activity on the elliptical at the gym tonight, I brought a book to distract me from the repetitive motion and fluorescent lighting.
In front of the digital timer and calorie-counter I placed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel which popped onto my radar when MG said she read it in two days, she found it so enjoyable.
Short story tiny, the fictional book is comprised entirely of correspondence written between a writer, Juliet, to friends in British territories after World War II, and to a group of people she does not know personally on the island of Guernsey. Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France, and the historical context of the book includes the fact that the people there were essentially cut off from outside communication and news for five years during the war.
Five whole years.
No internet.
No newspapers.
No tweets or texts.
All they had were books and each other.
Maybe I should cut myself off from communication and focus on writing with this much cleverness; anyone who can make me smile or laugh with their written words is a winner in my book. I can only hope to do the same for others one day...
From Juliet to Sophie
A tuba among the flutes. I love it.
2 comments:
I totally LOVE that book. I read it this summer and it has become my new recommend-it-to-everyone-book. I've even lent my copy to someone and have no idea who...I really hope they bring it back soon, but I totally can't blame them if they keep quiet. :)
Per your recommendation I am going to check this out--I can't wait for a good book. I have been in a reading rut lately and need to get out of it. I am hoping this is the one!
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