June Book Club

We are sad to see some of the second years head off to their rotation sites, they will all be missed dearly. We had a great May meeting at Megan Sumrell's and we are planning to do a book for June. The June book is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. We will be having book club at Amanda Toti's new house in Harrogate on June 9 at 7:00. Directions will be e-mailed out at a later date. The book can be found on Amazon and someone had said they have it at Walmart and the book store in the Middlesboro mall. We hope to see you there for a nice summer read.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

From Publishers Weekly The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used book and invites articulate—and not-so-articulate—neighbors to write Juliet with their stories, the book's epistolary circle widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories. The occasionally contrived letters jump from incident to incident—including the formation of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society while Guernsey was under German occupation—and person to person in a manner that feels disjointed. But Juliet's quips are so clever, the Guernsey inhabitants so enchanting and the small acts of heroism so vivid and moving that one forgives the authors for not being able to settle on a single person or plot. Juliet finds in the letters not just inspiration for her next work, but also for her life—as will readers.

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