The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

#176 ~ 84, Charing Cross Road

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 84, Charing Cross Road has to be one of the most charming books I’ve read in a long time. It also showed me how I assume almost everything I read is fiction. It took me about a quarter of the book to think: “The American has the same [...]

The Sunday Salon ~ 02.15.09

Good afternoon, Sunday Saloners! I hope that everyone had the Valentine’s Day they were hoping for this weekend. I had fun planning Emma’s Valentine’s Day party on Friday. I’m her room mother and I’m really enjoying that. I used to love those parties the best when I was in grade school – even better than [...]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows In this novel, Shaffer and Barrows tell a story of chance encounters and destiny through letters mailed mainly between Juliet Ashton, a British author, and several citizens of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Relationships that begin as a fluke when [...]