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

Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to  about this delightful book told me that initially they had difficulty getting into the story; there’s a lot of flipping pages and looking at names to get straight who’s sending letters to whom. But after you get the main characters down, the story flows easily and it becomes quite [...]

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The Year of Secret Assignments, by Jaclyn Moriarty

I have somehow developed an affinity for epistolary novels, or books written in the form of letters and other documents adding up to a whole story. Jaclyn Moriarty has created a set of young adult books in this format, with The Year of Secret Assignments being the second, and my favorite, of the three. Feeling [...]

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