G is for …. Guernsey 🇬🇬
“G” has some great books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl on the Train, The Gunslinger, and The Green Mile, but for me The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society holds my heart! ❤
Before 2016, I had never even heard of this book. It wasn’t exactly “my type” of book, as you can tell from my other books shown here. But the story of how this book came in to my possession proves it was meant to be.
It was August 2016, and I was browsing at my favorite used book store with a friend, just killing some time. We were just discussing some of the books we were finding and the type of books we like to read when this woman, a stranger I have never seen before, comes up to me and hands me a book. She says to me “You have to buy this book” and then she just turns and walks away. I was speechless, thinking that was the weirest encounter I have ever had. I look at this book that was just handed to me and think what a strange title. The whole thing was just so odd that I decided I had no choice, I had to follow the woman’s direction and I bought the book.
Now I didn’t read this book right away, no. It ended up taking me over a year before I finally got to it. Like I said, this book was not my style, not my normal interest, and it was just a bunch of letters put together to make story, ugh no thank you. Finally, in 2017, the reading challenge that I was completing had the perfect prompt, I could no longer ignore this book, A Book Someone Else Has Recommended to You.
I devoured this book in 1 day. I just could not stop reading it. I laughed, I cried, I loved it!
Since then I have forced this book on everyone I know and make them read it. They all look at me the same way I did, “really, you want me to read this?” They have never been disappointed.
So.. this is me, a stranger to you, coming up and handing you this book, telling you, you must buy it.
