~The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society~

For this day in the Write About Your Writing-Week, I am going to write about a favorite book of me.

                                 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I am in half of the first part with all the letters, and I love it already. Name one person who cannot love this book and I will be so surprised I will fall of my chair. I believe my older sister bought it...yes, I think so, and I thought I'd read it. And how glad I am that I did! It is an English version, and as you know I'm Dutch, so I first thought it'd be hard to read because I have never read a book in English. But it was surprisingly easy to read. I read it like I would read any Dutch book, which is a bit weird, you know? That you just read the English and understand everything(isn't your mind an extraordinary thing?). Well, anyway, I strongly suggest you read it if you haven't yet.

Some things I love:

First of all: the book cover. The book cover of our version is the picture above, and isn't it a beautiful cover? I really love the book cover, and by the way: the book is easy to read. Not the heavy thick books like Gone with the Wind, and not those new ones whose pages are completely white and clean and you have to push hard to make the pages straight. I like somewhat older books more. They always have this smell(that's weird, but true. I think).

Second: The title. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Say it out loud or whisper it to yourself. It has this swing about it(that also sounds weird, maybe I'm in a weird mood) that makes it, despite the length of it, easy to say. I don't know...it's just a really good title.

Third: The writing. The writing is fabulous. If I read this book before The Cake Flavored Book Tag I would have put it in the ''carrot cake: a book with great writing''-question. The writing of this book is really good.

Fourth: The characters. The characters are all unique and special on their own way and I can imagine them all in my head writing those letters and with what they're writing and the scenarios they describe in the letters are so clear in my head. I love all of the characters.

Some things I do not like:

Well, I haven't read the book totally, but thusfar there is nothing that I do not like.

Characters:

Character I like most: Uhm...I'm doubting between Juliet, Dawsey, Elizabeth...but I really like Isola too, and Mrs Maugery and...just everyone! I do not have a favourite character yet. Maybe when I finished the book completely. (Doubt it, but well...)

Character I dislike most: This is somewhat easier than the first one. Mark Reynolds, I think. I don't know, but there's something about him...I like him less of all the characters, I think. Oh wait, what am I saying? Miss Adelaide of course! How can she dislike all those Guernsey people? And the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, how can you disapprove of something like that? I just don't get Miss Adelaide. So, she is the character I like least, yes.


So far my review of the book I barely started(half of the letters, how slow am I? Usually very quick, but I have just begun reading this book last night and then we were already going to watch a movie, so I layed it down again, regretfully), but I recommend to anyone and everyone. Oh, maybe I would have included this book to that question if I read it earlier. Ah, well, I couldn't have known, right? And then one thing I am so excited for...

They are going to make a movie of this book!!(imagine thousands of exclamation marks behind those two) How great is that! I hope it will be out soon, so I don't have to wait too long for it.