I am in a book club and we met on Tuesday to choose the books that we will read for the next year! Yes... the next year. We chose quite the ecclectic selection of fiction and nonfiction. Since I have the tendency to proacrastinate and then not even finish the book... I decided to get a jump start and came home and requested the first three books from our local library.
The book for September is The Guenery Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. A bizarre title for a book, I agree...
I started the book last night and am loving it! It is the story of a journalist who is in need of inspiration for her next writing piece. She learns, through a letter, of a group of individuals who live on the island of Guernery (which is between England and France) who have a literary society.
What she learns is that they started the society as an excuse to get together, share food and talk without being harassed by the Nazis. As you see... the story takes place at the end of World War II. I never thought about the German occupation of the small islands between England and France...actually... until I started reading this book, I didn't even know there were islands there. (Guess I better study a little more geography :).
