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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
It's 1946 and Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other members. As letters fly back and forth with stories of life in Guernsey under German Occupation, Juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name.
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Maggie_Reads
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Finally getting around to reading this book. My usual genre is historical fiction regarding WWII in Europe, but I‘ve been trying to revive letter writing in my personal life, so this is a fabulous book to marry both subjects. Bonus, its been very interesting so far.

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Gissy
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The story is narrated in a epistolary form. It has two time lines, the present which is 1946 and during the German occupation in the Island of Guernsey. Through these letters we will see how Juliet met the members of this club, why it has that name. Through their stories we will go to the past. It is funny, sad, intense. Please, read the book, there are many changes in the movie adaptation. They changed characters‘ personalities⬇️

Gissy Juliet is so different in that movie. It is so good. 4⭐️

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#GoodRead52BooksAroundTheYear prompt #1 Title ends with letter y

I received the book in summer 2019 from @Sammisho during #ColorMeRead swap
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Gissy Juliet is so different in that movie. It is so good. 4⭐️

January 2024 #BookSpinBingo (#4 book received from swap) @TheAromaOfBooks
#JumpStart2024 @Lizpixie
#ReadAway2024 @Ghabi4Roses @DieAReader @Andrew65
#52BookClub2024 chapters begins with dates)
#GoodRead52BooksAroundTheYear prompt #1 Title ends with letter y

I received the book in summer 2019 from @Sammisho during #ColorMeRead swap
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DieAReader 🥳Great 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2mo
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The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society is a highly readable book, and surprisingly moving. The wide cast of characters is charming and entertaining, and the letter format is used to great effect. Most importantly to me, the war is more than a convenient backdrop – it‘s integral to the plot and the characters. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-s...

Gissy I read it this month...beautiful ❤️ 2mo
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Good little heart warmer, all written in letters! #WWII #bookclub

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Bluebird
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It was a tough decision between this one and Tom Lake. Both excellent reads
#12booksof2023
@Andrew65

Andrew65 A wonderful book. 3mo
AvidReader25 Both books are wonderful! 3mo
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Kaila-ann
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Really enjoyed this one. It was a light and easy read in the form of letters. Juliet Ashton is an author who ends up writing a book about Guernsey during its German occupation. In the mean time, she falls in love with the island and it's inhabitants.

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Bluebird
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Loved this book! Took me ages to finally read it!
It‘s so true that your mood & the medium used effect your reading.
I tried this e-book about >5 years ago, thought it was meh and set it aside pretty quickly.
I like epistolary style (84 Charing Cross road is still in my top 10 books of all time) and all my reading buddies loved it, so I was shocked!
Tried it again via audio and absolutely loved it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ thanks to #bookedintime for the 🥾

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JenDR
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I first heard of this book a few years ago when it was mentioned in a book I read about a book club in a prison. I thought it sounded interesting but kept putting off reading it because there is a limit to how many WWII novels I can read. Decided to try this one as my lunch break book because the letters are short. Well, within one lunch break it has been upgraded to binge reading today.

rwmg Heh. That's how I first came across this one as well, when my book club read 7mo
JenDR @rwmg I am curious what was your book club‘s thoughts on The Prison Book Club? 7mo
rwmg It was well over 3 years ago that we read it. A lot of the discussion revolved round those of the books we'd read with a bit about what we knew of prison conditions in our respective countries (we're an international group with members from the UK, the US, Canada, and Australia). 7mo
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RenePenn
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This one has been on my TBR for a while and finally got to it. It‘s an easy to read historical romance with interesting characters.

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KPS-BOOKS-45
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Set in 1946 around post war friendships through letters and transmissions in which Juliet learns about the people that form the society, what and who does she find when she visits the island of Guernsey?
Enjoyed this one and getting to know the society through their witty and honest letters.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Loved this one 📝✏️📮 10mo
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Cathyloves2read
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I found this book interesting in many ways. The writing style was unique. It was composed entirely of letters or telegrams written between the characters. The story was based on a subject I hadn‘t read about or even heard of before,- the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WW2. This book was many stories within a story. I enjoyed reading it.

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rachelk
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This charming historical fiction novel is told in the form of letters, set in London and Guernsey (a quaint island in the English Channel near the French coast) just after WW II. Following our MC, writer Juliet, in search of material for her next book we embark on a story full of interesting characters, books, history, friendships and love.

I highly recommend.

Quirkybookworm I love love love this! I‘ve had 6 generations of ancestors who lived there! 11mo
rachelk @Quirkybookworm Wow!! It sounds like a wonderful place. I would love to visit it someday! 11mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”

#Marriage
#InQuotes

IndoorDame I picked the same quote! Great minds 😁 14mo
Cuilin I like that one. 14mo
BookNotes Great book. Good quote! 14mo
Eggs Lovely quote and image 💞💞 14mo
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IndoorDame I picked the same quote! Great minds 😁 14mo
Eggs 💜💗💜 14mo
Escapinwithbooks This hit me hard, nothing is harder than being in a marriage like that 14mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks We chose the same 💗 14mo
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IndoorDame
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Eggs Beautiful 💘 14mo
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Elizabeth2
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If you liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, then this article is for you! I‘ve read three of the books on the list and can recommend them, too - Dear Mrs Bird, The Storied Life of AJ Fickry, and Major Pettigrew‘s Last Stand.

Happy Reading!

https://bookriot.com/books-like-the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-societ...

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Andrew65
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Loved this book and the group that was set up, to think what could be hidden by pies! #NationalPieDay

#JanuaryJazz @Eggs @AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

Eggs A classic!!👏🏻👏🏻 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice!! 1y
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#12booksof2022

Last, but not least, my December favorite: the Guernsey audiobook was the warm hug I needed as I adjusted to my new home. I couldn‘t help but be charmed by the cast of characters. I‘m also a sucker for an epistolary tale.
Middlemarch was a close runner up: Eliot‘s style could certainly get bogged down in minutia and obscure references, but damn, when she was on, she was ON and pulled no punches describing human nature.

Andrew65 Love this book. Thanks for playing along, it has been a good way to review the year‘s reading. 1y
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This was a reread,but it has been over 6 years since I first read it, so a lot of it felt new. I really like this one - I think this time more of the horrors of what they faced in the Channel Islands under German WWII occupation settled in,and that made it a more difficult read. It is fascinating history I‘ve never heard anywhere else, so that alone makes it an important work - and visiting Guernsey is on my bucket list because of it :)

sarahbellum I listened to this one recently too and found it both charming and insightful. I had no idea about the German occupation of the Channel Islands prior to this 1y
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I read this book when it was first published, and loved it; now it‘s gained popularity again because of the the film, which I haven‘t seen, because film adaptions so often disappoint!

#Pie
#NovemberNarrative
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent choice!! 1y
Eggs Absolutely 🥔🥧 1y
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Booknerd222
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I‘ve had this on my bookshelf for years. Time to read it!

DivineDiana It‘s a good one! 🙂 2y
emmaturi Love this story 2y
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SayersLover
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Ok, wow! This has been on my TBR list for 2 yrs. I came across a free copy earlier this week and am taking that as a sign. “It‘s about time,”I hear the book saying. I‘m loving it so far 🥰

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AmyK1
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I was going to pick A Gentleman in Moscow but quite a few have already so I went with this one, which I also love.

#letterG #alphabetgame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Tagging @wideeyedreader and @Clwojick

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing! 2y
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Bookworm54
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I want to be friends with everyone in this book!
The letters were a good way of moving the story forward while getting to know each of them a little better.

After receiving a letter from a man in Guernsey, Juliet begins correspondence with several members of the literary and potato peel pie society, learning about their lives during the occupation, and eventually visiting in person.

This book was so good! I‘m glad it is off the tbr ☺️

#Roll100

Liatrek Loved this book and the Netflix movie is really good too🙂 2y
PuddleJumper That's great! 2y
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Bookworm54
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#Roll100 for July tells me it is time to finally read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!

This has been on my tbr for AGES!
I caught a bit of the film recently but not all of it. Just enough to bring it back to the forefront 🤣
So I am looking forward to this one!

Foragingfantasy Enjoy!! It‘s one of my favorites! 2y
PuddleJumper Hope you enjoy it! 2y
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Eggs
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One of my favorite #Epistolary novels📬 with its share of #Life/Death and grief #BookMoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BigJuneReadathon @Clwojick

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Loved this one! 💗 2y
Clwojick Agreed! I adored this one! 2y
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shanaqui

I've been promising to read and review this for Postcrossing's blog, and somehow it ended up in my hand today, so why not. It's certainly a fast read so far -- something about the letter format makes it fly by.

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thecaffinatedreader
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Local “Free Little Library” drop off! I hope someone enjoys this book as much as I did!

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intothehallofbooks
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Is this the most charming book I‘ve ever read? Yes, without a doubt, I think it is.

Dragon It‘s so good. The movie is good but not as good as the book 💚🐉 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I agree ❤️ 2y
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thecaffinatedreader
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I like to play a little game called “purchase something from Anthropologie on back order, forget you ordered it and then surprise yourself three months later when it arrives” 🤣

Zuhkeeyah This sounds like a really fun game! The mug is adorable. 2y
RaeLovesToRead Cute mug! 2y
thecaffinatedreader @Zuhkeeyah I enjoy it 🤣 2y
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thecaffinatedreader @RaeLovesToRead thank you! Keeps my coffee hot! 2y
Sparklemn I do that all the time with bookshop.org. I don't even mind when my books are on backorder! 2y
thecaffinatedreader @Sparklemn now I need to check out this website! 2y
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thecaffinatedreader
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It‘s been a minute since I shared a #thriftstack of books I found at local thrift stores. We have several different thrift chains here in Huntsville that carry a large assortment of really good books, for dirt cheap! Those Francine Rivers books I purchased for 75 cents each!

I told myself no more books until I read the others, but it would have been wrong of me to just leave them there 😉

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thecaffinatedreader
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“I think you learn more if you‘re laughing at the same time”

So many good quotes coming out of #theguernseyliteraryandpotatopeelpiesociety

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thecaffinatedreader
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I‘m in love with this quote! #theguernseyliteraryandpotatopeelpiesociety

KristiAhlers I love that idea. 2y
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thecaffinatedreader
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Started #theguernseyliteraryandpotatopeelsociety last night and I‘m already struggling to put it down. Loving this one!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It so good! Pretty pic 💛 2y
thecaffinatedreader Thank you :) 2y
Aims42 It‘s such an awesome book!! 2y
BookDadGirlDad I devoured this book!!! I rarely laugh out loud or verbalize when reading, but I did with this one. 2y
emz711 It's wonderful 🥔🥔🍠 2y
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thestarlesscasea
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I absolutely will not read all of these, but I'll do what I can/whatever I want to do in the moment 🙃
Also I am probably forgetting some/will probably add more as I go...we shall see where the wind takes me 🌬📚
May the Fourth Be With You today and all month long, in your reading and elsewhere! ✨️

lirahlu I LOVED Guernsey 😍 2y
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actualdisneyprincess
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I started this at lunch, and I‘m already halfway through. 😍 I love these characters SO much. #theguernseyliteraryandpotatopeelpiesociety #maryannshaffer #annieburrows #letters #worldwarii

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Skeeterisme
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Wonderful story

Erinsuereads This was my favorite book of 2020 2y
marleed It really is good. The book better than the adaption as some characters were rolled into a single person. 2y
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Mehso-so

I wanted very much to absolutely love this book but I have to admit I felt disconnected to the minor characters through the letter format. It ended a bit suddenly and I felt there was still things that were left undone. With that being said I still did find it worth the read! A very charming read of post WWII in a little town called Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

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kissmehardy
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Okay, I get the hype about this book. Such a good use of the epistolary format, and wonderful characters! #historicalfiction #epistolarynovel

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FantasyChick
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Started making some stew for supper but I didn't have any pre-made mirepoix so #audioprepping ensues!! I'm not big on pre-chopping but this is one staple I much prefer already made 😊

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katy4peas
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Written in sets of letters back in forth, Juliet tells the stories of a group of people living on Guernsey and their experience during the War. She strikes up friendships with all of them and learns why their society has the name that it does. A throughly charming story as they learn to trust each other and share more of their stories. Likable characters and a quick read. Audio with multiple narrators.
#newyearwhodis @Librarybelle @monalyisha

Librarybelle Yay! Glad you liked it! 2y
katy4peas @Librarybelle I loved it! I‘m slowly working through your list. There are a few others I really want to get to soon! Didn‘t make it through in January, but I will read them! 😊📚📚 2y
Librarybelle I‘m working through your list too, so no worries! 2y
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Juliet gets it…📖📖 a couple of my coworkers decided to create a book club and this is our first read together! Love how all the characters are into reading❤️ a wonderful story so far in letter format. Also longest title ever!! Happy reading!

Dragon Love this book 💚🐉 2y
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asterese
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I love this book. Love it so much, I may have found my new favorite book of all time. It is my new favorite book of all time. Epistolary novels are the best sort of books, in my opinion. And it helps here to have a really endearing character in Juliet Ashton. I want to read this over and over again. There are really sad things mentioned here, and I am grateful that the authors did not shy away from describing them. People shouldn't forget history.

asterese And she adds all these characters, who all stand out in their own way, and every page then matters. Truly a classic and the loveliest book I've ever read in my life.

⭐: 5 (Can I add more?)
2y
marleed I loved this book too! I watched the limited series, as well. I liked it for the ambiance but I much preferred the book for the characters. The series rolled up multiple book characters to a single person. 2y
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asterese
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"Booksellers really are a special breed."

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I can‘t stick with any new book right now, so I‘m back listening to a favorite while I knit- something I haven‘t done in ages, but I finished this scarf for my sister today!

Tamra Love those colors! 2y
Soubhiville It‘s so pretty! 2y
mommyincolortv Very pretty! I croxhet and have decided to get back into it by crocheting a scarf for my 3yo son to combat this NY winter. 2y
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Bookzombie Pretty! 2y
kspenmoll Love the colors! 2y
julesG Pretty colours. 2y
StaceGhost This is gorgeous! I bet she loves it ❤️my sister ordered socks & I‘m dreading it lol 2y
StaceGhost @mommyincolor I‘m knitting mittens for my 3yo bc he has to pick up all the snow every time he sees it lol 2y
DivineDiana Beautiful! I have bought my supplies for my very first project! 🧶 2y
ravenlee How lovely! Nicely done. 2y
readordierachel So pretty! 2y
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asterese
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One of the things I love about getting books secondhand is finding little surprises between the pages like stickers, a bookmark added by the bookseller or left behind by a previous reader, or a sheet of tabs for marking favorite passages in the book. 🌼

What else do other readers like about secondhand books?

crazyspine I live finding inscriptions when people give the books as gifts but then it kind of bums me out to see that the person ended up getting rid of a thoughtful gift. 2y
crazyspine I also like it when I get library books and the previous patron leaves his or her receipt, so I can see what other books thschecked out 2y
crazyspine They checked* 2y
asterese @crazyspine I feel the same way, about the books people get as gifts and gettting rid of them after. Although it is interesting to see the messages written inside. 😯 2y
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asterese
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First book mail of 2022! 😍 I've seen this book, and the film adaptation being talked about often over the years, but I was never interested until now. I just finished the film, and I loved it, and the book came in timely today. 💝

I thought it would fit in nicely with the theme of the book to get my copy secondhand. There's nothing like giving old books new homes.