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from Nancy Chick
Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels are a delight! The basis for HBO's series True Blood, these novels are told from the wonderful voice of Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, as she encounters her first vampire as they've "come out of the coffin." (The series began before the Twilight phenomenon, and there are some overlaps, though I think Sookie is a very different heroine from Bella.) Sookie often describes her telepathy as a "disability," the vampires are seeking equal rights in mainstream America, and other formerly fictional creatures walk among us as what we consider "normal" is turned upside down.
from Pat Cowan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is a very enjoyable read about warm-hearted, clever people and their small acts of heroism during WWII. First, they pretend to have a book club, and then they do have one. This book affirms the power of books to nourish people during hard times. The entire book is a series of letters, written by 20 some people, first mostly from London, then from Guernsey. Another interesting bit is that Mary Ann Shaffer was encouraged by the members of her book club to write a book--this book.
from Lisa Mink
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is a delightful novel of letters written in 1946. Their subject: the people and events taking place on the Isle of Guernsey during and after WWII. The society of the title was formed to protect its members from the occupying German force, but it became a support group as well as a place where its members could read and discuss some surprising literary choices. A funny, yet moving look at how people cope in difficult times.
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