Books like 84 charing cross road6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() I’m so glad that your letter found me, and that my book found you. I knew, as soon as I got to this passage, that this novel was going to become a favorite: One morning, sitting in a coffee shop, desperate to distract myself from my inability to make it through 1984 (sorry, George it was me, not you), I fished out the only other book in my purse: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. ![]() Looking back, it must have been the buzz surrounding the film adaptation, also released in 2018, what sparked my interest.Įither way, this novel found me during a fairly bad reading slump. It’s not like it was a hidden gem: the book became a New York Timesbestseller in 2009. How I managed to miss its existence before then, I have no idea. ![]() I’ve been on a quest to find books like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society since I first read it in 2018, a full decade after its publication. ![]()
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