I just started reading this book last night – this book which I’ve heard about from every corner of the earth but hadn’t picked up yet until one day the book club I’ve been meaning to join for months now but have been dragging my heels about actually joining, but I swore I was going to do it – picked this book as their next book and I decided it was time to jump on the bandwagon and check both the book and the club out once and for all.
I’m about forty pages in and already, already I have quotes I’m just dying to share with you – quotes that perfectly explain why I am falling madly in love with this book. Quotes that I would normally recite outloud to my husband while he was trying to sleep except when I was reading them he was in the living room working on god knows what which means the quotes are still lingering in my head, waiting for someone to share them with so I can squeal and go, “I know, right??” Lucky you.
Ready?
“…booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one – the margin profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it – along with first dibs on the new books.”
– from page 15 of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
“That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrically progressive – all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
– page 11 of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Mommablogsalot 