August 8th, 2009
Reading By the Sea
The suggestions for Reading by the Sea were given by a good friend, Dick, who lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
There are times that you just want to curl up with a good book and forget what is around you, whether you are on vacation or not.
Dick mentions that he first recommends a book that he just, and finally, has read – Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. In his own words he says that it has to be the best written love story of English literature. He was amused, enchanted, could not put it down, and nothing in the least way sexy but the writing left him gasping in admiration.
He mentions 2 reviews pulled from Amazon and he agrees with them. I am not going to rewrite that here because you can look it up in the Amazon’s web site.
Both books are set in the WWII resistance, one light, one noir, but they are impossible to put down once you start. These books are mysteries that engage you in trying to figure out what happened. They will transport you to Europe, where Dick said he would rather be at the moment. He mentions too that the first book is slyly resonant of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice”.
The books Dick is talking about are:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A Good Death
I would like to thank Dick for sending this information. I hope he will send us some more book reviews in the future.
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