Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society Summary

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After reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, I had mixed reviews on the book as I found it quite confusing in the fact that the book was written in letter format such as characters would write letters to each other. I had originally thought it was an anthology series made up of multiple authors like literature to go. But had found out that this book is much different and somewhat more difficult, and slightly more boring and uninteresting than literature to go. In literature to go, there are multiple authors of different poems, literature etc. writing short stories that talk about different issues such as Romero’s shirt, Battle Royale etc. to name a few of the short stories that were in the book. But I found The Guernsey

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