2021: #34 – The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)

The Alice Network is a dual-timeline story about two women. In 1947 we have Charlie, an American college girl who is visiting Europe with her socialite mother in order to get a secret abortion. Except Charlie has other plans. Her French cousin Rose disappeared during World War II, and Charlie is determined to find out what happened to her. All she has to go on

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2017: #14 – The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows)

This is one of those books that has languished on my TBR list for years, but I continued to read good things about it and see people recommend it. And they were all right! What you find among all the letters is a pleasant story that taught me something I didn’t know about World War II. I had no idea that Guernsey was occupied by

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