Media Specialist Cindy Stafford founded the South Miami Senior High's Faculty & Staff Book Club three years ago; the first selection being Khaled Hosseni's The Kite Runner. The club is always happy to welcome new members from the staff and faculty.

Currently Reading:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

The next meeting is Thursday, April 22, 2010

 

Publishers Weekly (April 21, 2008)


The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume "Izzy Bickerstaff") writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used book and invites articulate--and not-so-articulate--neighbors to write Juliet with their stories, the book's epistolary circle widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories. The occasionally contrived letters jump from incident to incident--including the formation of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society while Guernsey was under German occupation--and person to person in a manner that feels disjointed. But Juliet's quips are so clever, the Guernsey inhabitants so enchanting and the small acts of heroism so vivid and moving that one forgives the authors (Shaffer died earlier this year) for not being able to settle on a single person or plot. Juliet finds in the letters not just inspiration for her next work, but also for her life--as will readers. (Aug.)

Book Club reads 2009-2010 School Year
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Gloria's
Pick
 

Book Club reads 2008-2009 School Year
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Book Club reads 2007-2008 School Year
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Book Club reads 2006-2007 School Year
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Teacher ManWater for ElephantsThe Rule of FourKabul Beauty SchoolA Thousand Splended Suns

Book Club reads 2005-2006 School Year
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The NamesakeFarenheit 451My Sister's KeeperThe EgptologistThe Eriver of Doubt

Book Club reads 2004-2005 School Year
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A Walk in the Woods