The Guernsey and the Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

By that time, it was time to board a plane from Rome to London, and I was out of books. You may wonder whether I need to up my testosterone supplementation, but I once again took a risk of digging into my wife’s traveling library and read, get this – no man would unknowingly read a book with this title: “The Guernsey and the Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Have I enticed anyone yet? I don’t think so. It is a book written about the channel island of Guernsey and the occupation of it by the Nazis during WWII, so you see the connection to Tallgrass. I’ve read so much about WWII, but like Tallgrass, it captures another perspective of it that I had not thought about before. Uniquely, it is written entirely with the use of letters of correspondence among the principles and sometimes peripheral characters. I never would have picked it up except under these very unusually circumstances, but it was a very enjoyable read and good literature.

WC Don