Modern Lit: Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen

magical, yes; real, no
Just as when everyone raves about a movie, it turns out to be a let down, so did Garden Spells for me. Books incorporating a little magic are appealing, but the apple tree in this story exceeded my ability to suspend my sense of credibility.
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Historical Fiction: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
Received this as an ARC from Amazon and fell right into this book on the very first page.
Love story
Like so many others, Englishwoman Juliet Ashton is still reeling from the horrors of WWII, during which she worked as a journalist in London. She still wants to write, [...]

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