Thorndike Press Large Print Peer Picks: Letters from Skye (Hardcover)

from whitreidtan

I love letters. That's one of the reasons I love holiday season: all of those non-bill, non-junk mail things in the mailbox. I love reading cards from friends. Even better are the letters that still sometimes trickle in during the year when I least expect them in this age of internet, making a di...

from Beth_German

Letters from Skye might be considered historical fiction but it was a beautiful love story set during both World War I and World War II as told exclusively through letters. It was magnificent. In this current day of text, tweets, abbreviations and a general misuse of the English language, this wa...

from Olivermagnus

Letters from Skye is a book about friendship, illicit love, families, jealousy, and more blended together in one narrative spanning two wars and two continents. In 1912, University of Illinois student David Graham writes a fan letter to a reclusive Scottish poet, Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who lives on t...

from delphica

Two (kind of, one ends up being extremely secondary) epistolary love stories going on in tandem, one during WWI and the other during WWII. This was a little odd. Sure, many parts of it were charming. It's hard to pin down exactly what wasn't working for me. Or perhaps more accurately, a lot of th...

from curvymommy

One of my favorite genres lately is the era that stretches from WWI to WWII, so I was excited to read this story, as it seemed right up my alley. This book did not disappoint. It was a little slow going at first, but once I fell into the rhythm of Davey and Elspeth's letters, I found myself unabl...