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Yours Truly, Thomas by Rachel Fordham

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This poor blog sits neglected and forlorn, a pretty direct correlation to my reading life right now. I knew the summer would be busy, I had no idea it would be this busy and I would have so little time to read. I am so far behind on my book reviews and it makes me quite sad and a little anxious even. But fall is coming and hopefully I'll be able to read just a bit more then. But I did get this book read and am posting my review only one day late. Yours Truly, Thomas was a quick fun read based on an unusual premise. A clerk, Penny, at the Dead Letter Office in DC finds a letter from a heartbroken man out west and is determined to help him. You can already guess the ending of that story, but there's a few things to mine out of the story as well. Penny's attitude is one thing that stands out here. She was raised as a rich man's daughter, but after her father died, something happened and she had to go to work to support herself and her mother and that is how she wound