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Anne’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anne’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Anne Goodwin
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Sugar and Snails
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Matilda Windsor is Coming Home
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Stolen Summers
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Underneath: A psychological suspense novel inside the mind of an ordinary man who keeps a woman captive in a cellar
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Lyrics for the Loved Ones
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Becoming Someone
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GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue 4
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2009
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The Best of Fiction on the Web
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2018
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Somebody’s Daughter
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In the Shadow of the Red Queen
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2009
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Pride, prejudice and enduring popularity
Hard to believe it's almost a year since I posted here. On the other hand, it feels so long I'd almost forgotten how to do it. I'm mostly on my other website – which you can find via this link (ANNE GOODWIN'S WRITING NEWS) – but this, a version of my latest newsletter, seems more appropriate for Annecdotal.
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of literary legend, Jane Austen, whose early Read more of this blog post »
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of literary legend, Jane Austen, whose early Read more of this blog post »
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Exactly six months on from publication, I’m one happy author, delighted readers have warmed to this novel and particularly to Matty, the quirky main character. Readers smile at her alternative logic while raging at the injustice she has suffered. I’m
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| Admirable sociopolitically but such a boring read. The author's note was the most interesting aspect. DNF at 100 pages ...more | |
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| Gorgeous prose tells the story of an ambitious medieval abbess, fizzling out somewhat at the end. | |
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| A woman is researching a book about ancient forms of prophecy and prediction, which proved to have uncanny echoes with the anxieties and turbulence of 2020. One of the funniest novels about the Covid 19 pandemic and perhaps the most evocative of the ...more | |
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| Poignant story of enduring grief when an adult child goes missing. I do love an unlikeable point of view character but I struggled with Kathleen's version of self-harm through smoking after a tooth extraction. ...more | |
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| A Trinidadian tragedy I wish I could say I'd appreciated more. But the style was so distancing I found it hard to engage with the characters ...more | |
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| Fabulous follow-up to Cecily | |
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| 6 stars for the poignant story of the man kept indoors for 25 years, beautifully told in reverse so that you gradually discover why. 2 stars for the pseudo art therapist's affair with a married colleague. Didn't help that the novel sets off with the ...more | |
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| A fairly light dystopian story about a serious subject. | |
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| Painfully slow and I couldn't connect with the characters, I think because – although it was often witty – some of the humour seemed forced. I did manage to finish, but only by skipping chunks, and enjoyed how the adult children could finally begin t ...more | |
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| Fond memories of reading this decades ago but this time around I felt the interesting anecdotes didn't justify the tedious rumblings that were wrapped up in. ...more | |
“I write to tame and organise the thoughts that bubble in my head. I write for the part of me that’s inconsolable and don’t have the hands or the talent for painting, pottery or the piano. I write because it’s proven more effective than screaming to communicate my personal truths. I write because publication provides the perfect payback for a painful childhood and because I’m addicted to alliteration, a glutton for grammar and ruled by the rule of three. I continue writing to discover where my imagination will take me; because if I stopped, I’d no longer be me.”
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“What I long for with a deep ache inside me is sacred music. I long for the Fauré Requiem, for the Haydn “Mass in Time of War,” for some pure celestial music that could lift me above myself, into that sphere where great art lives, beyond what man can be in himself, the intimation of the sacred—what cannot be dirtied or smudged by wickedness or by anger, which no threat can touch.”
― As We Are Now
― As We Are Now
“Old age is really a disguise that no one but the old themselves see through. I feel exactly as I always did, as young inside as when I was twenty-one, but the outward shell conceals the real me—sometimes even from itself—and betrays that person deep down inside, under wrinkles and liver spots and all the horrors of decay. I sometimes think that I feel things more intensely than I used to, not less. But I am so afraid of appearing ridiculous. People expect serenity of the old. That is the stereotype, the mask we are expected to put on. But”
― As We Are Now
― As We Are Now
“My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a “symptom”? There”
― As We Are Now
― As We Are Now
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