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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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Somebody’s Daughter
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In the Shadow of the Red Queen
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2009
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My 12 favourite reads of 2024
I've read over a hundred books this year, but you wouldn't know it from looking at this blog. My reviews have been shrinking in both length and quantity in the past couple of years but seven review posts is a record low. In the past, I was happy to spend a whole day analysing a novel and sharing my thoughts. I even used to post my end of year stats. While I miss getting advance copies from publish
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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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Anne’s Recent Updates
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| In an alternative recent USA, a child is sent home from school for saying a slogan on a T-shirt is stupid because that kind of talk is now illegal. Forty pages in, I can't tell whether this is meant to be a satire on overzealous policing of discrimin ...more | |
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| At the heart of the novel is a premise familiar from schmaltzy movies: Enid Lambert wants her three adult children to spend one last Christmas in the family home in St Jude in the American Midwest. Yet the reader soon gathers that Enid wants the impo ...more | |
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| Over more than three centuries, the female descendants of Heloise Montbelliard, an aristocrat guillotined during the Reign of Terror, are blessed – or cursed – with vivid memories of their forebears' lives. This isn't as confusing as I might have exp ...more | |
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| Clever and extremely satisfying (I might have said enjoyable if not for the torture) retelling of 1984. It's a while since I've read Orwell's classic, so can't be absolutely sure, but this seemed a more vividly realised depiction of life under the re ...more | |
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| Desperate to escape poverty, Lettie wangles a place for her and her husband on a government-sponsored agricultural project. While the work is unfamiliar, her neighbours are as strange as they are supportive, and Tommy is no longer the man she married ...more | |
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| An innocent abroad lands herself in big trouble but she's better off than the locals. I get what people say about her being unbelievably naïve but I read it as a satire of foreign travel, Westerners seeking sun and cheap booze with no knowledge or in ...more | |
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| Deceptively simple story of an anxiety-riddled middle-aged man who flees early 21st-century England for the apparent tranquillity and old-fashioned Englishness of a southern Indian hill station. An understated and slightly distant style, with various ...more | |
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| Loved this. Fabulous prose, engaging love/coming-of-age story and clever contextualisation of a literary classic. | |
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| I've never been interested in any kind of aristocrats but this was wonderful. Cecily is a proud feminist before the word was invented with a fabulous voice. Look forward to the sequel. ...more | |
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“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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