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Anthea’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anthea’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Anthea Syrokou
Goodreads Author
Born
Sydney, Australia
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Influences
Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde.
Member Since
March 2017
My New Novel is Available on Amazon!
Hi everyone!
I'm so excited that the Kindle edition & the paperback edition for my latest novel, Curiosity Spares the Butterfly, have both been published and are now available on Amazon! The novel is a contemporary literary fiction/mystery novel, and it is primarily set in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, and parts of Sydney.
You can read the blurb & the first few chapters of the book on the Amazon Read more of this blog post »
I'm so excited that the Kindle edition & the paperback edition for my latest novel, Curiosity Spares the Butterfly, have both been published and are now available on Amazon! The novel is a contemporary literary fiction/mystery novel, and it is primarily set in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, and parts of Sydney.
You can read the blurb & the first few chapters of the book on the Amazon Read more of this blog post »
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"A flawed masterpiece. Unfortunately, Leo Tolstoy the historian/philosopher is not on the same level as Leo Tolstoy the writer. He is too repetitive and didactic. His decision to make Napoleon and Kutuzov almost the main characters in the second half "
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"I read this because I enjoyed The Goldfinch so much. This, her first book, had great reviews and consequently I think I was expecting to find more riches than I actually did. It’s a story about a group of students studying at a New England college an"
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"A well written but very strange book. I have very mixed emotions about the characters, who are pretty awful folks but somehow strangely compelling. As someone else wrote, "not a whodunit, but a whydunit". And interesting to follow the characters thro"
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Thanks for your wonderful review, Wendy. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. : )
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“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.”
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“Some people will never change, so we can’t change them, but we can change how we interact with them.”
― The Greek Tapestry
― The Greek Tapestry
“You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.”
― Eventually Julie
― Eventually Julie
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“You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.”
― Eventually Julie
― Eventually Julie
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
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Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
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“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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Candace wrote: "Anthea,Thanks for the friend invite. I read your blurb and Bobby's review of your book, Eventually Julie (Julie & Friends, #1). It was a good write up and I enjoyed them. I'm adding your book to m..."
Thanks for accepting my friend invite, Candace. I appreciate your kind words - very inspiring. Bobby's review of Eventually Julie is beautiful. Thanks for adding it on your TBR list. I hear that you have some writing projects as well. I wish you all the success with your writing also! :)
Anthea,Thanks for the friend invite. I read your blurb and Bobby's review of your book, Eventually Julie (Julie & Friends, #1). It was a good write up and I enjoyed them. I'm adding your book to my TBR list.
Happy Reading & Successful Writing,
Candace
