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Love the cover.

ANNELIES is about Anne Frank and describes what the author thinks she would have been like had she lived.

Mr. Gillham did an outstanding job of researching as well as using a creative method of portraying Anne Frank's life as it may have been even though she did not survive the Holocaust.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/3byertns

Has anyone read this yet

The Diary of Anne Frank is a favorite read from middle school so when I saw this book reimagining a world where she survives I couldn't pass it up.

I appreciated that the author showed us the dark side of surviving. Anne was angry, distrustful of the people she once loved, and she was so overcome with guilt that she had a hard time moving past everything. She uses her writing though to help her heal, and it's a beautiful process to see unfold.

Interesting book!
I like how it doesn't start when she comes out of camp.
I think a lot of people who have read Anne's Diary think about the "what if" and seeing her grow up in a way is nice and refreshing

This was entertaining, but frustrating. Understandably, the author would not want to mess with anne Frank and her story, but it felt timid and as though anne and her father did not evolve or learn.

Because apparently I feel like I need to wreck my psyche this #reversereadathon by consuming WWII fiction. I‘ll admit, I wasn‘t enamored with Anne Frank as a child; maybe this had to do with being a precocious reader, because by the time it was assigned in school I‘d already read plenty of (horrifying for a young child) books about the Holocaust. But I‘m really interested in this speculative book.

THIS BOOK. It wrecked me in all the right ways. Have you ever read The Diary of Anne Frank? It is a lifelong favorite of mine—I‘ve read it probably 10 times and have also read a lot of supplementary books about Anne‘s life and death as well. This book is a fictional tale imagining Anne‘s post-war years if she had lived, and wow. Well-researched, heartbreaking, and hopeful. So, so well done. This one will be with me for awhile.

What if Anne Frank survived? That is the question this book seeks to answer.

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Thank you to @VikingBooks for sending me this. This was an amazing piece of speculative fiction. Here is the link to my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2592830585

Looking forward to adding this to my #weekendreads as my hold just came in!

Hope you‘re all stacked up with good books!

An alternate history in which Anne Frank survives the Holocaust. It is difficult to describe how I feel after finishing this book. It makes me wonder more about the survivors‘ lives after the end of the war. We read about war experiences, but not much about their struggles of adjusting to society again. Heartbreaking and beautiful, this book gave me a lot to think about.

I was fortunate to find this available at the library today! 🤓

#bookmail with a theme. Thank you @VikingBooks for Annalise and thank you @Crownpublishing for D-Day Girls and Wunderland. So I have to get busy with these after I finish my library books.

So much good #bookmail this year so far. Gillham imagines Anne Frank‘s life had she survived the Holocaust. Looking forward to reading this one!

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RE-TELLING

PUB DAY was yesterday - CONGRATS!!

If you are an Anne Frank fan, you won‘t want to miss reading this book.

Anne Frank has always been of interest, and Mr. Gillham creates a heartbreaking re-telling of what she and her family endured.

ANNELIES is a beautiful, heartfelt book you will want to absorb with attention to every detail.

https://bit.ly/2MbWWi2

HAPPY PUB DAY!!

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ANNELIES is about Anne Frank and describes what the author thinks she would have been like had she lived.

ANNELIES is a beautiful, heartfelt book you will want to absorb with attention to every detail.

Anne seems as though she was and would have been a feisty young lady that the world has missed and could have learned from. 5/5

BOOKS BY DAVID R. GILLHAM

Mr. Gillham‘s books are wonderful.

I have reviewed CITY OF WOMEN (https://bit.ly/2QmTNQV).

ANNELIES will be reviewed on my blog on January 15...PUB DAY!!

Have you read either book or plan to read either?

If you haven‘t, you will want to. 😊 ♥️

This book absolutely wrecked me!
ANNELIES is a heartbreaking alt-history novel that explores the life of Anne Frank if she had survived the concentration camp.
My full review will be on Roots & Reads soon.

Author LOVE!!

Always a lovely gesture to help out an author!!

FULL REVIEW WILL BE ON JANUARY 15, 2019 - PUBLICATION DATE.

ANNELIES is about Anne Frank and describes what the author thinks she would have been like had she lived.

Mr. Gillham did an outstanding job of researching as well as using a creative method of portraying Anne Frank's life as it may have been even though she did not survive the Holocaust.

Review excerpt is continued in the comments.

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1. Orange - my tagged book.
2. My Kindle Cover has flowers on it...orange, red, blue.
3. Purple
4. It is a picture of another book by the author of the book I am reading: City of Women
5. Purple, gold chain with a book charm, and the letter P which is green.
6. A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
7. No clue...LOL!!
8. THE VENGEANCE OF MOTHERS is colorful and matches with the book I am reading this weekend.

Happy Weekend!!

What are YOU Reading this weekend?

ENJOY!! ❤️