#12Booksof2025
My October favorite was this imagining of Anne Frank‘s life before going into hiding. Starting out as just a young girl with young girl problems and then her world begins to change.
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I feel like the meaning of the book that the title suggests got a bit lost in the storytelling of the relationship between the two main characters. But maybe the relationship is the story.
I tried to do a #Top25of25 but only managed a Top Twenty. I havent read as much as other years! Thanks to all the Littens who recommended so many of these books to me - I get to read such great books thanks to you!
The top two lines are my top ten in no particular order, but I think The Safekeep is probably my book of the year. And props to Arkady Martine, Ive loved her sci fi So Much, shes here twice 🙌
pickSo glad that I finally read this. Love that this work of art was given a fictional story that now sheds a different light on this painting by Vermeer when I view it. Loved this and it should be a classic.
pickA compelling novel about two women drawn together in post-war Netherlands. This gripped me & I kept wanting to get back to it. Strong writing & the characters were well developed, flawed & complex. Isabel was deeply prickly & unlikeable but I was invested in what happened. It veered on overwrought for me towards the end, a little unrealistic. But I loved the portrait of a family, slice of history & exact writing.
pickThis book is slow to build. While reading it you know from the famous painting that Griet will be the subject of a painting. It‘s a cometary on woman of her time. Griet doesn‘t have much choices, she could have been a great artist herself I think. I think the ending was perfection; she has given herself something just for her. I feel everyone in this story was using her and wonder what her life would have been in another time. Excellent book.
