Lesbians And Gays Of The Past #11: Book Review of Annabel and I, by Chris Anne Wolfe
Did you watch When Marnie Wa There? Were you also both disappointed and weirded out by the plot twist? Well I have the book for you!
Annabel and Jennifer first meet as young girls one summer and quickly become friends. This novel follows them over 11 years as they navigate growing up, figuring out their sexuality, their growing relationship and the tribulations of their distance.
Every summer they are able to meet over the lake, however, they are from two completely different time periods, and only have a pocket of time where they are able to see each other. This story follows how they handle that distance and what they do to overcome it.
A very sweet lesbian romance reminiscent of Studio Ghibli movies.
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✨BOOKS TO READ BASED ON YOUR FAVORITE STUDIO GHIBLI FILM✨
The books shown are as follows:
✨SPIRITED AWAY
- Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
- A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynn Jones
✨PRINCESS MONONOKE
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
✨MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
- The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
✨PONYO
- Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
✨KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
- Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
✨FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
- Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah
✨TALES FROM EARTHSEA
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara
- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
✨THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETY
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harlow
✨GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
- Never Let Me Go by Kashuo Ishiguro
- Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
- Everything I Never Told You By Celeste Ng
✨WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE
- Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine Saint-Exupéry
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
✨EXTRAS (adaptations or inspirations):
- Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
- Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- From Up on Poppy Hill by Tetsurō Sayama
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I just read the "When Marnie Was There" Book and holy shit let me tell you, the book is better. I did like the movie but like almost everyone else i hated that ending. It did not make sense there was not even the slightest foreshadowing but the book does it better, To me the ending in the movie felt so out of nowhere it felt like a whole jumpscare but in the book you can very much tell it was foreshadowed a couple of times especially in the "Mushrooms and Secrets" chapter. It made sense and the way they handled the reveal was also better, the charachter depths too. I am obsessed with the book. Even though this post won't get alot of views i might make a post about the Movie vs The Book.
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JOMP BPC - 21st February - All the Feels
There are lots of books I could have chosen, but for a change I went with a couple of childrens' books. During the uk covid lockdowns a friend organised a zoom-based book group focussed on childrens' books. I ended up reading quite a lot of books I hadn't read when I was young. Two that I really loved were When Marnie Was There and The Little Prince - both very moving.
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