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Summary: Magnificent
Review: I rented this book out at my local library, and I would have to say that reading it was some of the greatest non-educational reading that I've done for quite some time. I really did enjoy this book very much, and it was tastefully done in a wholesome way. I definately recomend this book to anyone who even looks at it out of curiosity.
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Summary: The Love
Review: This book was well written and I believe that it is a must read for anyone that is a lesbian and unsure of what life will bring. After coming out at a young age in some cases.
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Summary: I can't get Annie off my minf
Review: I read 'Nora and Liz' by Nancy Garden and was so impressed that I bought 'Annie on my Mind'. Now, after reading it practically nonstop, I can't get Liza, the story teller, off my mind. This is a wonderful story of love and self realization as two seventeen year-old young women find each other and love. Nancy Garden has crafted this book so expertly that you feel Liza's confusion, fears and, ultimately, joy as she emerges from little girl things to final acceptance of who she is and what she truly wants. I urge you to read this sweet, magical book and travel the journey with Liza; you wont be able to get her and Annie off your mind.
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Summary: Greatest Book I've Ever Read!
Review: This book.. I don't know how to put everything I felt for this into words. I was recommended this book on amazon, so I went to my local library and surprisingly enough they had it, so I checked it out. I had read the excerpt amazon offered, and I couldn't wait to read more of the book. I finished this book in maybe 5 hours, I couldn't put it down. The story is so compelling and it hit so close to home for me. The two heroines in this book, you can feel their love. I felt every emotion Liza felt. This book is so well written, it's unbelieveable. I recommend this to anyone of any age, any gender, and any sexual preference. Though I think it will really touch any teenage lesbian that has faced prejudice, coming out, and first loves. This book, it's incredible. Nancy Garden is now my favorite author. Oh, and I give this book twelve out of five stars. This is a must read!
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Summary: The best book for girls!
Review: I loved this book!!!! Everything about this book was enjoyable to me. I felt like I was reading my life in novel form. The way the Liza and Annie fall in love is so tender and sweet, I almost cried. If you are at all interested in love stories, lesbian books, or good romance I say give it a try!!! You won't walk away unsatisfied. I could not put it down, it was a real page turner.
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Summary: Insert clever heading...
Review: This book is the first book I have read that deals with lesbianism, and just coming of age. I enjoyed it so much to the point where I started to read it right when I got it, read it until midnight, went to sleep, woke up at six in the morning, opened it up again, and finished it off. This book doesn't have the lesbian cliches or anything, it doesn't really even label them, its just two people that are in love with each other, and undergo ignorance and stupidity...I recommend this book to anyone who just wants a good love story... I will soo not give awy the ending, because its kind of predictible anyway, but still, all I have to say is Rosebud...Yeah, someone told me, and it totally ruined Citizen Kane(sp?) for me.
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Summary: wow.
Review: This being the first book I discovered about lesbian fiction, I only wanted to read more. Since I have read more lesbian fiction that focuses more on the physical attraction or sex. This book is a true romance story. I absolutely loved it. It was very powerful and passionate, and after reading it you cannot deny that two people of the same sex can love eachother.
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Summary: good for all
Review: no matter if you are gay or straight you should read this book a great love story and a good read. thou wriiten twenty years ago it is not dated.
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Summary: The book's message: "Don't let ignorance win - let love."
Review: Published in 1982, Annie on My Mind remains one of the most censored and controversial teen novels, but it is, even after twenty years, remarkable for two reasons: its emphasis on the healing (even redemptive) power of love and its departure from young adult books that, as Michael Cart has observed, subscribed to "the idea that to be homosexual is to be doomed, either to a premature death or to a life of despair at the darkest margins of society." (Booklist Youth, v. 95) Annie On My Mind tells the story of two young women, each with loving families but outsiders at their respective schools, who meet at a museum in New York, quickly becoming friends and, later, lovers. The book is told from the perspective of Liza, a student at a private high school governed by an authoritarian principal. When Liza and Annie get caught making love in the house of two lesbian teachers, not just their lives but others' are irrevocably changed. The book is certainly dated (it reminds me of books like The Cat Ate My Gymsuit and others of the same general era) and flat in places, and some aspects are painted with rather broad strokes - without much attention to the complexities of class and ethnicity, for example. But it is a moving and honest invocation of teenaged angst, one that captures the tentativeness of new love. One strength is that the book offers a sympathetic portrayal of the various characters. They are, in the end, human - flawed, ambiguous, cautious. There is no one villain; most of the characters are well-meaning, if painfully awkward. Overall, even after two decades, the book still stands as a sensitive portrayal of the naturalness of young love and one young woman's emerging understanding that the private is, if not political, then politicized.
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Summary: An amazing read
Review: I loved this book. It is a must read for any teenager trying to figure out who they are and tfying to find their place in the world.
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