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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
I adored every second spent reading this book. I decided to read it alongside the TV series so that I could watch an episode, then read the fuller story here to get a deeper understanding. It was hard to resist reading it all at once! Anne led a truly remarkable life. I wish I could read every second of it, but I’m very thankful for the concise look into this short time that Anne Choma has given us.
DNF'd at page 161.
This book really was not what I wanted it to be sadly. I went in expecting it to be either Anne's diary or for it to be a story version almost. Unfortunately, the story is told very much like a biography. This personally wasn't what I was looking for but I think if you are looking for something like this, it is brilliant. The layout, the writing and the amount of detail given is beautifully done and is very wonderful. It really does help to tell Anne's story but due to it reading like a biography, I couldn't continue.
No ranking given due to DNF-ing but overall? Would probably give 4 stars based on quality of work.
This book really was not what I wanted it to be sadly. I went in expecting it to be either Anne's diary or for it to be a story version almost. Unfortunately, the story is told very much like a biography. This personally wasn't what I was looking for but I think if you are looking for something like this, it is brilliant. The layout, the writing and the amount of detail given is beautifully done and is very wonderful. It really does help to tell Anne's story but due to it reading like a biography, I couldn't continue.
No ranking given due to DNF-ing but overall? Would probably give 4 stars based on quality of work.
informative
slow-paced
Huge mistake to listen to this as an audiobook. I’ll watch the TV show though!
Four out of five incredibly dashing great coats!
This was such a nice, fun read! It’s a biography of Anne Lister, concentrating mainly on the time covered by the television show of the same name (which everybody should watch because it is a delight!). We get a very little bit of background on her earlier years and later years, but it’s really not much more than a few paragraphs.
Still, I didn’t really mind that. At some point I’d definitely like to read a full biography of Anne Lister, but as a companion to the show this is a really excellent read. It’s fascinating to see the similarities between the real events and the show – in many ways they’ve stuck surprisingly close to the true events.
There are differences too, and they are just as interesting. A show needs actual story threads, so you can see why and how they’ve pulled out real events to weave them through the main love story between Anne and Ann. I mean, admittedly, the love story is all I really care about but they need a bit of filler and external conflict and what-have-you, so fine!
It was really fun to read the decoded passages from Anne Lister’s diary, to see how she really felt about these events. I kind of wish there was an equivalent document from Ann Walker, to see how she really felt. As it is, we get Anne Lister’s perception of her friend’s feelings and mental illnesses and so on, and what the biographers have been able to deduce about what was going on with her, but we have no first-hand source, which is sad.
I thought this was well-written and organised. I don’t know how much the biographers have deliberately concentrated on the specific events that they chose to portray in the show – making it may have affected what they decided to put in the book. It’s hard to to tell, but either way, it makes a very interesting portrayal of a very interesting woman, and really it’s just made me want to know more!
This was such a nice, fun read! It’s a biography of Anne Lister, concentrating mainly on the time covered by the television show of the same name (which everybody should watch because it is a delight!). We get a very little bit of background on her earlier years and later years, but it’s really not much more than a few paragraphs.
Still, I didn’t really mind that. At some point I’d definitely like to read a full biography of Anne Lister, but as a companion to the show this is a really excellent read. It’s fascinating to see the similarities between the real events and the show – in many ways they’ve stuck surprisingly close to the true events.
There are differences too, and they are just as interesting. A show needs actual story threads, so you can see why and how they’ve pulled out real events to weave them through the main love story between Anne and Ann. I mean, admittedly, the love story is all I really care about but they need a bit of filler and external conflict and what-have-you, so fine!
It was really fun to read the decoded passages from Anne Lister’s diary, to see how she really felt about these events. I kind of wish there was an equivalent document from Ann Walker, to see how she really felt. As it is, we get Anne Lister’s perception of her friend’s feelings and mental illnesses and so on, and what the biographers have been able to deduce about what was going on with her, but we have no first-hand source, which is sad.
I thought this was well-written and organised. I don’t know how much the biographers have deliberately concentrated on the specific events that they chose to portray in the show – making it may have affected what they decided to put in the book. It’s hard to to tell, but either way, it makes a very interesting portrayal of a very interesting woman, and really it’s just made me want to know more!
I listened on audiobook and I wish I’d had a hard copy! Parts were redundant and repetitive, and I can only assume the repeats were narration of photos of Anne’s actual diary pages that ran alongside the typed pages themselves.
Really interesting, I'm rarely interested enough in anything from the 20th century and beforehand to be motivated to read much from those times, unless it's attributed to my formal education. I like that the show, for the most part, kept as committed to the real story that was recorded by Anne herself. It's refreshing to know a woman so headstrong about her life and confident in her 'alternative' sexuality existed in such a suffocating era of society.
I loved the tv series and this was a very good companion piece.