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A review by bloodhoney
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings by Anne Frank, Susan Massotty
4.0
I found this book after eleven years of looking. I knew that Anne Frank was a writer; I had been told, as a thirteen-year-old, that the girl my age had written stories and novels at the end of her diary. Where I could find these stories, no one could say.
Eleven years later, no longer thirteen, I found a copy of this book lying on a tilting pile of books in a fellow teacher's room and snagged it.
Since I am no longer Anne's age, the stories are not "good." Some of them are boring. But my thirteen-year-old self would have found meaning and insight in these stories, and my twenty-four-year-old self found insight into who I used to be, into who Anne Frank used to be. That's what matters to me.
Eleven years later, no longer thirteen, I found a copy of this book lying on a tilting pile of books in a fellow teacher's room and snagged it.
Since I am no longer Anne's age, the stories are not "good." Some of them are boring. But my thirteen-year-old self would have found meaning and insight in these stories, and my twenty-four-year-old self found insight into who I used to be, into who Anne Frank used to be. That's what matters to me.