”There’s no need for us to pretend to be other people any more, ever again, is there, Liza?” Annie said softly. She wanted us to identify with her characters and to understand them better and if you ask me she did a more than just decent job! -) I found myself in some of those lines and I also found other people I know, which is probably the reason why Nancy Garden wrote the book in the first place. I mean this is a book that’s been published 36 years ago, yet there still were so many moments my head and my heart could relate to. I think what surprised me the most, was how relatable this story was. You can’t go far with me holding on to you. And there is a rare ability to capture ordinary moments and to make them special somehow.Īnnie held my hand, stroking it softly. There is love in her writing, true love, the kind of love you only find once in a lifetime. There is something honest about Garden’s writing style, some truth that’s in her words and wants to be heard. What I certainly didn’t know, was how deeply this book would actually touch me.

I knew all this and it intrigued me enough to give the book a decent shot. I knew this book was published about 36 years ago and that Nancy Garden is a lesbian. I mean I knew ”Annie on My Mind” is an f/f romance and that it wasn’t only banned from school libraries but also publicly burned at some point. Oh my! This book hit me with so many different feels I didn’t even understand what was happening to me. ”Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can’t understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”

Annie on my mind