My Name is Anna

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Final Thought: A Girl Named Anna is going to be perfect for mystery lovers that don't mind teenage protagonists. I think this book is best read mostly blind, so don't take my word for it - go on and read it yourself!

I have always written in fits and starts, but about five years ago I started writing my first serious novel – a very long and drawn out literary fiction piece based on my grandmother’s life in Mandate Palestine, pre-Suez Cairo and post-war London. As Eighteen year old Anna decides to defy her strict mother’s wishes and plans a trip to ‘Astroland’, one of Florida’s most popular theme parks. Y’all, this is Barber’s debut novel, and it is BEYOND good. I absolutely recommend this, if you couldn’t tell. The end for me, was particularly meaningful. The last moments, the realisation, the conclusion, the story that ended, or the one that never begun, all the things we could’ve been, but are not, and all the things that we wish we could have changed, but we can’t.A Girl Named Anne is told from the viewpoint of two girls. One, Anna, whose story is slightly more important, and a second, Rosie, whose voice is far more engaging. The story centers on what happened to Rosie's missing sister, Emily, who went missing when Rosie's British family was visiting Astroland (aka Harry Potter land aka Star Wars World aka Disney World) Hello again. I wonder what Paul wants to say to Anna? Could it have something to do with Rachel, the pen thief - or is it just to do with biscuits?! Let's find out. Anna’s got the hang of this – she’s on fire – I mean, she’s doing really well. Her cold calling technique has really warmed up. She’s pitched the products now she needs to sell. The title of song originated from something that Ringo Starr said. In a interview he said that they had worked all day and night on a job. “I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said 'It's been a hard day... and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ...night!” So we came to 'A Hard Day's Night'.” It was said that the song captured The Beatles at the peak of Beatlemania and was the most exciting time in pop culture up to that moment and probably ever since.

The phrase “Take This Job and Shove It”, then developed into the most notable title of dozens of books: “Take This Job and Love It” and became the leading title for most career counselling books Work Classics We all know the cliché phrases about money, “Another Day, Another Dollar”, “Money makes the world go round”, “Show me the money!” and thousands more. You would think as a society we were obsessed with the word as well as the object, but does money make the world go round? It almost had a slightly anti-climactic feel to it especially the finale which for me felt a bit flat.Most surprising novel of the year so far! I loved this debut, it was so much deeper and darker than I thought it would be. If you, like me, are into kidnapping stories, amazing twists and thriller stories that take your breath away, this will definitely be the perfect book for you. This will be a hit at the beginning of 2019, and it will hit the top shelves. I know it hits my favourite shelf – for sure! From each category, we have chosen the best song to represent the category have a read through and see if any of these classics will become a new working theme tune and maybe add some of your own tunes Do you mind Tom. Now, what I’m thinking is we put the feelers out – do some cold calling, see what people are buying at the moment. Anna lives with her religious neat-freak mother and she's destined to lead a strict and frugal life. I didn't envy her life and I certainly didn't like her mother. Rosie on the other hand was raised in a warm and affectionate family, she smokes, drinks and goes to parties (without her mum knowing). She'll never be like other teenagers though, the fact that her sister is missing casts a big shadow on their family. The grief of this entire broken family of parents, a sister and even the brother who doesn't even know the missing girl was so touchingly described that it made my heart ache.

I started taking regular classes with Maggie Hamand at the Complete Creative Writing Course, which made me completely rethink my approach to writing, and was invaluable in shaping the way I wrote. You know most of what is going on before you get too far into the book, but it still managed to throw me a few twists that I didn't see coming. There are moments that I would consider pulse-pounding, but overall I was expecting a little bit more than what I got. However, the ending was fantastically done, and I could definitely see this turning into more books if the author would so choose. I know I would read them! The phone call was from Luigi Bonomi of LBA Books telling me I had WON the Daily Mail and Random House First Novel Prize 2017 The Scientist” is a piano-driven ballad containing lyrics about a man's powerlessness in the face of love. Although the song is not talking about the traditional workplace, we chose this song because “The Scientist” is working towards answering questions that people want answering – as scientists do. The use of the internet and forums in the story is fascinating as people ‘air their ideas’....but someone knows more than they are saying....I think it was quite obvious the connection between Anna and Emily even from the synopsis and the line on the front cover " what if your whole life was a lie?"; the book was more about working out why and how the events happened. There are a lot of questions to answer throughout the storyline including but not limited to who exactly the mysterious sinister 'Father Paul' is who keeps popping up. The story is narrated by Anna and Rosie in alternate chapters and both girls were interesting likeable leads to follow as they respectively try to discover the truth. I found the ending a little abrupt and would have liked to have known more about what would have followed but overall I definitely enjoyed this book and look forward to future books by the author.