Miguel Centeno Centeno itibaren Oles'k, Volyns'ka oblast, ウクライナ
My mother was eager to share this book with me and she was ill (and couldn't wait because she was dying, unknown to me) the year I was 11, so she got it for me to read. Read it for the first time when I was 11 and I liked it but didn't love it. I hadn't quite reached the maturity level of adolescent interests, and I also felt it just cut off at the end, which of course it did. Some kids are ready to read this at 11 or younger, but for me, a first reading would have been ideal at 12 or 13. Would have understood better Anne's difficulties with her mother and her budding romantic friendship with Peter, and also, since this was my first holocaust book, just how high the stakes were for Anne and her fellow Secret Annex residents. Have reread it several times, as a teen & adult and I do really love it, so much so that it's inspired me to read many other Anne Frank books.
Big disappointment. Big.
This made me fall in love with Dickens. Pip is one of my favorite heroes out there and was the original lost orphan out to find his meaning in life. Very Harry Potter for the Victorian England generation.