found: diary of a young girl

" 12 June 1942

I hope I will be able to confide everything to you,as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support."

Thus we intrude in the 13th year of one called Anne Frank. I pray that are few among you whom are ignorant of what stands behind this simple name. If there are such, I will provide a link with the necessary information.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank ) I beg of those to first acquire the given information to fully understand the review that follows. For yes, it is a review. The review of the book entitled… but first a few words of how it got into my attention and subsequently into my possession.
As mentioned in the previous post I had a little fun around the country. Well…amid my touristic adventures in Brasov I had the good fortune to come across the lovely bookshop called Okian. I am familiar with this brand from one of our local book fairs and thus was rather pleased to find it in my path. Thus with the background knowledge that the bookshop contains nourishment for my hunger for books written in Shakespeare's language, I merrily skipped inside and found myself literally drooling in front of a lovely shelf full with Penguin Classics. After an hour I emerged into the world with a dumb glow of happiness in my eyes and a somewhat aired wallet. What I bought will be revealed through reviews that will surely follow. And here is the review of one of them.
I have long been yearning to read “The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank" ever since my 6th or 7th form when it popped up as a special chapter in our English textbook. I came across it last year in Sibiu but the price and my poor (or better-said nonexistent) knowledge of German, put it out of my reach. Thus imagine my joy when the book in question stood before my eyes in that sunny day in Brasov.
The book itself is written in a simple but coherent style with a first person narrative. The voice of the narrator is that of the girl that gives the title and it exploits the lives of 8 Jews: 2 families and one individual that are forced into hiding by the then current political conditions. Since the action takes place in the Second World War you can imagine the color of those conditions was.
I cannot be described as a sympathetic reader. I usually dislike the overuse of drama in my literature and I am more easily pleased if the hero dies in the end. Thus I was truly surprised that the girl's accounts of her every-day life could have such an effect on my little-sarcastic-self. She is such a tormented little thing with anxieties and worries and thought that we all have experienced at her age. Plus we feel their fear and relief before and after incidents in which they could have been discovered. And the most haunting of all is the knowledge of her end. The fact that I knew that she will never be able to become a journalist, to be different of the women of her kind and make her known through her work.
She did become known for her writing but her fame is crowned with tragedy not glory.

her truly humble servant,
Myself.