The Travels of Annie T. Hastings is literary fiction at it’s best. The story is of Annie T. Hastings, a woman in her 70’s desperate to find the past she left behind some 40 years ago. The story is based on the travels of the author’s mother and the journals she left behind upon her death.

If you could do one thing in your life that you always wanted to do, what would it be? Write a novel? Skydive? Learn to surf?

When I read the inside blurb to this book, I couldn’t wait to tear into and read it. While the novel turned out to be well-written, I was quickly disappointed by the plot.

For the past five years or so a new type of women’s fiction has been taking readers by storm. The genre called Chic Lit or Chick Lit has hooked many readers despite the first doubts about the survival of these types of books.

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