The anime pretty much follows the book until the ending, which cuts out the part with the Linsdays. Yes Marnie and Anna say they love each other. So that whole "queer baiting" thing is in the book too if you want to call it that. It's pretty much that Marnie was forced to marry Edward and then had k...
I didn't grow up with a great love of reading like many of my contemporary readers and writers. I read for fun as a child, but not voraciously. The books I read were not the classic adventures you may have read. Mostly, I read Garfield and Choose Your Own Adventure. I did read one or two Judy Blumes...