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I really like Anne of Green Gables. I give the entire series four stars. I like all of the Anne books I have read so far, my least being Rainbow Valley. I like Anne's humor - chatty and and peppy- and I like most of the characters. I just finished House of Dreams, and it may have been my favorite in all.
I picked up Anne of Green Gables because I was challenged on Twitter to pick up a book I loved and read it, instead of picking up a book I should be reading. Anne understood me as a child, a teenager and as an adult. One last thing before I wrap this sentimental review up. I'm a person who loves and cherishes home and that, I think, is why I love this book so much.
Each illustration felt like an old friend had emerged from the shadows of my memory and waved hello, and just like that, once again, Anne has inspired my dramatic imagination to flare again. It's spine is broken and some of the pages are loose and stained with fingerprints or sustained water damage. This is the only book I've read the story in. There are very few in the readers world that are unfamiliar with this story. The movies made were fantastic and Megan Follows the perfect choice to play Anne with an E, but nothing can compare to the original story. My favorite scene in the book is when Anne, just after her performance at White Sands, speaks to the girls and talks about how she likes being just Anne of Green Gables. She was my literary kindred spirit, as I'm sure she was countless others as well.
The illustrations inspire memories of their own, laying on the top bunk of the bunk bed in my grandparents basement, sitting on the big, green chair in my parents living room, eating a sandwich at the battered, scuffed dining table. Anne of Green Gables is the story that comes to mind when I think about the books I read alone as a child. I read half of the book in a single evening, devouring it with the same satisfaction that I would my mom's potato salad or my grandmothers Texas cake. I still own the 1983 Junior Illustrated Edition of Anne of Green Gables.
Pick-up Anne of Green Gables immediately if not sooner for a real adventure. The writing is simply delightful - there is true magic between the covers of this book."Mrs Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops, and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-constructed little stream, for not even a brook could run past Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof."Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case - Montgomery's own words are the only ones that do the story justice. Anne is a unique and entertaining character in a novel full of interesting characters - I want to be Anne Shirley when I grow up. I'm re-visiting some old classics from my youth this summer, and L.M. Anne Shirley is wonderfully relatable - she is a smart and creative girl, full of spirit and amazingly introspective for someone her age. Montgomery crafted a true masterpiece with Anne of Green Gables.
The story is timeless and the setting is meticulously illustrated with a graceful use of words and phrases. Montgomery's beautiful series about the "Anne girl" is at the top of my list. Anne gets into so much trouble that it would be nearly impossible to chronicle in a review without retelling the whole story, so suffice it to say that she is definitely the queen of the caper. From Marilla and Matthew to their curmudgeonly neighbor Rachel Lynde, Montgomery created a fascinating cast of characters that are impossible to forget. The story is well-known and loved - purely by mistake, plucky orphan Anne Shirley comes to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Anne of Green Gables is one of my all-time favorite books.
They wanted a boy to help with the farm work, but what they got was a charmingly verbose little girl who quickly makes a place for herself in their lives. L.M.
I am looking forward to this project. In fact, I don't know how far I ever made it in the series, I don't think I have read them all, to be honest. What a perfect delight it has been to re-acquaint myself with Anne Shirley. This book will always stand out in my memory as the first book that ever made me cry - and while hundreds of other books have brought me to tears since then, even in re-reading this book nothing makes me cry harder than this one. Re-reading this has given me such pleasure, that I think I will have to re-read the whole series. This book just fills me with such joy.
Of course, Anne is not only a talkative girl but a good judge of people.Anne makes a lot of mistakes. She thanks love of Matthew and Marilla as her parents.In this book, I can see the growth of a girl who used to be an orphan and the process of a family which is made through happy and unhappy events.This book is, without doubt, a masterpiece which moves from children to adults from now on. She is strict to Anne. Her talks are full of spirit and vivacity. But it is very interesting to find that almost all of Anne's talks are toward Marilla.
Her imagination makes her keep talking. This story flows with her witty and creative talks. But every mistake makes her grow up even faster.Her foster mother Marilla is not used to raising a child. Her brightness and positive attitudes to life influence and change other people.Surounded with nature, she starts studying and later tries to go to Queen's.She learns what 'sensible' is. In the beginning of this book, Anne Shirley starts talking to Matthew Cuthbert when she meets him at the station.
One of the attractions of this book is her talks. Anne sometimes makes mistakes and comes into conflict with Marilla.
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