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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
This is one of those books I'd never read and didn't know much about, even though everyone I grew up with loved it, and practically everyone I know at all has at least read it once. When I found this read by Rachel McAdams and included in my Audible membership, I figured it was time to give it a go.
There is no down side to reading this book, other than the fact that eventually it ends. It's just a great read. Sometimes the older language makes it a bit weird. For the first few chapters, when a character says something in a sassy tone, the speaker tag says they "ejaculated." While that's not exactly incorrect and I totally understood, you'd never put that in a newer book, and it did take me out of the moment a little at times because I wasn't expecting it. That's literally the only nitpicky "negative" I can even come up with, and I'm not sure it's even a negative at all.
This book made me vividly remember and even deeply FEEL the emotions and musings I had during my childhood. If Anne was in a situation in this book, so was childhood me, who was reading and understanding and enjoying this through the senses of adult me who was truly reading it in the literal sense. Anne's explanations of the way things happened endeared her to me in a way I didn't think was possible at the start of the book. At the beginning, I found her frustrating for a chapter, and then somehow felt myself from my childhood bonding with her. The child in me, who I wasn't even fully aware of previously, became fast friends with Anne. By the end of the book, I simultaneously felt that Anne was me, my best friend, and somehow my daughter (whom I don't even have in real life).
I laughed, I cried (and I mean the scrunched face, sobbing in the shower type of ugly crying, not the cutesy "a single teardrop fell" nonsense), and now I'll recommend it to everyone and their mother.
Now I've just to sit and think about my own bends in the road, and ponder what beautiful scope for imagination there is in my own life. I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Anne of Green Gables books.
Thanks, Anne.
There is no down side to reading this book, other than the fact that eventually it ends. It's just a great read. Sometimes the older language makes it a bit weird. For the first few chapters, when a character says something in a sassy tone, the speaker tag says they "ejaculated." While that's not exactly incorrect and I totally understood, you'd never put that in a newer book, and it did take me out of the moment a little at times because I wasn't expecting it. That's literally the only nitpicky "negative" I can even come up with, and I'm not sure it's even a negative at all.
This book made me vividly remember and even deeply FEEL the emotions and musings I had during my childhood. If Anne was in a situation in this book, so was childhood me, who was reading and understanding and enjoying this through the senses of adult me who was truly reading it in the literal sense. Anne's explanations of the way things happened endeared her to me in a way I didn't think was possible at the start of the book. At the beginning, I found her frustrating for a chapter, and then somehow felt myself from my childhood bonding with her. The child in me, who I wasn't even fully aware of previously, became fast friends with Anne. By the end of the book, I simultaneously felt that Anne was me, my best friend, and somehow my daughter (whom I don't even have in real life).
I laughed, I cried (and I mean the scrunched face, sobbing in the shower type of ugly crying, not the cutesy "a single teardrop fell" nonsense), and now I'll recommend it to everyone and their mother.
Now I've just to sit and think about my own bends in the road, and ponder what beautiful scope for imagination there is in my own life. I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Anne of Green Gables books.
Thanks, Anne.