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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
[8/166]
Oh, Anne... oh, Anne.
Much like the characters of Avonlea, I was enraptured by Anne and her page-long speeches, brimming with personality and flair. Precociousness finds few better outlets than in Anne Cuthbert. Few slice-of-life stories this side of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women are told so tenderly, and while Anne of Green Gables is definitely a story with far lower stakes, both are the kinds of story I'd want my daughter to read.
We'd have to have chats on religion afterwards, of course, because Anne has to Shut Up Like A Good Christian Girl, Occasionally, and the standards for Good Behaviour (tm) are unmistakably dated (man you can tell this book is old but it's fortunately free of those moments in old books that make you suck in your breath and whisper "different time different time" to yourself over and over again), but Anne and the world around her are so colorful and wonderful that she does transcend her age.
It was also wonderful to read incidents within and realize, with a start, that they seemed familiar due to the times I'd read the book as a child. This may be one of the few stories I like as much now as I did then. The writing ages gracefully.
I smiled the whole time I read it.
Oh, Anne... oh, Anne.
Much like the characters of Avonlea, I was enraptured by Anne and her page-long speeches, brimming with personality and flair. Precociousness finds few better outlets than in Anne Cuthbert. Few slice-of-life stories this side of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women are told so tenderly, and while Anne of Green Gables is definitely a story with far lower stakes, both are the kinds of story I'd want my daughter to read.
We'd have to have chats on religion afterwards, of course, because Anne has to Shut Up Like A Good Christian Girl, Occasionally, and the standards for Good Behaviour (tm) are unmistakably dated (man you can tell this book is old but it's fortunately free of those moments in old books that make you suck in your breath and whisper "different time different time" to yourself over and over again), but Anne and the world around her are so colorful and wonderful that she does transcend her age.
It was also wonderful to read incidents within and realize, with a start, that they seemed familiar due to the times I'd read the book as a child. This may be one of the few stories I like as much now as I did then. The writing ages gracefully.
I smiled the whole time I read it.