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A review by anotherbooklady
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
5.0
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
-Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 19, Page 159 (Bantam Paperback)
One of my reading goals for 2021 was to read all of the Anne of Green Gables books. I’m happy to have returned to the fictional Avonlea to revisit old friends. The last time I read this book, my youngest daughter was in the fourth grade-she’s now getting ready to start her second year of University.
What can be said about AOGG that hasn’t already been said?
It’s a beautifully written story about an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. This story is about how Anne navigates her life with the Cuthberts, in school, and the community. There are a host of wonderful characters, all who give Anne something she has missed her whole life-love.
I adore Anne’s imagination. I love how she observes the world around her; giving new names to lakes and roads that were much more to her liking, looking for fairies in the garden, and longing for transformation.
I have highlighted so many passages in this book-the language is just so beautiful. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote this book from a very personal place, having been an orphan herself. She wrote about world she wanted to live in, and I wouldn’t mind living there, myself.
-Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 19, Page 159 (Bantam Paperback)
One of my reading goals for 2021 was to read all of the Anne of Green Gables books. I’m happy to have returned to the fictional Avonlea to revisit old friends. The last time I read this book, my youngest daughter was in the fourth grade-she’s now getting ready to start her second year of University.
What can be said about AOGG that hasn’t already been said?
It’s a beautifully written story about an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. This story is about how Anne navigates her life with the Cuthberts, in school, and the community. There are a host of wonderful characters, all who give Anne something she has missed her whole life-love.
I adore Anne’s imagination. I love how she observes the world around her; giving new names to lakes and roads that were much more to her liking, looking for fairies in the garden, and longing for transformation.
I have highlighted so many passages in this book-the language is just so beautiful. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote this book from a very personal place, having been an orphan herself. She wrote about world she wanted to live in, and I wouldn’t mind living there, myself.