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By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 21 posts · 27 views
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 21 posts · 27 views
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I loved it! It was great, awesome, delightful, phenomenal. It was a masterpiece.
Perhaps, it is hard to believe, but I have just read it for the first time. And I am thirty-five years old. Of course, I knew who Anne Shirley was but my knowledge was far from the truth. Now I know a real Anne and I love her and her world, all those people.
I can't believe that someone could write so fantastic book for children (and not only for them). I was overjoyed reading it.
It was funny, moving, interesting, tru ...more
Perhaps, it is hard to believe, but I have just read it for the first time. And I am thirty-five years old. Of course, I knew who Anne Shirley was but my knowledge was far from the truth. Now I know a real Anne and I love her and her world, all those people.
I can't believe that someone could write so fantastic book for children (and not only for them). I was overjoyed reading it.
It was funny, moving, interesting, tru ...more

I am very late to the Anne of Green Gables party, and it is such a shame, because I think I really would have loved this if I had read it first when I was around Anne’s age. Also, while living in Japan, where the book seems to enjoy universal adoration, it was the book that popped up the most in conversation. The shock in the faces when people found that I had not read it effectively shamed me, and I read it almost grudgingly this year. I am glad that I did.
Anne is on fire with life, she is qui ...more
Anne is on fire with life, she is qui ...more

Dec 29, 2014
Luísa Meireles
marked it as to-read

Jan 21, 2015
victoria
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Mar 21, 2017
Barbara
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May 04, 2017
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