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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

Start date: October 5, 2018

Finish date: October 30, 2018

Discussion: Retro Children & YA Books

Discussion leader: Hana

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Jun 08, 2018 Mela rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, public-domain, group-virago-modern-classic, historical-fiction, historical-period-long-19th-century, region-canada, audio-book, series, psychological-and-philosophical, young-and-new-adult

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

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Apr 22, 2017 Emma rated it it was amazing

Recently re-reading this book with a 9yo has been such a joy.

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Mar 01, 2018 Critterbee❇ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: f, library, atw, historical-fiction, pbt

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

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