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Anne of Green Gables
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January 15, 2017
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February 14, 2017
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International Group Read
Genre: Novel
Published: June 1908

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What Members Thought

Shirley (stampartiste)
This book has been on my classics TBR shelf for quite some time. I kept putting off reading it because I thought it would be a dull read. Was I ever wrong! I so thoroughly enjoyed this book and immersed myself in the simple world of Anne Shirley's life on Prince Edward Island, Canada in the early 1900s. It was a world where the charming, loving, optimistic orphaned Anne comes into the lives of two kind but stodgy old siblings and transforms their lives into unimagined joy. It was a world where h ...more
midnightfaerie
May 30, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: childrens, classics
For my 8-yr old son's school, every year he gets a list of like 20 books he can choose from, and has to read around 4-5 and do a book report on them. I usually make him read them all. (Except evil ones like Old Yeller) This year, I realized there were many I hadn't read, or hadn't read in a very long time, so I'm working my way through them so we can enjoy them together. After he's read them, we plan on having movie nights for those that have movies.

Meh. That's my feeling on this one. Meh. I ha
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adele
Aug 24, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Charming, silly, romantically whimsical, and all of the things I grew up loving in stories. Anne is exactly the heroine every little girl needs: bold, fiery, loyal, feminine, and a dreamer of big and little and silly and deep and absurd things - in all the best ways
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Jun 14, 2012 marked it as to-read
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May 28, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Jan 16, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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