Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) in Around the Year in 52 Books

Jan 25, 2018 Ann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: female-relationships, canada, country-small-town, friendship, k-6, young-adult, coming-of-age, edwardian, 1900s, orphans

Another reread of this childhood favorite, which remains as lovely and perfect as ever.

I will note that I didn't love the narration of the audiobook. I expected something more from Rachel McAdams, but the narration felt flat, like how I, not an actress, would read something myself. However, this flatness did work well to contrast Anne's dialogue, who was more exuberantly read, from the people around her. ...more

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Oct 09, 2016 Jesse rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2016-popsugar-reading-challenge

Having never actually read this classic before, I chose it (along with the recently written, and by a different author, Before Green Gables) for the category of "A book and its prequel" for the 2016 PopSugar reading challenge. And let me tell you, I loved Anne of Green Gables! Just like the first time I read Little Women (which was like 5 years ago), I realized just what I've deprives myself of all these years. Anne is such a delightful character, and I'm glad she's now a part of my life. We'll ...more

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Sep 10, 2016 Jason McKinney rated it liked it · review of another edition

3 1/2 stars.

After hearing my wife rave about this for years, I decided to take the plunge (and no, she didn't threaten to divorce me if I didn't). On the whole, I thought it was enjoyable, even if I'm not the demographic that it's aimed towards.

The writing gets a bit flowery at times and Montgomery certainly loves to describe the nature on Prince Edward Island (which can get a bit tiresome), but the characters are well drawn and the dialogue is so sharp that its tartness and sweetness hold up 1 ...more

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Sep 18, 2016 Sarah Johnson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens-chapter-books

I don't even know how many times I read this book when I was a kid because I loved it so much. It's so nice to know that it is just as wonderful reading it as an adult. Rereading it was like seeing a best friend again after being apart for many years. ...more

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May 02, 2015 Trish rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, young-adult, how-many-100-list, classics-c20, zsrc-2015-1-spring

I find myself wondering how have I never read this before. A good old fashioned growing up story.

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Jun 03, 2014 Ruthi rated it it was amazing

Shelves: my-favorites, audible-books-that-i-own, in-my-physical-library, the-world-sucks-these-are-a-escap

Had to revisit this once I saw that Rachel McAdams had done the Audible version :) Another good thing about audiobooks- I'm actually revisiting books I read over a decade ago and enjoying them again without feeling like it's a waste of time bc it doesn't take four days, usually, with an audiobook!

It was nice to go back to Green Gables, again.
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