Anne of Green Gables
by L M Montgomery
fiction
copyright 1908
read in June 2022
rated 7/10: well worth reading
Well worth reading if you enjoy a sweet story of childhood in beautiful countryside of 1990s Canada. My wife says that it was a favourite book of her childhood.
Oh and yes, it's a "classic".
I enjoyed it :-)
Okay, Anne herself is an emotional roller-coaster. Sometimes she overplays it in order to get her own way. Sometimes intentionally, mostly not. Still... it's hard not to like her. Or at least to sympathise with her as her life goes up and down.
In one interpretation Anne is a very intelligent child growing up in a world of very average people. It's hard to fit in when you are so different. This is a standard problem for intelligent children.
Even more sympathetic than Anne, though, are her adoptive parents. They are not perfect. They are simple people. They would never deliberately hurt Anne. They do their best -- and their best turns out to be very good. Because they are such honest well-intentioned people.
The book includes a touch of real tragedy. Well signposted. Realistic. Still sad. Then life goes on. Sadder but making adjustments.
It's a book which is a pleasure to read. I would say "sweet" -- in a very positive sense.
The author wrote several more "Anne" books. I will not search them out, it's not at all my preferred style of book. But if one turns up, I will be quite happy to read it.
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