30 Days of Books! Day Five.
Day 05 - A book that makes you happy
When I was somewhere in the neighborhood of seven or eight years old, I went exploring. In the attic. It was a grand adventure, I tell you..
Actually I was searching for something to make a Halloween costume with, but I found a box of books from when my favorite cousin ever lived with us while she was in college. And inside the box was a very well worn set of Anne of Green Gables books. Reading the backs of all of them, and being a true rebel by nature, I chose to read the seventh in the series first, Rainbow Valley.
From GoodReads: Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when the strangest family moves into an old nearby mansion. The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls, with minister father but no mother -- and a runaway girl named Mary Vance. Soon the Meredith kids join Anne's children in their private hideout to carry out their plans to save Mary from the orphanage, to help the lonely minister find happiness, and to keep a pet rooster from the soup pot. There's always an adventure brewing in the sun-dappled world of Rainbow Valley.
Rainbow Valley is just a book that makes you feel good. It's a comfortable read, and I read it again last year, and it didn't feel like I was reading a kid's book. People complain because it's not very "Anne" - centered, and that it's more like a series of short stories combined, but I think that's what makes it unique. The kids sparkle with great personalities and each has a tale that gets woven into a bigger picture.
When I was somewhere in the neighborhood of seven or eight years old, I went exploring. In the attic. It was a grand adventure, I tell you..
Actually I was searching for something to make a Halloween costume with, but I found a box of books from when my favorite cousin ever lived with us while she was in college. And inside the box was a very well worn set of Anne of Green Gables books. Reading the backs of all of them, and being a true rebel by nature, I chose to read the seventh in the series first, Rainbow Valley.
From GoodReads: Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when the strangest family moves into an old nearby mansion. The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls, with minister father but no mother -- and a runaway girl named Mary Vance. Soon the Meredith kids join Anne's children in their private hideout to carry out their plans to save Mary from the orphanage, to help the lonely minister find happiness, and to keep a pet rooster from the soup pot. There's always an adventure brewing in the sun-dappled world of Rainbow Valley.
Rainbow Valley is just a book that makes you feel good. It's a comfortable read, and I read it again last year, and it didn't feel like I was reading a kid's book. People complain because it's not very "Anne" - centered, and that it's more like a series of short stories combined, but I think that's what makes it unique. The kids sparkle with great personalities and each has a tale that gets woven into a bigger picture.