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Author Spotlight: L.M. Montgomery / OSWT: O Canada

Mar 26, 2008 07:01

My age registered in single digits when my mother handed me a copy of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. I immediately opened the book and read the first paragraph. I exclaimed, "It's all one run-on sentence!" I suppressed the urge to rewrite that paragraph and kept reading ( Read more... )

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Anne is not Scarlett taylormorris March 26 2008, 15:22:03 UTC

This book has been on my shelf since I was in college. For my 20th birthday, I told my dad I wanted the VHS (shut up, it was long ago) of Gone With the Wind. I swore that was all I wanted for all eternity. Instead, I got Anne of Green Gables the book. Words can not express the level of dumbfoundedness I experienced when I opened that package. I refused to read the book, decided to reread Gone With the Wind, and later bought my own dang GWTW movie (DVD, thank you very much). But, okay, perhaps you've inspired me to pull that book off the shelf, dust it off and give it a chance!

Re: Anne is not Scarlett slayground March 26 2008, 15:36:05 UTC

I am glad that this post inspired you to give Anne of Green Gables a chance. I hope you enjoy it!

Prince Edward Island anonymous March 26 2008, 17:18:45 UTC

(This is Sara, by the way... I can't figure out how to use OpenID). You should definitely visit PEI if you ever get the chance. I went when I was 14, and it really is as beautiful as the books make it sound (and the soil really is red)!

Re: Prince Edward Island slayground March 26 2008, 17:19:55 UTC

Hi Sara! How are you?
Someday... someday!

begliocchi March 26 2008, 17:26:46 UTC

Oh mercy. Get the Canadian bookseller going ( ... )

slayground March 26 2008, 17:32:22 UTC

Go Canada! :) Let me know if you post this at your blog and I'll add it to the round-up!

begliocchi March 26 2008, 17:49:32 UTC

It's up at my LJ (if that counts as a blog - everything but the book post is friends locked), feel free to link. =)

slayground March 26 2008, 21:21:39 UTC

YAY!

mimagirl March 26 2008, 18:31:25 UTC

I keep meaning to reread the Anne books!

slayground March 26 2008, 19:06:46 UTC

They never get old.

From a.fortis: mimagirl March 26 2008, 22:43:14 UTC

I need to re-read these, too...my reading list just keeps getting longer and longer! :)

Re: From a.fortis: slayground March 27 2008, 16:34:01 UTC

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slayground March 26 2008, 21:21:23 UTC

Thank you for the link. I hadn't heard of the Institute before. Oh my goodness - They give out an Avery Scholarship! How perfect!

Enjoy the reading and the re-reading.

I saw a few episodes of Road to Avonlea, and I think highly of Sarah Polley, but I did not watch that series regularly.