Title: Anne of Green Gables
Author: LM Montgomery
Obtained: Bought for Kindle
Why I read it: Recommended by Stacey
Genre: Children's classic
Very highly recommended
This has been on my list of books to get around to sooner or
later for what’s probably most of my life. It's always been one I though I'd read eventually, but never got round to it.However after Stacey from prettybooks recommended it to
me a few months ago by writing a fabulous guest post, I
grabbed it on Kindle. Then, as I do, I promptly forgot all about it. I was
reminded by her awesome My Indie Bookshop, which features 12 MG reads, 6 of
which I’ve already read and loved, that she has possibly the best taste in
books of anyone I’ve ever met, so I decided I should give it a try. I picked it
up at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon – and read it in pretty much one
sitting, stopping only to phone my sister to tell her “Read Anne of Green
Gables, don’t wait 32 years like I did!” and to tweet the best non-spoilery
sentences. (The joys of reading something out of copyright and where a lot of
people are already familiar with what you’re enjoying!)
And there were a LOT of ‘best’ sentences. I tweeted about 50
in all, and am still stunned by how well LM Montgomery’s prose reads over a
century after the book was first published. I was charmed and delighted by Anne
from one of her early lines ‘’Mrs Thomas told me that God made my hair red ON
PURPOSE, and I’ve never cared about Him since”, followed a bit later on by her
plaintive ‘’But it’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne
of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’’ Despite the old and rural setting which
may seem quaint to modern eyes, the characters and relationships are still vivid,
fresh and will strike a chord with any readers – particularly the love and the
sense of family that grows between Anne and the couple who take her in, Marilla
and Matthew. As well, Anne is a really wonderful central character – smart,
funny, and with a great gift for language and a brilliant imagination which
combine beautifully to allow her to give us some fabulous descriptions. 
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