Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery, is about an orphan girl named Anne Shirley who is adopted by siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. When she arrives in the village of Avonlea, she turns it upside down with her vivid imagination and knack for getting into scrapes. Throughout the book, Anne meets her best friend, Diana Barry, the gossiping old neighbor, Mrs. Lynde, and the mischievous Gilbert Blythe. Anne of Green Gables takes place in a fictional town called Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in Canada. In real life, Avonlea is actually Cavendish, P. E. I., where the author, L. M. Montgomery, grew up. Green Gables, the house that Anne comes to live in, is actually Montgomery's cousin's house, and still exists today as a museum dedicated to the book series (It is one of my dreams to go see this place and all the things that are described in the book!)
This is my favorite book, as I have already mentioned! I just love the character of Anne. Her imagination inspires me so much to enjoy the little things and the beauty of nature. I love the story as well. The situations that Anne manages to get into are pretty funny! There are also many quotes that I agree with. Here are a few that apply to my life, at least:
"Isn't it nice that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
"I couldn't live where there were no trees -- something vital in me would starve."
Pretty much all of those are very true for me, especially the last one. In fact, once I tried the advice of making up my mind firmly to enjoy the dentist...as much as I could. Turns out, that day they decided to play Disney music at the dentist (and I loooooooove Disney,) so even if the cleaning was disagreeable, I sang every word of the songs while I waited. And I didn't care if the little kids saw a big kid like me nailing every word to "You're Welcome" from Moana!😜
In conclusion, I wouldn't recommend Anne of Green Gables to anyone who thrives on suspense and thrill. I've recommended this book to a few people who didn't like reading as much as I did, and they thought it was boring (at the time, my brain couldn't compute this.) So I would recommend this to someone who loves reading as much as I do, or who love beautiful images rather than thrills and chills.
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