If I love Little Women, What Katy Did, and Little House on The Prairie, will I love Anne of Green Gables?

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I hope so, because I just ordered them all from Amazon.

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That's just the same as Miss Lavendar though, PantryBoy! All I can think of is that it's meant to be elderly from Anne's viewpoint... although if she's in her early twenties in House of Dreams, it does seem a bit of a stretch for her to see 40s as elderly.

My favourite books ever! Just the best! Enjoy.

You're right Empress - I think the same may apply to Miss Cornelia - she is portrayed as being elderly and on the shelf when we meet her but she is still going strong 20 years later.

Mind you, when I read them as a child I didn't notice. It's only now that I am in my forties that I have picked up on it

The Dog Monday bit always makes me blubber too :(

Oh my gosh yes Dog Monday...

I love this thread

Kindred spirits!

What Katy Did!!! That was my favourite book as a child and the first book I reviewed for my English teacher. Ahhhh happy days! Thanks for the memory! I think I will re-read it.

Katy books? Free on kindle?! Thank you OnlyANinja

Ladies I have just finished rilla of ingleside and I LOVED it !

staggering, isn't it renaldo?

and i'd never heard of it until i looked up the series.

I know , I'm so pleased dd (12) is a reader, she , like myself, adores what Katy did too and tracked down the last 2 in the series for me as a gift

Oh renaldo, I'm so pleased. I just love it.

The Anne series is, to my mind a lot better than the Katy books. That said, i only read katy as an adult and i do think nostalgia plays a big part.

I prefer Anne too - I like the later Katys but the poem in the first book about the "School of Pain" and the implication that God sent her accident felt quite uncomfortable.

I just finished Kilmeny of the Orchard (LMM) yesterday. Felt nostalgic for Anne so started reading AoGG for the millionth time.

I read LM Montgomery's diaries once -- had to borrow them on inter-library loan. They're extraordinary - such awful things happened to her. And there are huge chunks of the Anne and the Emily books that are straight from her diaries - like the night that Anne thinks Gilbert is dying.

The only one I haven't read is Rilla of Ingleside -- off to buy it now!

I too loved those when I was growing up - also did anyone read the totally elitist but wonderful 'Mallory Towers' and 'St Clares' series. I had them all, wish I still did!

This is like going straight back to my childhood. I wish I'd known all you Anne fans then (though we're not the same age, so that wouldn't have worked - duh) because I don't think I had anyone to share my love of Anne with. And Gilbert Blythe! I adored Gilbert, both in the books and in the tv series with Kim Braden. (I think he was played by Christopher Blake.) There was also a film with Megan Fellowes in it, which was very good.

I haven't read Rilla of Ingleside - always meant to, somehow never got round to it, I think because Anne was my big heroine. I love the fact that someone said she often thinks about Ruby Gillis - how brilliant. I hadn't thought of Ruby Gillis for many a long year but she's come straight back!

The sad thing is that my DD just isn't a reader, and refuses to read Anne of Green Gables or indeed anything else. I had always looked forward to sharing my love of those books with her.

(Have only just discovered the Adult Fiction forum so am commenting like mad on everything.)

Yes, Rachel Lynd! Memory is a funny thing - when Frisky mentioned Ruby Gillis, the first thing that came into my head was "Ruby Gillis is dead!" - but no context whatsover.

I've just started on some of Louisa M Alcott's adult novels from Project Gutenberg.

Adventuresses, lost heirs, mistaken identities, unsuitable love affairs... High melodrama - just the sort of thing Jo March might have written for the papers and been embarrassed to have Prof Bhaer see!

Thanks only a ninja - I didn't know there was a 5th book!!!

Love Rilla of Ingleside because I find the whole war back drop interesting.

Alos I loved her Emily books when I was a teenager.