Once upon a time when I was much younger I attempted to read Anne of Green Gables because a) it's deeply popular, and b) I loved Lucy Maud Montgomery's other books. But I failed miserably at getting through the first book because I COULD NOT HANDLE my embarrassment at watching Anne get into one scrape after another. So I came to the conclusion that the Anne books were forever lost to me.
But recentlyish I had a revelation at the hands of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
verity that I could just....skip the books in which Anne is a scrape-prone child, and pick the series up later. So I did! (I also skipped later books that looked like they would be largely about the scrapes Anne's children get into.)
It took me a bit of time to warm up to Anne; she's a little too serious-minded, dreamy, and romantic for me to ever feel like I got her. But I enjoyed her books and I'm glad to have been able to get around to reading the parts of this series I can read!
( Under the cut: Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, and Rilla of Ingleside )
But recentlyish I had a revelation at the hands of
verity that I could just....skip the books in which Anne is a scrape-prone child, and pick the series up later. So I did! (I also skipped later books that looked like they would be largely about the scrapes Anne's children get into.)It took me a bit of time to warm up to Anne; she's a little too serious-minded, dreamy, and romantic for me to ever feel like I got her. But I enjoyed her books and I'm glad to have been able to get around to reading the parts of this series I can read!
( Under the cut: Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, and Rilla of Ingleside )
