Adulting/Dream Houses and Friendship: A review of Anne of Avonlea/the Island​

This is going to be a bit of a two in one kind of moment because the things I like and dislike about the Anne of Green Gables series stayed pretty strong throughout what I have so far read. So If you want to understand my feelings completely please check out my review “Scope for the Imagination” on Anne of Green Gables. Now you are probably thinking, what does she mean by two in one, well this will included some thoughts I had on Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. Rather than being a coherent review, which you can get with Anne of Green Gable, it is really going to be more a collection of particular points of contention and pleasure for me about.

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“Scope for the Imagination”: A Review of Anne of Green Gables

 As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthbert’s send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she’s not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, she’ll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. -Back of book

So, I am a little older than the average reader is the first time they read L.M. Montgomery and while it makes me more persnickety and wouldn’t say it took away any of my enjoyment of Anne of Green Gables. Because that’s right I enjoyed this book, but don’t get me wrong, like I said persnickety, and I had several issues with it as well. So great ready for the rollercoaster of emotions that are my feelings about books.

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