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October Book Discussion: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

CaissaCaissa Shipmate
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I have a confession to make: I have never read Anne of Green Gables. I have never watched an episode of an Anne TV series and I have never watched an Anne movie. I never visited an Anne tourist location nor seen.

Despite living in New Brunswick (attached to PEI by a fixed link), having a sister who is an Anne fanatic and knowing an actor from some Anne movie(s) (Genevieve Appleton).

About a year ago, I found a century old edition of Anne of Green Gables. It ahs been sitting in my to be read piles. I though facilitating a discussion of Anne on the Ship would be exactly the reason I needed to read it. Whether it is your first time reading it or your fifty-first, please, join me in reading the Maritime Canada classic.

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  • Celtic KnotweedCeltic Knotweed Shipmate
    I know I have a copy, pretty sure it's here. Failing that I saw a stack with several Anne books in this afternoon in the parental attics, so can go collect next week.
  • TrudyTrudy Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I will reread if I get a chance but will join in the discussion even if I don't, since in my earlier years I reread this book almost often enough to commit it to memory.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Oo, yes, I'm in for this one. *takes book off shelf and heads for bed*
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    I've read this book loads of times and its one of my all time favourite comfort reads so I'll be joining in.
  • AravisAravis Shipmate
    I reread it recently after a certain controversial remake on Netflix, which will probably come up in discussion!
  • MiliMili Shipmate
    This is a comfort read for me too. I started reading yesterday and already read 9 chapters. I also like the 1980s TV adaption, but not the new one which I only watched a few episodes of.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I saw the 1970s BBC version, which I loved, and which seems to have been lost (the BBC used to wipe the tapes of a lot of series).
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    There is a Japanese anime from the 1970s and also another that came out this year based on the book. The book in translation is apparently quite popular in Japan.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Halfway through my first ever reading of it ( at almost 62) and loving it. Coincidentally, I am reading another book with an 11 year old female protagonist, Western Lane by Chetna Maroo. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/reading-guide-western-lane-by-chetna-maroo
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Caissa wrote: »
    Coincidentally, I am reading another book with an 11 year old female protagonist
    Is the protagonist of Anne of Green Gables the 11 year old?
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Yes. She is 11 when the book begins.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I've read this a few times, and I enjoyed the TV adaptation with Megan Follows, and I also really liked the recent Netflix version, Anne With an E, which I felt explored important emotional aspects of the story, though I didn't watch the entire series.

    By the way, if anyone doesn't have the book, you can get a ebook version free from Project Gutenberg.

    I see from googling that there was also a TV adaptation in 2016, with Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert (he's the only actor in it that I've heard of).
  • TrudyTrudy Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    edited October 7
    Caissa wrote: »
    Yes. She is 11 when the book begins.

    And 15 or 16 when it ends, I believe --
    ready, along with several of her classmates, to begin a teacher career!

  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    She just turned 13 where I am in the book.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Caissa wrote: »
    Yes. She is 11 when the book begins.
    That's not what I meant, but I'll pick it up when we start the discussion.
  • Cheery GardenerCheery Gardener Shipmate
    Thanks foe the Project Gutenburg link, I'd given my copy to my daughter and it is in a box, somewhere!!!
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Now I understand, Dafyd. Maybe an argument can (and has been) made for someone else being the protagonist.
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