Lucy M Montgomery (Does anyone still read her?)

[dweomeroflight]

Anne of Green Gables and the six sequels are books I always come back to every couple of years (I don't count the short story collections as part of the sequence). I think that for the most part, though Lucy's descriptions got laid on rather thick (in a rather ironic parallel to Emily in Emily of New Moon) and she would have benefited from a

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[ragdoll]

I haven't re-read the books in a while (like 10-15 years) but I absolutely loved them as a young girl and then much later on. I had a boxed set of the first 3 books that were bought for me when we visited Prince Edward Island when I was about 8. I read those to death. Then I discovered the additional books after I'd graduated from university and devoured them as well as the Avonlea short stories. I loved (and still love) them.

I had no idea about the last book. Walter's death absolutely broke my heart when I read about it. I haven't read any of her poetry at all.

I was also a great fan of the Avonlea tv series that aired on Disney in the 90s in the US (a Canadian series loosely based on the Avonlea books and tied to the Anne films they'd done) starring a teenage Sarah Polley. Don't know if you've seen them, but you might enjoy them as long as you're not a total purist. :)

[the_silverdoe]

I've read 'Anne of Green Gables' a few years ago and absolutely loved the book: the setting, the writing (though I read a French translation), but most of all the characters.
To my shame, I've never tried to read the other books though, but this isn't the first time someone tells me how great they all are, so I'll add them to my reading list. :)