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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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Which books changed me as a reader?
One would like to answer that Tolstoy or Dostoevsky or Dickens or Lagerlöf or Proust determined my path as a lifelong reader. But I doubt that is the case for most of us. They are more often the effect of falling in love with an entirely different kind of book, a root cause leading all the way to tackling Ulysses.
One of the most inspiring books I read as a young girl was the seemingly endless series of Anne (with an "e"), who has all the odds against her, and yet grows up to be a loving, caring, independent and determined woman who consistently follows the path her heart and brain dictate to her, even or especially when it goes against the narrow conventions of her conservative environment. She doesn't win the hearts of her community by being sweet and subdued and grateful, though. She wins them by showing bravery and creativity!
She taught me to love the poem "The Lady of Shalott", and I learned it by heart with her! She taught me small town prejudice and the value of education to stand above pettiness. She taught me that love can exist in the strangest of places, and I think I loved her in the same way her shy stepfather Matthew did. She taught me that one can be wrong and still get it right.
Lucy Maud Montgomery taught me the power of storytelling to change the hearts of adolescents who are reading and living in the world of fiction. For I have grown up in rural Canada a century ago. Yes, I have, several times! Just like I grew up in an English boarding school with Sarah Crewe, admiring A Little Princess the most when she was starving.
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On either side the river lie
long fields of barley and of rye
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One would like to answer that Tolstoy or Dostoevsky or Dickens or Lagerlöf or Proust determined my path as a lifelong reader. But I doubt that is the case for most of us. They are more often the effect of falling in love with an entirely different kind of book, a root cause leading all the way to tackling Ulysses.
One of the most inspiring books I read as a young girl was the seemingly endless series of Anne (with an "e"), who has all the odds against her, and yet grows up to be a loving, caring, independent and determined woman who consistently follows the path her heart and brain dictate to her, even or especially when it goes against the narrow conventions of her conservative environment. She doesn't win the hearts of her community by being sweet and subdued and grateful, though. She wins them by showing bravery and creativity!
She taught me to love the poem "The Lady of Shalott", and I learned it by heart with her! She taught me small town prejudice and the value of education to stand above pettiness. She taught me that love can exist in the strangest of places, and I think I loved her in the same way her shy stepfather Matthew did. She taught me that one can be wrong and still get it right.
Lucy Maud Montgomery taught me the power of storytelling to change the hearts of adolescents who are reading and living in the world of fiction. For I have grown up in rural Canada a century ago. Yes, I have, several times! Just like I grew up in an English boarding school with Sarah Crewe, admiring A Little Princess the most when she was starving.
...
On either side the river lie
long fields of barley and of rye
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![Lisa](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1480492067p1/32532774.jpg)
Thanks, Inyourpants! The Famous Five are a fond memory for me as well.
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It is one of the most interesting things that we can do to revisit our young reading selves, I believe. We can see emotions that were long forgotten.
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I have no idea how I missed reading the Anne of Green Gables books. Perhaps it’s not too late to give them a try.
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It is never too late to discover a book, Renata! Thank you!
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Oh ja, höre ich auch gerne, Antje, und denke an Anne :-)
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Yes! And we all have different entry points into the world of reading.
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That line sums the value of reading up perfectly, Lisa. We get to roam the world and travel through time and carry other loads than our own — all through the mirror of the printed page, which is a much safer mirror than the one in Shallot!
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Oh yes! We'll have to remember to ask them! Right now, it always seems to be the last book they read :-)
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Yes, all of them, several times, in different languages :-)
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Yes, and the TV series is nice too. I loved it.
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Yes, all of them, several times, in different languages :-)"
Is it worth reading in German? I heard it was quite abridged.
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You are most welcome, Jaline!
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Oh, I love your picks too, Caterina!
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That line sums the value of reading up perfectly, Lisa. We get to roam the world and travel through time and carry other loads than our own — all ..."
It is what makes reading so much more valuable to me than all my other interests - through reading, I get to do what I CAN'T do.