What a delightful read. I had watched the movies, but had
skipped the books. I will definitely
come back to this book just to enjoy the ride of reading through the sentences
and getting my eyes refreshed to appreciate nature, and beauty and life with al
that comes with it. I can’t wait to get to the second one in the series and to
read it with my daughter.
I think this is a great character-building story in so, so
many ways. One I’d like to highlight is the great illustration of “Beauty being
on the eye of the beholder”. We all need a little more “Scope for imagination”
to color our everyday realities and grow in contentment and gratefulness. I
think this book is a good place to stir some of that scope. I totally recommend
it for women of all ages. These are a couple of my favorites lines I wish not
to forget:
“Wouldn’t you just
love to be rich, girls?”…”We are rich,” said Anne staunchly. “Why, we have 16
years to our credit, and we are happy as queens, and we’ve all got
imaginations, more or less. Look at the
sea, girls -all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if
we had millions of dollars and ropes and diamonds…”Well, I don’t want to be
anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,” declared
Anne. “I’m quite content to be Anne of
Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.
I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame
the Pink Lady’s jewels.”
“Ever since I came to Green Gables, I’ve been making
mistakes, and each mistake has helped to cure me of some great
shortcoming. The affair of the amethyst
brooch cured me of meddling with things that didn’t belong to me. The haunted wood mistake cured me of letting
my imagination run away with me. The
liniment cake mistake cured me of carelessness in cooking. Dyeing my hair cured me of vanity..and
today’s mistake is going to cure me of being too romantic.”
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