Hey booklovers! What have you been reading lately?
This time I want to talk to you about Anne of Green Gables, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and first published in 1908. This is the first of an eight-book saga.
Montgomery tells us the story in which Marilla and Matthew Cuhtbert, two unmarried siblings in their 60s who live together in Green Gables, a farm located in a town called Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt an orphan boy to help them with the tasks involved in maintaining a farm. However, due to a mistake, they end up sending them an 11-year-old girl named Anne, who is super smart, creative, has a very fertile imagination and is quite eloquent (perhaps too eloquent, according to Marilla), who doesn't like her name, her freckles or her red hair. Source of image
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive...it's such an interesting world.
Throughout the book, the author tells us about Anne's adventures in Green Gables with her new family and how Marilla and Matthew's (especially Marilla's) vision of her is evolving, just as it did at school with her friends. We also have the opportunity to accompany Anne throughout her growth and the changes she goes through during part of her childhood and adolescence, especially on an intellectual level, going from being a rebellious, impulsive girl with an untamed spirit to being a successful and responsible young woman, without abandoning her most creative side. Source of image
Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.
If you like this book, I cannot but recommend the Netflix series inspired by it: Anne with an E, which is an absolute work of art for the eyes and, in particular, one of the best series I have watched in my life, both for the aesthetics of the visual effects and landscapes, and for the dialogues.
I've made it a goal to read all the books in the saga throughout the year... I'll let you know how that goes, hehe.
