Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)

Such a delightful story of what hope looks like in full bloom. The internal dialogues of the young orphan were simply entertaining and heartwarming. Fiddlesticks has returned to my vocabulary! Favorite quote from Anne "It's always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife."

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For some reason, I never read this book as a child. It would have been the perfect book for me, way back in the day, too. I used to have an imagination that would rival Anne's but, alas, I work in an accounting firm now. Any whimsy I had has been zapped.

Anne is an orphan who ends up with the Cuthberts, brother and sister who anticipated getting a boy to help them with the farm at Green Gables. Anne grew on the Cuthber...read more

What a beautiful, heart-breaking, and mostly joyful book. I will definitely reread this book for years to come. It starts off a bit silly because Anne is just 11 at the beginning of the book, but by the time it ends she's 16, and the pages can barely contain her amazing soul.