Everyone in the book club finished and enjoyed this book, we found the characters and the place setting to be utterly charming and not at all annoying as some people seem to have. We felt that the place of Green Gables and Prince Edward Island are so beautifully described in the book that they fell like another character. You felt as though you could step in through the pages and you would know exactly what everything looked like, and even in some cases smelt like! The way that Anne looked at things and used metaphor to describe them made it much more easy for us as readers to visualise things rather than a long list of descriptions.
We felt that Anne herself was a very capable and intelligent young girl who just happened to have grown up in a bad environment. Given her formative years weren't spent in the best place she seems very confident and self-sufficient, quite a lovely girl in fact. She does have a tendency to become distracted and may over-react to some situations but she never means anything but the best for everyone she meets. This is why we were a little confused as to why she hated Gilbert for so long. Was it because she felt a spark towards him and didn't know what to do about it? Or did she really just hate having been called carrots?
Anne really was someone who looked for the good in everyone and everything. Even when bad things happened she took a few minutes to herself and came out with a positive from it. We thought more people should be like her, but it such a difficult thing to do. Looking at the world through Anne's eyes made us all think about the world a little differently, and that's not a bad thing.
Overall we gave this book 9 out of 10.
We felt that Anne herself was a very capable and intelligent young girl who just happened to have grown up in a bad environment. Given her formative years weren't spent in the best place she seems very confident and self-sufficient, quite a lovely girl in fact. She does have a tendency to become distracted and may over-react to some situations but she never means anything but the best for everyone she meets. This is why we were a little confused as to why she hated Gilbert for so long. Was it because she felt a spark towards him and didn't know what to do about it? Or did she really just hate having been called carrots?
Anne really was someone who looked for the good in everyone and everything. Even when bad things happened she took a few minutes to herself and came out with a positive from it. We thought more people should be like her, but it such a difficult thing to do. Looking at the world through Anne's eyes made us all think about the world a little differently, and that's not a bad thing.
Overall we gave this book 9 out of 10.
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