The books on the shelf are worn and thumbed through. I can’t say how many times I’ve read them or how many times I’ve watched the movies. It’s not an obsession, but more like an old friend that I have to see every once in a great while. I don’t even remember enjoying the books half as much as I do now back when I first read them. Something about growing up made me understand them more.
Anne of Green Gables has been a dear old friend.
Don’t you love finding books that grow with you? Instead of leaving them in the past with your childhood.
I don’t know who hasn’t read Anne of Green Gables and not liked it, but I tend to take things to extremes and dwell in them for a time before dropping them and never thinking about them again. To say the least, my obsessions don’t really go away, but rather resurface once in a while. I get all sentimental about them to be honest. Especially this one.
But I won’t cry! I think I’ve gotten sentimental enough on this dear old WordPress. It’s time to lighten the mood a little!
So why should everyone love Anne of Green Gables?
Anne of course! Her odd little ways, her big words, and oh so many quotable quotes. But really, all credit must go to the writer L.M. Montgomery. I find it amazing that one can create an entire world of characters and places and events all in their imagination and put it down onto paper. I have a good imagination, but words…oh my! I have lost count of how many times I decided to become a novelist and write a book and then give up after a couple pages because it no longer made sense anymore…or it does make sense, but not to anyone else.
It’s hard writing a story, especially when you want to get to all the exciting parts. Like when the boy says he loves the girl, or the hero of the story finally becomes the hero. So is life I suppose…you have to get through all the boring parts before you get to the exciting parts because the exciting parts wont be exciting if you don’t to go through some sort of trial in order to get to them.
Hmm…where was I?
Oh yes, Anne with an E.
And then there is Gilbert.
Forget Darcy.
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.” – Anne of Avonlea
So poetic *sigh*
I could quote these books to death…but I won’t. Maybe I’ve made you want to pick them up again and thumb through them like I do on occasion. Maybe you haven’t read them…and I have to say, I envy you. Being able to read a book for the first time is something you can’t do again.
So here is a fanvid that I’m in love with on the two movies that I’ve watched oh so many times (and yes, fanvids are another obsession of mine, but more on that later…or never).
My Awkward Little Corner 