Chapter Fifty-One: Anne of Green Gables

I love these books!  Anne of Green Gables is the first in this delightful series of eight and the best known of them, and I really enjoyed all of them.  I haven't read any of them in a while, and it was so much fun to re-read them (and I think read number 8 and maybe 7 for the first time).  Anne is a delightful and spunky heroine, and when the focus shifts from her to her children in the last three books of the series, they prove to be more interesting than I thought they would be, although I can never love them quite as much as I love Anne.  Additionally, Prince Edward Island, Canada, provides a glorious setting for these books: pastoral, idyllic, charming.  I often laughed aloud while reading these books (sometimes I was laughing at the floweriness of the prose, I'll admit, rather than at the events of the story), which to me is the mark of a good read.