Rochelle Cherenfant Cherenfant itibaren Culver, Minnesota 55779, Amerika Syarikat
** spoiler alert ** 2010 bookcrossing review: Horay, I have finally finished this book!!! I have been reading it for quite a few weeks now, whilst on and off reading several other books at the same time. It's funny how these things don't seem to be quite as you remember. This wasn't the most gripping of books, and at times was a bit inoffensively drivly. Also maybe because it was a bit of a string of unconnected episodes of little magnitude from Anne's early childhood, it's hard to keep your attention up. It got better towards the end, as she got a bit older and a plot started to build when she was off to college and you're starting to wonder how the plot of her life is going to continue. Some parts are very obvious, both because I've read these before, seen the series, have the other books so the photos and blurbs are a bit of a giveaway; and also because it is just plain obvious with issues such as Gilbert, the boy she refuses to speak to until the end of this book and is her main competitor for academic success. So, for the unacquainted, this is the first in the Anne books, about how orphan girl Anne comes to live at Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew (brother and sister) on an island in Canada at the turn of the century (1800s to 1900s). And although a lot of it is a child of its time, with attitudes, fashions, lifestyles having changed a lot; a lot of the gossipy neighbours, childhood friends, games and carryings on are still just the same. I suppose its a look back at a kind of more innocent, wholesome kind of childhood.