Anne with an ‘e’ played a huge role in my childhood. I can’t remember when my mom first bought me Anne of Green Gables, but the rest of the series followed soon after. The first time I saw the movie, I was enthralled. The casting was perfect, and I was in love with Gilbert. The Emily trilogy was an exciting find as well, although not quite as impressionable. I always assumed I’d read everything by L.M. Montgomery, but then I found a review for The […]
Like three tumblersful of raspberry cordial. Okay, maybe just two.
Confession: I am an Anne of Green Gables nerd. As a kid, I re-read the entire series at least twice a year well into my young adulthood. I am fairly certain if The Chancellor and I were to take a pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, he’d have to Xanax me up, because I’d have a full-on, Kristen-Bell-meets-a-sloth panic attack at seeing the Cavendish farmhouse. I’m not even kidding. It’s really serious. So I was intrigued when yesknopemaybe posted a CBR review (happy Cannonball, by the […]
If Anne Shirley was a Teenager in 2015
CANNONBALL! It’s always a bit scary reading an adaptation or re-imagining of source material that’s important to you. I loooooooove the Anne of Green Gables series and have loved it ever since my grandparents gave me a box set when I was a little girl. There is serious magic in those books and characters. AoGG is for me what the Harry Potter series is to teenagers and twentysomethings today. So when I saw that Andi Teran had written a modern-day take on Anne and company, […]