If you read bookblogs, then you must have noticed that this year is the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, because quite a few bloggers have posted about this occasion.
I read this book and the rest of the series when I was young, courtesy of a family I spent so much time with that they used to call me their third daughter. They had at least a couple of books of the Anne of Avonlea series if not all (I don’t remember exactly), so that’s how I got to know Anne. I remembered I loved those books.
Somewhere on one of the blogs, someone mentioned that she had read Anne of Green Gables recently through daily email-installments at Daily Lit. Since then I have been toying with the idea of trying out this site by subscribing to Anne. Somehow I put it off. Until I just now came across this post at Kate’s Book Blog about Anne’s anniversary. I gave in and have just subscribed to read Anne of Green Gables. I opted for the daily rss-feeds, though. I will keep you posted on the new experience of reading a novel this way.
If you ever used Daily Lit, I’d love it if you shared your experience in a comment.
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I have ever-so-vague memories of reading Anne YEARS ago, but I have a feeling I won’t ever quite get around to re-reading. I hope you enjoy it!
Woot for Anne! I just reread Anne of the Island, and I’m going to reread Anne of Green Gables in June w/ Kate S’ group.
I haven’t used Daily Lit, because it doesn’t match w/ my reading style, but I’ll be curious to see if you enjoy it.
Eva, I have no idea if it will suit my reading style either. I have a feeling I won’t be able to sit it out (it’s 120 ‘episodes’) and I’ll want to read it faster than that. I have no idea how or where to get hold of a copy in Armenia, if there even _is_ a copy inside the country…
I’m going to reread it with the group, too. I usually reread the whole series every couple of years, anyhow. (have I mentioned I’m obsessed with L.M.Montgomery?) If you can’t find a copy, try reading it online, at your own speed, at Project Gutenberg.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/anne-table.html
Well, I went to check out Daily Lit, which somehow I’d never heard of, and it seems like a neat idea. I signed up for What Ho, Jeeves. A small daily dose of P.G. Wodehouse couldn’t possibly hurt, now, could it?
I loved Anne, too. If the Daily Lit format doesn’t work out for you, let me know. I’d be happy to send you a copy.
Thank you for the link, Melanie. That might have to come to my rescue at some point!
Julie, thank you so much for the offer!
I am curious how your daily dose of P.G. Wodehouse will work for you.
Okay, now it is a bit negative to sort of declare my Daily Lit experiment failed from the beginning. It is an experiment after all and I should approach it with an open mind, shouldn’t I? It’s just that Anne is exactly the kind of book to curl up on the couch with and spend the afternoon taken away to P.E.I. instead of reading it one bit at a time from a computer screen. On the other hand: it might just brighten my workday a bit. We’ll see!