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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. Welcome to Fortress Fiction

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Episode 10. Join me as I talk about Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. This book

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was originally published in 1908, and here's the synopsis. Orphan Anne Shirley goes to

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live with elderly siblings on Prince Edward Island. And first of all, the big question,

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does this book belong in a place of honor in the fortress fiction? The answer is an absolute

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unequivocal yes. This is a fantastic book. It's written well. It's not a moralistic book,

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but it's a very positive book, very... I don't know, it teaches interesting valuable lessons

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through narrative, and the focus seems to be the narrative and the story and this girl's

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journey in Anne Shirley, and it's all very interesting. So it was a great book, held

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my attention the entire time. I think it's 11 or 12 hours, maybe it's supposed to be

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like nine hours long. And it was a great book. I absolutely loved it. It was wonderful, fantastic.

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I suggest everybody read it. So now that we're beyond that, if you wanted to read it, how

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would you read it? You can get it for free either from a library or through LibriVox,

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which is an audio book platform where people record public domain books and they're posted

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there. Sometimes they're multicast member dramatizations. Sometimes it's just the book

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being read by a single narrator. Sometimes it's the book being read by multiple narrators,

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a narrator per chapter. It depends on the project, the book, how popular it is, whatever.

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So yeah, you can listen to that on there for free. You can buy it wherever fine books are

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sold. You can get an audio book version of it from Kobo or Audible. Audible, I actually,

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as part of my membership, I was able to get a free listen. It's included in the Audible

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library at whatever level I'm at. So I'm at like the base level. So that's been big, but

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I've been a member of Audible for a long time, so I might be grandfathered in. I don't know,

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you got to check for yourself, but definitely you can get it somewhere else for free or

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inexpensive. So anyway, that's where you can read the book, how you can read or listen

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to the book. And now I'm going to go ahead and just share a lot more of my thoughts about

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it. But in the very end, I'm going to talk about what other works you can read from LM

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Montgomery.

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So what's so good about Anne of Green Gables, which is the title of the first book, it's

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also the book, it's the title of the nine book series, I would say, or maybe the titles

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Anne of Avonlea, I think that's how you say that. I'm not sure. Not Canadian, sorry. So

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I might not know. Anyway, what is the story about? Well, I would say it's firmly in the

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domestic drama genre. If that is in fact a genre, I got the term domestic drama from

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Little Women at the end of book one, which is named for the four sisters that comes before

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book two, which is called Good Wives originally before, which is combining to Little Women.

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I'm talking about a Marisa Alcott's story book. She uses the term domestic drama saying

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if this domestic drama, the first one with the four sisters names as the title is received

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well, then you can look forward to this story continuing in the next one. I don't know if

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she gives the name of the book or not, but that's what happens. So she makes, she uses

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that term domestic drama. I've never really heard that anywhere else before. So I don't

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know if that's a thing, if that's a genre or if that's just how it was called by her

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at that time. And I don't know if anybody else uses that, but I think it makes sense

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to use that. And I'm adopting that term for a certain sub genre of books. That is a domestic

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drama and it's fantastic. I would say that I hope I didn't say this already because I

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paused in between. I would say that Anne is definitely a domestic drama as well. And I

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would say that it's as good as if not better than Little Women, but they really are two

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different books. They're two different types of stories. It's almost like, and I don't

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know. Well, I think by the way, I had this set up. This book, Anne of Green Gables came

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out some years after Little Women, but I don't know how many years after it came out. So

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that's a little bit of a problem. I can double check on them. Let me see. Let me live go

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on and look this up real quick. Little Women. If I look up Little Women, it should pop up

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unless I get the anime and the 27 film adaptations. So 1868 and 1869 is when it was published

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in two volumes, 1868, 1869. So one year and then the next. And this was in 1908. So it's

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very possible that Montgomery grew up reading Little Women and she decided to do something

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of her own. So without spoiling, hold on, does this work? I don't want to give away

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all the details of the book because here's the thing. It's not an Epic Quest book. It's

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not a fantasy book. It's not a book where big important things happen. It's a book about

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life. It's about how everyday life and an everyday ordinary girl even with an extraordinary

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imagination can make life beautiful, can choose to see the beauty in life and to live a good,

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happy, fulfilling life, I guess. So I'm trying not to spoil the book, but I'll say this.

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And because they're so, they're distinct, they have their own identities, even though

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they're similar and there are parallels to them. I'll say this. In Anne of Green Gables,

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you get to see Anne at I think 12 or 13 and the book ends when she's maybe 18 at the most.

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I think she's actually 16, but I don't quite remember. It's a little fuzzy because time

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moves quickly at some point in the book. So Little Women, you see the March sisters from

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the time they're young. I'm going to say 10 is the median age of them. So that means there's

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an eight-year-old, well, there's a six-year-old, a nine-year-old, a 12-year-old, and a 15-year-old,

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and then time moves on for them. I think that's about right, I think. Anyway, so the March

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sisters, you get to see them from then until they're in their 30s, let's just say. So it's

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like a 20-year span. Anne of Green Gables, and that's in one book. It's two books, but

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it's one book. It tells the same story. So Anne of Green Gables is similar in that you

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get to see Anne from when she's little to when she's older. I said, but it stops at

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her mid-teens, let's call it, when she's a woman or maiden or however is the best way

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to phrase that. And then, I don't know, I suspect, then there's nine, there's eight

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more books. So they end up going along and telling, I assume, different stories about

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Anne as she's getting older and older and older. So this is if you took Little Women

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or you knew the story of Little Women, you liked it, but you said, I want to zoom in

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on one character and I want to zoom in on a much smaller part of her life and focus on

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that and tell that story there. That's effectively what Anne of Green Gables does. And it does

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it so beautifully. I don't really know what to say. I definitely don't want to get into

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details and I almost feel so this is interesting. Ronja, last week at Fortress of Striction,

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I talked about Ronja the Robber's Daughter and I talked about how Lindren sat in a fantasy

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world, a light fantasy world, and yet the lives of the children in it, Ronja and Berk,

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were mundane, basically. They had some small adventures, but it was a mundane life. They

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appreciated nature and they appreciated relationships with other people and the fantasy elements

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didn't really matter to them. And they didn't go on imagining things because they didn't

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need to imagine gray dwarves and merc trolls. That's the one I forgot last week. Merc trolls,

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that's what they are. Anyway, they didn't talk about those things. They didn't imagine

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those things and think about those things because they were living in that fantasy world

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with harpies that will tear you to shreds and carry you off to their cave to be your

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slave till you die. So it was very light fantasy or it was light fantasy and the kids had no

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want or desire to do that. They wanted to live real lives and do real things that you

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have to do to survive and whatnot. And they ended up doing that. And that is, especially

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for us living today and with all the modern comforts that we have, that's a fantasy of

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its own. It's an escapist fantasy because it's in such a different world. I also have

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the opinion that period pieces are a little bit of fantasy because I think the fantasy

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fan who loves the world building will often get, they're getting something that they want

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out of that book, aside from the story. They're getting the setting. I believe people who

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enjoy period dramas also get this juicy setting that is exotic to them in those shows and

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in those movies and in those books. Downton Abbey, for example. Why do people love it?

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There's lots of reasons to like it a lot. It's a great story, I think. Some things in there

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that are objectionable, but definitely not for children. Whether or not it belongs to

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Forge of Fiction, I will not say for now, but I'm not going to movies and TV shows yet,

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so let's just keep it on books. I would say that there's an exoticism there because it's

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in the past and it's so faithfully told or shown, demonstrated, and it's just so foreign

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to us. That's why we like it. Ann lives in a very sad, dreary world as an orphan. She

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knows about both her parents. She knows about them dying when she was very young. She's

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grown up in these institutions and she has a natural… I'm not saying her imagination

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is solely a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that she was an orphan and being

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raised in these institutions, but I'm not not saying that. I'm saying I'm sure it

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helped her, but she's very imaginative and she's very interested in indulging her imaginations

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to the point where she's distracted from her ordinary life. I guess you could say if

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you wanted to really force me to do a masculine examination of this and say, what is going

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on here? Dissect it. I would say this first book in the series, this is my perception

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of it, is Ann learning to… she's learning to balance imagination with reality. Not that

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she's got a runaway imagination. She imagines the whole world like in Bridgette Arbithia

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where the kids imagine that they're in this fantasy world. She firmly knows that she's

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pretending. She firmly knows she's playing. She firmly indulges in the fact that she is

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fantasizing and imagining things to make these things better for herself because she's so

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lonesome and has this longing for beauty and has this longing for things to be a certain

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way and when they're not that way, she makes them that way, but because she starts off

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as a powerless child, her only mechanism, her only way to do that is by imagining. I

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really love how the book isn't talking down to her or misrepresenting anything. It's

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just very honest that this is who she is, this is what she does and it's negative in

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some ways because it causes her distraction, but it also equips her to cope with things

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and deal with certain things in a way where she's able to apply that imagination and

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that creativity to real things and when she does that, she reaps the benefit from that.

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She knows loss and sorrow and pain, not just of being an orphan, but throughout her life,

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throughout the story, bad things happen to her and she makes mistakes, but they're innocent

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childish mistakes probably encouraged by and increased by the fact that she's so indulgent

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in her imaginings and her imagination, but her imagination also opens her up to good

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things and to connecting with other kids and having these positive relationships and she's

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not unsocial or antisocial, she's not a loner by choice. She has been disconnected from

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these things and she hasn't been properly brought up to paraphrase Matthew Cuthby. I

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know she's finding her way into a family, obviously by being adopted and into a community

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and I don't know, it's a coming of age story I guess because she learns to let go of some

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of her childish imaginings and deal with hard things in the real world and she's in school

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and there's some stuff that goes on there and I don't know, it's a really interesting

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story. It's dramatic. I felt for Ann, I laughed at her sometimes when she's being super dramatic,

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but I also felt a little bit of pain for her as well because I was a kid too and I wasn't

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a little girl, but I was a little boy and I know what it's like to be that age and to

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feel your feelings are so important and I see it with my kids now too, how the littlest

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things will be this huge deal to them and then five minutes later they're fine. It's

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funny, I was talking to my daughter about this and she said, oh, so this is the girl

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version of Sam is, he doesn't call himself Sam, Samuel Clemens, he calls himself Mark

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Twain, Mark Twain's Huckaberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn is lighter. So she said,

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oh, so it's like the girl version of Tom Sawyer and I said, yeah, but you know, and therefore

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it's better in some ways. It's definitely more wholesome, but it's very much like that.

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It gives you a very accurate picture, I think, of what a girl's life would have been like

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at that time and a little bit of a boy's life too because there's boy characters that she

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interacts with, actually one really, which she heavily interacts with and there are a

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few others, but there's no romance in here even though the girls talk about lovers and

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talk about suitors and there's the schoolmaster is interested in the 16 year old girl and

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I don't know if they end up getting married or not, I think I blanked out on the detail,

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but it kind of feels like they went off and got married with each other and I don't know

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if the guy could have been like 20 or 22 from college and at that time, you know, this was

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in the mid 1800s or whatever, that would have been perfectly socially acceptable, but it

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just still feels pretty weird. So yeah, like there's not really romance in it, it's like

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family life and it's like about Anne learning to like use her imagination to fuel her ambition

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and I don't know, like also learning to be content in life because she wants all these

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grand things and then she ends up accomplishing these great things, these great feats for

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her at her level, at her station, where she is and in the context she's in and she's very

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happy with that, very content to do the work and to live life and by the end, she makes

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some decisions to that kind of compromise what her trajectory was because she makes

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a choice that forever kind of cements who she is and where she is and like drastically

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changes the trajectory of what the story could have been or will be and it's really interesting.

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It's just like, like it's an inspiring book, it's a beautiful book, it's beautifully written,

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Anne's imaginings are really great, it's a very dialogue heavy, she's so verbose, there

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will be times when Anne is talking for, and I'm listening, I'm thinking, is she still

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talking, like is she just talking to Marilla, like who is she talking to, who is she talking

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to and what's going on, because she just goes on and on and on and on and on, but it's like

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it's very realistic, it's very realistic and it feels very true to life and it feels like,

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like sorry, the author Montgomery, like captured real life and put it in this book and it's

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just beautiful, it's a beautiful encapsulation of what life is like for a child, for a family

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and like, I don't know, the fact that she ages over the book is interesting, is not

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drastically like, you know, she's not romantically involved yet, she's not going to have a suitor,

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she's not going to be getting married or anything like that, she rejects those things at this

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point and even has possibilities because they're just not, it's just so interesting.

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She thinks she's ugly, she has red hair and freckles, she thinks that makes her hideous,

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although she likes the shape of her nose and she's skinny and upset that she's not fat

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and doesn't have dimples on her elbows and things like that and I know there's just like

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funny, interesting anthropological, anthropological, yeah, and like cultural aspects that are preserved

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in this book that you get to hear because it was written at a time and honestly at the

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time by the author and I don't know, it's just like, I honestly, here's the thing I

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was going to say, I was edging towards the night, veered off into a weird place, I identified

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with Anne in some ways because there's things to identify with her about and I think, I

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fight with Matthew and Marilla too because there's things to identify with them about,

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like it's just a very good book, it has great characters, Anne definitely steals the show,

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she is the main character and she gets the most focus, she gets the most dialogue, but

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her world, I don't know, her world is our world and her world is beautiful and so is

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our world and the book helps you to see that if you're not seeing it right now, it helps

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to open your eyes and look beyond the page, look beyond the book, look beyond wherever

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you are now and see that yeah, we do live in a beautiful world and there are very good

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things here and I know it's just like encouraging and inspiring, so I would say this is definitely

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deserving of a place of glory in the fortress fiction, it's definitely part of the fortress

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fiction, part of the foundation, it's a good strong book and I think it's beautiful, would

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boys enjoy it?

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I don't know, give them a chance, maybe they will, it's a very girl book, Girls I think

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is definitely important for girls to read, great thing for a father to read to his daughters,

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it's what it would be, part of the whole family if possible, that'd be even better, it's a

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fantastic book and I don't have much else to say about it, I'm going to tell you about

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Montgomery's other works, you can find, I think you can find the books also, I forgot

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to mention this is where you can buy at the L.M. Montgomery Institute, so if you go to

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lmmontgomery.ca because they're from Canada, you can find the website that has a bunch

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of information and resources, from the wiki I pulled this directly, there are nine books

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in the Anna Brink Able series, I won't read you all their titles but they came out, well

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I'm a little confused by this but, they didn't come out super regularly, whoa, ok, 1908,

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1909, 1915, 1936, that must have been like a reissue or something, or a misprint 1916

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maybe, 1917, 19, ok this is weird, 1939, 1919, 1921, I don't know, I don't know, interesting,

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and then there's like select stories, so anyway, then there's an Emily trilogy, Emily of the

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moon, Emily climbs, Emily's quest from the 1920s, then there's the Silver Brush series,

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which is 1933, 1935 it looks like, maybe, yeah I'm a little confused by some of these,

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and there's standalone novels as well that Montgomery wrote, Kilmany of the Orchard,

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The Blue Castle, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill, and there's a lot

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of short stories, oh, also one more thing, Montgomery must have been a very well read

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author because she was quoting stuff, Anne, and Anne is very well read because she's quoting

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all sorts of stuff from all sorts of literature, she's quoting stuff from Shakespeare, she's

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referencing all sorts of things, and I don't even know what some of them are, but I know

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like ah it's a reference to some book, and that's pretty cool because it like elevates

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this idea of bookishness, which I think is pretty nice, believe it or not.

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So anyway, that's all I have to say for now, I don't know yet what the next book I'll be

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covering is, but if you indulge me for a few moments, I will very quickly find out what

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the next book is, the next book is going to be Hatchet from 1987, and that's by Gary Paulson,

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so yeah, Hatchet, 1987, Gary Paulson, that's the next book that I will be reading, and

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I don't know if I'm looking forward to it or not, I don't really know about it, and

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I'm not going to read about it right now to you, you can look it up on your own.

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