Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery · first published 1908
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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…- Creative and fun, but I didn't like the wrap-up and ending. * Project Hail Mary - Surprising fun! jazz hands * Old Man's War series (Scalzi) - First three were great, last three were so-so * Anne of Green Gables - My daughters loved this one. I just now got around to reading it and found it deeply touching AND amusing. I laughed aloud a lot! * Lord of the Rings - I re-read it once a year.
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗"Anne of Green Gables" and its sequels. I love the simple, every-day stories LM Montgomery writes and her philosophy of life that shines through. The first reminds me of the way I grew up and the second has often inspired…
on “Ask HN: What is your comfort book?” ↗Anne of Green Gables
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗My ex was really into her, but I never quite got the appeal. The character seemed to far-fetched to be relatable. Then I read Anne of Green Gables as an adult, and began to understand that there are harsh and endearing moments amongst the child-like chaos.
on “Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?” ↗…works to around the first world war. For example: - HG Wells (Died 1946, Life+70 in 2017), works like War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. - LM Montgomery (Died 1942, Life+70 in 2013), works like Anne of Green Gables -- In the US where publication + 90 years is in effect, her later works (after ~1925) are not yet in the public domain there. With comic IPs, most are not yet in the public domain: - Superman (1938,…
on “What will enter the public domain in 2026?” ↗46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
ah yes, like all the other flash-in-the-pan teen novels: to kill a mockingbird, the hobbit, the catcher in the rye, the lord of the rings, fahrenheit 451, anne of green gables, the lord of the flies, flowers for algernon, dune, the call of the wild, treasure island, and the narnia series. Yes, I know many books in that category fade away, but only time will tell if hunger…
on “Forgotten Best Sellers” ↗The Great Tranformation by Karl Polanyi, wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer, and just finished Anne of Green Gables
on “Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading?” ↗…brochures. Anytime we stopped somewhere on a family trip, we'd load up on all the brochures of things to do in the area. My 9 year old is the oldest of the group, she's completed the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and the Little House Series each multiple times. Our 8 year old just finished reading the "Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" and just asked me for 100 feet of copper wire....our 6 year old wants to go to…
on “How I Taught My Kid to Read” ↗Are you rewarding them for the five-millionth book report on Anne of Green Gables? Or are you rewarding them for the learning process they went through that (almost incidentally) resulted in five-millionth book report on AoGG?
on “US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions” ↗Anne of Green Gables copyright is an interesting study in what happens here. There has been a recent tidal wave of "remixes" of the original work. TV shows, graphic novels, etc. My read: A lot of it is very good, very few…
on “Supreme Court Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Art Is Copyright Infringement” ↗Using texts upto 1913 includes works like The Wizard of Oz (1900, with 8 other books upto 1913), two of the Anne of Green Gables books (1908 and 1909), etc. All of which read modern. The Victorian era (1837-1901) covers works from Charles Dickens and the like which are still fairly modern. These would have been part of the initial…
on “History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts” ↗Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil. Bounced off a few Robert Macfarlane titles —just not for me — and also Anne of Green Gables w my kid
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗Yeah, Anne of Green Gables was probably a better example. :D
on “CBC asks for $400M in increased government funding to go ad-free” ↗Anne of Green Gables is huge in Japan.
on “A Dog of Flanders” ↗