Lucy Maud Montgomery - have you read?

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Do you like L. M. Montgomery's novels? It's a question rather for females When I was a child and later in my early teens my mother used to buy me books of this author. I still have all of them on the shelf - I completed almost all of them.

My favourite ones are the novels about Emily from New Moon even though I find funny some things about them. Emily was so subtle - well, I don't say it's not good, I loathe all those spoilt, vulgar teens from modern books for teenagers - but even despite having VERY vivid imagination I can't imagine this subtle, virginal young lady doing something more with Teddy or Dean than only talking to them about poetry of beauty of nature.

I don't like also the fact that the teenagers from The Story Girl and The Golden Road were presented like couple years younger kids, they seemed to be so naive and immature, like when they were so afraid of the Doomsday or believed that the artist who painted God had really seen Him I realize it was in 19th century but I am convulsed with laughter thinking about some of their adventures

Have you read Montgomery's diaries? I read only two first volumes because the later ones (written when she was already mature woman, a wife and mother) weren't published in Poland. Does somebody know where I could find them in the Internet (if they are there as e-books)?

Well... I'm digging this thread out after all those months Has someone else read any books of that author since that time?

I read Anne of Green Gables when I was a kid, and I vaguely remember my sisters watching the PBS cartoon based on it. I don't think I'd like it if I went back and read it, though.

Does anyone own L. M. Montgomery’s journals e-books (but only those beyond 1910)? Or Mary Rubio’s Montgomery’s new biography?

I've adored Anne of Green Gables ever sinceI read it at age 10. I tried to read the rest of the 'Anne' series but none held my interest the way the first one did (I think becasue Anne grows up and becomes a little less spontaneous).

I saw a film based on the book (3 hours, very well done) but didn't know there wasa cartoon made. Was it just based on Green Gables or other books as well?

Oh, there are loads of cartoons about Anne (more or less close to the Green Gables’ original) but the only one I ever watched was: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078560/

Are you referring to my post about the TV series? It wasn’t a cartoon though, I was talking about “Road to Avonlea” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098900/ It’s not about the Green Gables (although Marilla and Mrs. Lind appear in there), the series is about Sarah Stanley (the character of “The Golden Road” and the other novel the name of which I can’t recall).

I like Anne, Emily, Valancy and the others. The only chick-lit I like...But you have to admit, it's quality stuff.

I loved "Anne of Green Gables", and yes, I remember seeing the TV movies and PBS cartoon, too.

Lucy was too tied by social conventions, don’t you think? I read her diaries (up until like 1910 because the whole rest of her journals wasn’t published in here) and although in the beginning she was such a cheerful, carefree girl, later on in her life she got too sensitive, she was permanently in a depressed mood. She treated other people’s opinions about what she should do too seriously while she should have taken care only of her own life, like when she sacrificed herself to look after her grandmother, wasting her life on a small farm in a village, deprived of any entertainment.

In Montgomery’s novels’ translations into our language many, many names were simply changed – not adapted to the language in terms of spelling for example but changed, like Mrs. Rachel Lind suddenly became Mrs. Malgorzata Lind (Malgorzata is our version of your Margaret) or Valancy is named Joanna in here. Davey and Dora are in turn Tadzio (short for our version of Thaddeus) and Tola.

I've read all the Anne books, I think, and I remember reading a few Emily books. That said, while they were good reads, they are not my favorites. I like some poetry but I never could quite relate to adoring it as she and many of her characters did. I favor Jane Austen myself. There's a cynical soul behind what my husband regards as effeminate literature, or so I perceive in a Jane Austen story.

"Thank you for my share of the favour," said Elizabeth; "but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands."

I have all of her books my favourites are the "Anne" books they were great I have the video of "Anne of green gables" the 1985 version it looked like a nice community they were living in.

I read the second part of the 1st journal of her "Selected Journals" recently - here, in my country, only the first one was published; divided into two volumes. It was just as good as the first one, although I don't particularly enjoyed the fact that between the entries there were such huge time gaps, even ones that covered several months.