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title: "Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery"
description: "Summary: Anne, an orphan, is adopted and becomes a beloved family member. But there are SOOOOO many long descriptive passages that make it a less-than-great read-aloud. I am not great about reading to..."
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date: 2023-08-24
modified: 2023-08-24
author: "Adam Shields"
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# Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

[![anne of green gables cover image](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image-8-188x300.jpeg)](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B53ZGL57/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0B53ZGL57&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2)**Summary: Anne, an orphan, is adopted and becomes a beloved family member. But there are SOOOOO many long descriptive passages that make it a less-than-great read-aloud.**

I am not great about reading to my kids, but we do tend always to have a book that we are slowly working through. And this one was very slow. I picked it primarily because I knew there were several TV and film adaptations, and that has previously been a motivator to keep reading.

I read at least this first book of the series as a teen, but I really did not remember it beyond the broad outline of the story. I think I probably remember more from the TV adaptations than the book. I wanted to read an old book in part because I knew the vocabulary would be more of a challenge, and I wanted to introduce my kids to vocabulary they would not get with more recent books. And I got the vocabulary. The annotated edition is helpful both because I was reading on Kindle, which has a built-in dictionary, but also because the annotations helped beyond the dictionary.

If it were just unfamiliar words, that would have been fine. But what I did not remember was the pages of descriptions and the super long run-on sentences within those pages of descriptions. There were many examples of sentences that were several lines long. And paragraphs that were more than a page long. This is something that when I am reading myself, I do not notice, but when reading out loud, it is very noticeable.

I think my kids may have been a hair on the young side (8 and 9), but they did not want to give up on the story even when I was tired of it. We have not started the Netflix series yet because we are almost done with the current series we watch as a family. But that will be the next thing we pick up. I do not think we read any more books in the series, but I may read them myself; I am pretty sure I did not read them previously.

My plan is to pick up A Wrinkle in Time for our next read-aloud.

**Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Purchase Links: [Annotated Paperback](https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Green-Gables-Annotated-Readers/dp/1957362049/), [Annotated Kindle Edition we read](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B53ZGL57), [Rachel McAdams narrated audiobook](https://www.audible.com/pd/Anne-of-Green-Gables-Audiobook/B01KGL13FI), [Full 73-hour series audiobook](https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Anne-of-Green-Gables-Collection-Audiobook/1974921832)**