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She was so good!!

I believe it was at a used book store!

Agreed!

That’s awesome that you and your family are so into Anne and the adaptations! The first three books of the series are Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. Chronicles of Avonlea is a short story collection that was published between books 2 and 3, and is not technically part of the Anne of Green Gables series. While it features Anne and some other Avonlea characters, it kind of stands alone. When you read the stories though, it seems to take place between books 2 and 3. It is also followed up by Further Chronicles of Avonlea which was published several years later. Road to Avonlea is a wonderful TV series created by Kevin Sullivan (as you know of course) which draws from these two short story collections. More than that though, the TV show draws from a different LM Montgomery duology, The Story Girl and its sequel, The Golden Road. These books take place in a different town than Avonlea and do not involve any of the Anne of Green Gables characters. These are the books that Sara, Felix, Felicity, and the rest of the King family come from. Kevin Sullivan brilliantly transplants them to Avonlea, incorporates their stories with the Chronicles stories, and adds plenty of his own creativity. I hope that makes sense, and that you have an amazing time in PEI!

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 we did Thank you. if you haven't do check out Emily of new Moon, channel up lifting faith & Family. it's Fully Filmed in PEI.

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 we did thank you. You do have to check out Emily of new Moon, and do a Review for that one.

Yay! So glad you like Betsy Tacy! I likely won't make videos again as I have moved on to different stages in my life, but I appreciate your interest in my channel 😊

Hi Janine, thanks for the comment! Unfortunately, I STILL have not done my Jane Austen trip. It is certainly not off the table, and I'm hoping to go soon. I will likely not do anymore with my channel as I have moved into some different phases of life, but I appreciate your interest!

Those are great choices!

I loved those books!

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed Anne's work :)

It's so good!

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 now finished! she's an incredible author. although i didn't read of any "door slam" in the book -- what was that about?

@@jackjones5920 Great! It was a later literary commentator's figure of speech :)

Thanks! I had a great time meeting you there too!

That's great! Glad you're enjoying it :)

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 i also have to tell you: i cross-referenced all the Brontë ranking videos on youtube and it turns out Tenant is the most popular of all by a comfortable margin!

@@jackjones5920 Really?? I would have assumed it would have been Jane Eyre or maybe Wuthering Heights. Anne is finally getting her due!

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 yeah you would've thought! Wuthering Heights is 2nd, and Jane Eyre 3rd (Shirley & Agnes Grey equal 4th) i finished Agnes Grey last night. loved it.

Besides the classic eight, Chronicles of Avonlea and Further Chronicles of Avonlea contain a little bit of Anne. There's also The Road to Yesterday and The Blythes Are Quoted. I hope you enjoy!

That's awesome that you're using it to help with your English! So glad you're an Anne fan. Are you wondering which one to read first? I would go with Anne of Avonlea since it comes before Anne of the Island in the series order and in when LM Montgomery wrote it ❤

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 Sooo... I'm currently reading Anne of the island but in portuguese, I'm still not sure which one to buy in english 😅

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 I'm thinking of finish reading them all and choose my favorite to read in english:) For now, my favorite is Anne of Avonlea😊

That's a great idea!

Thank-you! That's very interesting to hear about how Sabbath is within your faith ❤

Wow, that's super interesting to hear how her own dreams and desires for the ocean affected her writing.

Aw, thanks! I've been busy with school so haven't been making videos, but I appreciate the message!

Most people automatically read them in chronological order of Anne's life (that's how they're presented in the box sets), but I think the series is actually better in publication order. Since that's the way Montgomery originally planned them to be read, I feel that the momentum and flow is much stronger that way. So the order would be 12357846 😊

I'm glad you love Tenant too! Very true that Emily's writing is brilliant, and that she was bold and audacious in writing what she wanted to write instead of being confined by literary formulae. You're so right that it's good Heathcliff doesn't change for Cathy. In real life abusive people usually stay abusive (unless they have good therapy and a strong desire to change). I think it's actually dangerous and a disservice to the reader to write bad boys (aka abusive jerks) who then reform because of the heroine's magical love. Readers sometimes take this as something to be replicated in their lives. Thankfully, Heathcliff does not reform, and most people don't want to be with a man like that! You can tell I have strong feelings on this 😂

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 I totally get it. That's exactly why I argue against Jane Eyre being feminist and ahead it's time. Mr Rochester was manipulative and emotionally abusive. He strung along an innocent woman to make Jane jealous while he was simultaneously hiding his wife from her. And Jane didn't do anything progressive or feminist....she went back to her abuser after his wife had died so she could be with him properly by society's standards of her time. I argue the point with people that this is not healthy in any way and no matter how brilliant their speeches are to each other, in the end he had done nothing to change his ways or redeem himself. He sat at home until she came running back. And she was even wiling to go back not knowing the wife had died possibly to become his mistress. Put this in a modern day setting and we abhor men who behave in this way. But in a Victorian setting give him a romantic speech and he's the best thing on the planet. Why? I digress. I guess this is why I prefer Heathcliff and Cathy. They are both terrible and pretty much deserve each other and end up hurting each other. You can love them and interpret them as misunderstood or hate them and call them horrible people but they still get what they deserve in the end. Cathy screws herself over marrying a man she doesn't love for money and status and Heathcliff is forced to endure a lifetime without her. If you hate them you can laugh at the karma. If you love them you can be happy they finally get to haunt the moors together for eternity. It works either way. But as these novels go Tenant had the best story to teach a lesson about the nature of abusive relationships and how best to handle it (at least at that time in history) Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are great novels to read but not books or characters to model ones life after by any means. Sorry for the long reply. I'm very passionate about this as well lol.

@@bmonster Yes, yes, and yes to everything you said! If you haven't written a book of literary criticism on this topic yet, you totally should. I would definitely read that!

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 That is a great idea!!

I actually thought it wasn’t that true to the book. Laurie was so different!

Haha, we all have different opinions, that's for sure!

Absolutely! It’s all good!

They're all so good!

Haha, it's not my favourite, but it definitely has it strengths! Here's a video I did about all the different versions😁: th-cam.com/video/47Cuw30S7O4/w-d-xo.html

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 oh gosh I love it! Haha. But I did grow up on it.

Nice!

For sure :) I got it here: annestore.ca/products/anne-of-green-gables-edition?_pos=1&_sid=c5e66e0c7&_ss=r&variant=39512346165300

Thanks so much!

Thanks!

Oh yay, me too!

That's great!

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 yes! Also how is the second book, Anne of avonlea?

I really enjoy the second book even though a lot of people say the first is their favourite 😊

So glad you're enjoying it. I agree - Anne is totally underrated!

I have only come across two Anne Brontë poems, but in my esteem they blow out of the water the complete works of poems written by either of her two sisters. I am really trying to get Anne's complete works of poems. 7) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë 20) "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë 68) "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë 97) "Agnes Grey" by Anne Brontë 139) "The Professor” by Charlotte Brontë 163) "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë 1 73) "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

So glad you're getting into Victorian literature! I love that your sister likes Tenant the most. It's just so good!

I think there's a few completed versions lol Which one do you mean?

​@@meghanthestorygirl4581 I only know 1 published version "Sanditon, by Jane Austen and Another Lady". I would like to have you opinion on this completed version, if you know it. I've liked it though in my opinion the 2nd author made the story too short and too simple compaired to what Jane Austen dropped hints of. In my opinion the characters are not developped enough (eg Miss Lamb), secondary charaters plots are not fleshed out enough and finally some potential main themes of the unfinished manuscript are not used as : bankruptcy / unreasonable investments + "sea treatment" and other fashonnable and absurd medicine + habits change, extrantric behaviours and frivolous manners in sea bathing places. I'm not really sure that Jane Austen would have written "this" love story between Charlotte & Sidney because usually her heroine & hero find ways to complete each other, help each other to grow and improve their flaws and I don't find it's the case in the love story of this completed version of the novel. Despite all this, I love the book, I love this version of Sidney Parker, I like the dialogues, I love that the 2nd author really tried to keep on Jane Austen words and humour. It seems I had many things to say ! I wanted to know your opinion and your sentiments about this complete version of Sanditon. 😀

@@MissBennet83 I'll have to read that version of Sanditon! It sounds like I would really appreciate some aspects, but that I might also not find the Charlotte/Sidney storyline entirely satisfactory. You've definitely made me interested though!

Thank you!