Absolute Kindheit, Anne habe ich als Kind so sehr geliebt als Zeichentrick. Es jetzt als Buch nochmal neu zu erleben ist einfach toll. Anne ist ein so kreatives Mädchen, das einfach einen Ort finden möchte wo sie endlich ankommen darf. Bei Marilla und Metthew Cuthbert darf Anne sich zu hause fühlen, geht zur Schule und lernt echte Freunde kennen. Und sogar einen Erzfeind bekommt Anne.

It is a very inspiring and lovely novel, I really loved to listen to this in audiobook format, because it gives you that little bit of spice to Anne’s personality, the voice acting of the reader makes it much more relatable and colorful I think. I loved Anne’s character and how she is a very cheerful and optimistic little girl with her huge fantasy. I admire her story, and how she could always get up from every hard things of her life, and how she could solve everything relying on her imagination. It is a very nice and simple story of an orphan girl, and how she finds her beloved home at last at 11 years old. We can see how her life unfolds in her new circumstances, and how she evolves around these new town people, new mother and father figure through ages. She gets always in trouble but she always manages to save these situations afterwards, she is living every aspect her life with very intense emotions, and I loved to be able to live like her and enjoy every little thing with her kind of enthusiasm. I especially liked that she gave a name to everything to make little everyday things more interesting and joyful. Like the Lake of Shiny Waters, and so on. I think it is a very lovely thing, and I am 100% going to make these kind of funny games with my children, when they have to give names to everything, just to make these things for them more special and memorable. I loved every character of this book, because nobody was evil in this book. There were people who were a little bit rude or just not so nice, but in the everybody turned out very nice and relatable. On that level, maybe all characters were a little bit the same, so the writer could make the story more interesting with some really evil person as well, who make some really serious problem. What I really loved about the novel was that it carried so many truths about life, and it was expressed so beautifully. I enjoyed the meaningful parts, the lessons about life that the novel illustrated, wrapped into different life events. I liked how Anne changes—even though her roots and her basic nature remain the same, as she grows up and becomes an adult, she still goes through transformations. For example, she talks less and feels it is now better to keep her innermost thoughts to herself, so that she won’t be laughed at or have them used against her. It was a truly captivating little novel. The end of it was just very sad, because Matthew dies, and I cried my eyes out. The writer writes it down very nicely how interesting is grief, and Anne takes this turn of life also the very best. I loved that for her, she just can not be crushed or broken. The story has a sequel, which I am going to read someday! Just for my future self: don’t forget to play the name game with your children! My favorite quotes and theres more dozens of them: It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. True friends are always together in spirit. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet. Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult. I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones". ...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... We ought always to try to influence others for good. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills? I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us. Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

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*3,5 I like you, Anne. But if I have to listen to you one more time talking about some “Glimpse of the imagination”, I’ll go mad.