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Anne of the Island
L.M. Montgomery · 1915 · 256 pages
"Harvest is ended and summer is gone," quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.
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Jasmine Guillory
“There are books that I read a lot when I was a kid that we don’t think of as traditional romance novels, but there’s lots of romance in them. I love the Anne of Green Gables books, especially Anne of the Island, where she and Gilbert go to college and he tries to get her to marry him, but she says no. Then their friendship breaks up, and then they get back together—love it. That romance has always stuck with me because I think it’s very real; they started as enemies, then became friends, and then fell in love—that transition of a relationship is done so well, and it really makes you fall in love with them together.”↗