Beyond this, you feel more connected with the characters and the story itself.
Reading this book is like watching bonus features on a movie. You get to see the outtakes and cuts, that don’t make it into the final product. For example, Diana Barry’s name was originally Laura! I know, it’s hard imagine, I bet even Anne would have trouble imagining that!
What makes this book so wonderful, is that you get to see the real, raw, thing. You can see all of the blood, sweat and tears that the author put into it. The corrections she made, when she crossed things out because she misspelled words, the added words, and whole added paragraphs. Those things are what makes it truly enthralling.
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Marcus
Much like Anne, Montgomery grew up with a deep love for nature. When she was nine years old, Montgomery wrote a poem about her favourite tree, a birch that she referred to as The Monarch of the Forest. The poem began like this: Around the poplar and the spruce, The fir and maple stood; But the old tree that I loved best, Grew in the Haunted wood. ?
Tamsine
How fascinating. I love being able to see L M Montgomery’s actual handwriting.