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DCIB Book Club: Rilla of Ingleside, What Does it Mean to Write the Rough Draft of History?

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I have a terrible feeling none of you listened to me and read this book (who hadn’t read it already). So I’m gonna say again, READ IT! I just re-read it for this post, and it is good as I remember, and as unique. It’s a fascinating true-feeling document of a very specific time and place and people.

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Anne of Green Gables, a Heroine Who Shows that Happily Ever After is a Little Dull and That’s Okay

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Woot! Anne of Green Gables!!!! I love this series, have loved it almost my entire life since my Mom first read it aloud to me when I was 6. And in many ways it defined my identity as a woman and my life goals, spoke to something no other text does. Mostly, it spoke to the beauty and happiness of every day woman’s work.

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