Happy 141st Birthday, Lucy Maud Montgomery!
Years ago, I had read about the Green Gables Farm being the Number One destination wedding location for Japanese couples. I can't recall if this is where Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe married, but their story is certainly very romantic, starting in grade school with Anne being teased by Gilbert for having red hair, and, after getting over that hump and Anne clueless about Gilbert falling in love with her, ending with Anne finally agreeing to marry him (sigh!).
This is considered a Young Adult series, but because it starts with Anne as a young orphan, it traditionally is put into the Children's section of our store (as well as others'). It probably should stay there as being a little more optimistic than what young adults want to read nowadays (just Carolyn's opinion!)
Our website, as "powered" by IndieCommerce and Ingram Book Company, cites L.M Montgomery as the "one of the most famous Canadian writers of the twentieth century." Judging by the number of you who said, "Who?," this must be correct, since I can think of a lot of writers who might be Canadian (not to mention actors and newscasters), but not think of Canadians who might be writers. Google celebrated today with a series of animations on its homepage, which I cannot recreate for you, because I don't know how. I don't know why the webmaster for The Guardian online newspaper doesn't know how, either, but its article simply has screen shots. Oh, Googlemaster, help us spread the word by giving us links to Lucy's b-day celebratory home pages.
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