Kindred Spirits: The works of LM Montgomery

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Yes, write it! I don't think there's anything unfeminist about Valancy. Most of LMM's books have the requisite happy ending - hell, even Rilla of Ingleside has it. But I think, particularly in Valancy's case, it's not just a happy ending, it's an ending about triumph, because her decision to take what was left of her life and make it her own, no matter what the cost, has paid off so completely, even to the extent that her family are now grovelling before her husband. And I love that. It takes me to a happy place, particularly because the first stage of doing what she wanted, going to wait on Cissy while she was dying, was so spontaneously generous and kind, especially given the context of Cissy's social shame.

[dwanollah]

Plus Valancy would KICK RILLA'S LISPING ASS!

I reread the book this weekend. Damn, there's a lot of sex in there!

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A little off topic, but has anyone seen the Anne BBC movie version? (I didn't even know there was one till I saw a copy today at Barnes and Noble.) I've only watched the one with Megan Fellowes and I never cared for it, but usually BBC book adaptations are pretty faithful to the book.

[dwanollah]

*immediately scrambles off to order*

Dang, I thought I had every version of everything!

[SGleason]

*Runs off too, but to add it to my Netflix queue!

Why they don't have the Anne of Green Gables is beyond me, though. How perverse.

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Hey, if you guys do get a chance to watch it, please let me know if it's any good-- I'd spend the money if it sounded good (and I do trust the impeccable literary taste of fellow Greecies)!

[prydainprincess]

Likewise. I had no idea BBC did this. When did it come out?

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I have no idea. I just happened to see the DVD in Barnes and Noble yesterday. What I found interesting is that the actress who plays Anne (although obviously wearing a wig) looks pretty much like the magazine cut out picture that LMM pasted in her journal as how she pictured Anne (nothing like the cute as a button Megan Fellowes--and nothing against her, I just never really "bought her" as Anne, even when I was a kid). The back cover said it is five and a half hours long, so it must be very faithful to the book.
I just know how much I liked the BBC version of "A Little Princess" (much more than the American movie versions) and it was very faithful to the book. So I'm thinking that I'd probably like the Anne one (the copy I saw was just for Anne of Avonlea).

[dwanollah]

Huh. I'm one ep into the BBC thingie, and.... Meh. The writing is great, as per most BBC adaptations of novels I've seen. But I'm not warming to the cast, and the actors keep slipping in and out of British accents and colloquial redneck American accents. Plus period hairstyles with a 1970s twist (as per Little House on the Prairie) always bug me.

p.s. The actress playing Anne has a decidedly non-pretty nose, too. *hrmpf!*

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Hmm...doesn't sound that promising. Well, thanks for the update, Dwanolloh.