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Year of the Classics: Nomes Tells Us All How To Live Like Anne of Green Gables

3/31/2012

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We are so happy to have our Aussie friend Nomes from Inkcrush here today to write a guest post for the Year of the Classics. I asked her to write about one of our favorite series of all times, Anne of Green Gables. She got really into her assignment, randomly sending me factoids about L.M. Montgomery's life, and she was even sport enough to take a few pictures of her taking her own "Living As Anne" advice. 

How To Be Anne of Green Gables

1. Tragic back story is a must. Preferably involving TWINS in some form. Orphanages, child labour and imaginary friends found in the window reflections optional.

Never Trust A Peddler
Shouldn't have trusted that peddler, Nomes.
       
2. Lose track of time/run late on errands due to walking around reading and getting swept away by the book you are reading.

3. Dye your hair black. #Never Trust A 
Peddler 
Walking the Roofbeam
Don't walk the roofbeam, Anne!!

4. Find your kindred spirit, and love them so. Activities to share with your bosom friend: three-legged races, jumping on old ladies while they sleep in their beds in the middle of the night. Essential: develop code system of communicating involving blinds, lights and long distances. Writing letters, with paper and pens. City excursions and whispered secrets. A period of (forced, painful, but somehow poetic) estrangement optional. 


5. Never (and I mean never ever) back down from a dare. Bonus points: if your whole class (including cute guy) watches you accomplish said dare, fearless and daring, nose in the air. 

6. Always let your imagination get carried away with itself. Comes in handy when taking short-cuts through haunted woods.
Haunted Woods
Nomes/Anne in the haunted woods.

    
7. Pick a favourite fictional character. Preferably one who has a tragic and/or gothic dramatic storyline. Elaborately re-enact your characters most dramatic scenes. Lady of Shalott FTW. Bonus: endanger your life while doing so, needing the rescue of cute (archenemy) boy.

8. Invite your bosom friend over and watch them binge on, erm, raspberry cordial... 

9. Invent a prettier, more fanciful name for yourself. At times, introduce yourself thus. Cordelia works fine. (author’s note: As a child I begged my own family to call me Nancy, which I fancied was a much prettier, somehow more eventful name for a child such as I. Now, to my despair, my family still occasionally revert back to calling my Nancy. Ugh.)
Anne stuck under the bridge
Luckily, Gil will always save you.
10. View the world through romantical whimsy. That pond by the side of the road? The Lake of Shining Waters. 

11. Make desserts for your favourite teacher coming for dinner. This, coupled with your day-dreaming disposition, could be a recipe for disaster. Heads up: be on the look out for rats. (a rather romantic end for a rat, to be drowned in pudding...) 

12. Regarding apologies. You will need to make a lot of them. Don’t settle for the humble “sorry”. Compose elaborate apologies, adorned with poetically moving statements. 
                             

                             13. Wear puffy sleeves.  
Puffy Sleeves
They can never be TOO puffy.
Anne & Gil
Anne & Gilbert

14. Be fiercely, ridiculously competitive  and stand-offish with the cutest (oh-so-swoony) boy at school. Despite his charm, gorgeous accent, intelligence, antagonistic playfulness, good nature, general gorgeousness and (obvious to everyone but you) besottedness, you remain aloof. (WHY?! For the love of God!). Please don’t wait until he is on his death bed to have your epiphany that you are MADLY AND CRAZILY IN LOVE WITH THE PERFECTION THAT IS GILBERT BLYTHE. Is there any other fictional boy more swoony? (Authors note: I seem to have gotten carried away...) 


15. Most importantly of all, to be Anne Shirley with an E ~ despite everything, all your stuff ups, and good intentions gone awry, you will charm everyone. Not only every citizen of Avonlea, all those prim girls of …. Children, teenagers and adults from the last century will fall in love with you.  

Anne Shirley, you are the most delightful of heroines, ever. Anne of Green Gables is not just a classic, it’s a rite of passage. 

Much love, 
Nomes.      


Thanks for the life advice, Nomes! I'd love to write something longer but I have really important things to do like playing 1,000,000 Draw Something games with you and watching Anne of Green Gables. Ladies and Gentlemen, HAPPY SATURDAY!
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Catie (The Readventurer) link
3/31/2012 06:51:14 am

Nomes!! I LOVE THIS POST SO MUCH!! I am a committed Anne of Green Gables fanatic from the age of eight, so I always try to live by these invaluable rules. Another one I use all the time: when mired in tragedy, always describe yourself as being "in the depths of despair." (I really do that!)

I love that part in the movie when Gilbert rescues her and she says that she was "fishing for lake trout." Too hilarious. Oh Gilbert - if only he were real.

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Nomes link
3/31/2012 09:15:05 am

oh, i COMPLETELY use the phrase 'depths of despair' as well.

it does not surprise me that you are an Anne fan, Catie. She is the perfect heroine to grow up with, hey. My daughter is 7 now, and I have bought her the audio book, plus shown her the movie (once). I need to make sure I make her just as fanatical as me :)

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Tatiana (The Readventurer) link
3/31/2012 07:19:49 am

Nomes, many people have tried to convinced me to read AoGG, but it was you who finally did. I am checking out the audio.

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Nomes link
3/31/2012 09:24:34 am

oh, i really think you'd like it. of course, i have the nostalgic factor working for me, making me love it 1000% more :)

the movies are good, too. The ones with Megan Follows in it.

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VeganYANerds link
3/31/2012 07:55:34 am

What a fun guest post! I haven't read AoGG since I was a kid but you have made me want to a. re-read it and b. watch the movie!

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Nomes link
3/31/2012 09:54:44 am

oh, you should so revisit it! It is even better as an adult, having all the nostalgia as you watch/read it :)

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Fiona Wood link
3/31/2012 08:33:39 am

Gorgeous, Nomes - makes me want to go back and read again for the thousandth time! (ps never liked that casting of Gilbert, looks nothing like the *real* Gilbert, ie the one in my head)

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Nomes link
3/31/2012 09:57:34 am

Unfortunately, I watched the movie before I first read the book, so I only ever saw the actors in my head. I like Megan Follows as Anne, but she is very beautiful, not quite sure L M Montgomery intended her to be so.

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Reynje
3/31/2012 10:33:10 am

I adore this post Nomes! It's making me all nostalgic :) I've been meaning to re-read the Anne books for a while now, I really need to do it soon.

Gilbert Blythe.. *sigh*

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Jasprit link
3/31/2012 10:10:23 pm

This is a fantastic post Nomes, I still can't believe I haven't read it yet, I remember Flan telling me about it and I thought she was talking about a place somewhere! I've definitely got points 9 and 14 covered, I remember my gran used to always want to name me Julie! Whenever someone brings it up now, we find it absolutely hilarious, and I always used to act like I was disgusted by the mere presence of the boy I fancied, I probably thought I was doing a grand job, but I'm sure he probably knew I made it blatantly obvious!

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Jo [Wear the Old Coat] link
4/3/2012 04:53:27 am

Nomes, will you be my kindred spirit? I will wear puffy sleeved dresses all the time.
THANKS.


:-D
I love the pictures, by the way. Hahaha.

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Heidi link
4/3/2012 08:36:40 am

LOVE this post! In fact, love it so much I'm now convinced my next audiobook will be a reread of Anne of Green Gables. Puffy sleeves? Spit take.

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Chachic link
4/5/2012 12:03:11 am

Nomes! I love this post, especially those pictures that you posted of you walking in the woods. :P I really need to collect newer editions of all the books in the series so I can reread them. I think my old copies have been passed on to a younger cousin.

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Katie link
5/4/2012 10:05:53 pm

YAY! Anne of Green Gables! *does a little happy dance.*
Yes... I love those books. Currently decorating my room, and trying to get it as Anne-ish as possible with pretty florals, lacey fripperies and the odd gingham cushion here and there. I always feel at my most Anne-ish in spring when the sun's shining and the world looks so bright and clean and the blossom is everywhere.

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Juju at Tales of Whimsy.com link
5/4/2012 10:29:09 pm

What a cool post! :D Can you believe I've never read her? I do look forward to reading her with my daughter someday.

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