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What Members Thought

I was just casually browsing the Audible Plus catalog and came across this book, narrated by Rachel McAdams. I love this book and I love Rachel McAdams and I was just curious, so I listened to a sample. And just kept going!
This was one of my favorite childhood books, but I honestly thought I had read it enough for now and wasn’t planning to come back to it for a while. I sampled the audiobook just to see how Rachel McAdams sounds as Anne, and ended up getting sucked back into the wonderful nosta ...more
This was one of my favorite childhood books, but I honestly thought I had read it enough for now and wasn’t planning to come back to it for a while. I sampled the audiobook just to see how Rachel McAdams sounds as Anne, and ended up getting sucked back into the wonderful nosta ...more

I've noticed I have a lot less patience towards these kinds of books than I did when I was a child. Anne was incredibly annoying and her uniqueness was underlined a bit too much for my liking.
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This is my favorite reread. I have read it more times than I can remember :-D
About the hair thingy... it was only this year I came to think about that it would have worked, had she just applied it correctly and more than once.
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About the hair thingy... it was only this year I came to think about that it would have worked, had she just applied it correctly and more than once.


Part of the BBC 100 books list. Enjoyed this much more than I thought I would.

Jul 15, 2009
Julia
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It held up better than many of my favorites from childhood.




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