Books You Can't Stop Reading

[Ebony]

> >From: "jenny from ravenclaw" <meboriqua at a...>
> >
> >Are there books that you have read so many times you *still* know
> >chunks by heart?  Are you also unable to explain why?


Anything by Lucy Maud Montgomery, of course!

*The Blue Castle* is for the times when I feel as if I'll never find 
that special someone.

*Rilla of Ingleside* is for when I want to have a good cry.

The Emily series is for when I want to read about the white, 
Edwardian, and Canadian version of myself.

And the Anne books are like a cup of french vanilla-laced chocolate 
and homemade cookies on a crisp winter day... like cherries and ice 
cream in the spring... like an ice-cold drink of water on a hot 
summer's day... and mulled cider and fried doughnuts (yes, I am from 
Michigan--can't you tell?) in the fall.  Total comfort books.

I can recite whole passages of LMM books by heart, and there were two 
occasions in which Maud slipped into my HP fanfiction writing... I 
got called on it by reviewers, but it's seriously not like I popped 
open the books and typed what I saw.  Places that I've memorized 
include Emily's description at the beginning of *Emily's Quest*, both 
of Gil's proposals at the end of *Anne of the Island*, and Walter's 
famous letter.  I also think I have the first six or seven chapters 
of *Anne's House of Dreams* memorized.
 
--Ebony