Anne of Green Gables
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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- My ex was really into her, but I never quite got the appeal. The character seemed to far-fetched to be relatable. Then I read Anne of Green Gables as an adult, and began to understand that there are harsh and endearing moments amongst the child-like chaos.
- I've read over fifty books this year (I read a lot). The ones I've enjoyed the most are:
* The MurderBot Series (Wells) - So good I read them all twice through
* The Interdependency Series (Scalzi) - Creative and fun, but I didn't like the wrap-up and ending.
* Project Hail Mary - Surprising fun! jazz hands
* Old Man's War series (Scalzi) - First three were great, last three were so-so
* Anne of Green Gables - My daughters loved this one. I just now got around to reading it and found it deeply touching AND amusing. I laughed aloud a lot!
* Lord of the Rings - I re-read it once a year.
- Anne of Green Gables
- "Anne of Green Gables" and its sequels. I love the simple, every-day stories LM Montgomery writes and her philosophy of life that shines through. The first reminds me of the way I grew up and the second has often inspired me. I also love the way she sees beauty in everything, and how she conveys that in her prose.
These are the books I turn to when I am depressed or stressed or just fed up with life in general :-)
- Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil. Bounced off a few Robert Macfarlane titles —just not for me — and also Anne of Green Gables w my kid
- Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) has only recently entered the public domain for life+50 countries due to JRR Tolkien dying in 1973, despite the work being over 70 years old. It won't enter the public domain in life+70 countries until 2044.
Only recently are works written in the early to mid 1900s being released in the public domain. This limits the works to around the first world war. For example:
- HG Wells (Died 1946, Life+70 in 2017), works like War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.
- LM Montgomery (Died 1942, Life+70 in 2013), works like Anne of Green Gables -- In the US where publication + 90 years is in effect, her later works (after ~1925) are not yet in the public domain there.
With comic IPs, most are not yet in the public domain:
- Superman (1938, P+95 of 2034) and will only cover that incarnation of the character.
- Batman (1939, P+95 of 2035) and will only cover that incarnation of the character.
So the current copyright terms are very limiting for IPs that are nearly a decade old.
