This is all about a group of kids on Prince Edward Island. It's narrated by a guy named Beverly as an adult, looking back to a delightful summer from his childhood when he and his brother spent several months with an aunt and uncle and had fun with their cousins and friends. The kids have all sorts of adventures together, get into mischief, learn some lessons, solve some problems for one another and others, and spend a lot of time listening to the Story Girl tell stories.
The title character's real name is Sara Stanley, but everyone calls her the Story Girl because she is so wonderful at telling stories. She's fourteen and is blessed with both a vivid imagination and gift for storytelling. She's the center of the group of kids -- not the leader, but the one their adventures always end up revolving around.
This is one of those "slice of life" books I love that has a string of adventures and escapades and incidents in the lives of its characters, rather than one all-encompassing plot. L. M. Montgomery excelled at both kinds of books, which is pretty amazing!
Particularly Good Bits:
It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come, and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter (p. 320).
If This was a Movie, I Would Rate It: G. Good, clean, wholesome fun!
This is my 28th book read and reviewed for my fourth Classics Club list, and my 21st read from my TBR shelves for the 2024 Mount TBR Reading Challenge.
This is a book, I'd love to read, but even in our "internationalized" times I've had no luck findig it in Denmark - and no, I do not read eBooks.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte, that must be so frustrating! Have you tried ordering it from somewhere like Etsy, where most of the shops ship internationally? I found this used copy from a shop that says they ship to Denmark.
DeleteAlso, Better World Books and Waterstones both ship all over the world, and they're pretty reasonable, I think?
I read very few e-books myself. Mostly just advance reader copies. I want a real book in my hands!