My take on the Anne of Green Gables reboot may surprise some of you. When the news broke yesterday that there would be a new 8 hours of AOGG to air on the CBC in 2017, there was a flurry of posts, many of them decrying the new project, sight unseen. But I am not one of those people … [Read more...]
Top 10 Literary Crushes and Why We Love ‘Em
So, I thought we'd count backwards, because I always like my lists counted backwards, don't you? That way, it builds anticipation for number one! And btw, my abiding thanks to Modern Mrs. Darcy and her fine readers, whose comments about my guest blog--Gilbert Blythe vs Mr. … [Read more...]
A Eulogy for Gilbert Blythe
I can’t fathom it. Jonathan Crombie, the stage and screen actor who brought Gilbert Blythe to life in the near-flawless “Anne of Green Gables” miniseries, is dead at age 48. A brain hemorrhage, they say. And just like that, about forty years too young, the world loses a gifted actor, and a humble … [Read more...]