Week Four of the 2013 Book Challenge

I'm caught up on reading; getting behind on blogging about reading. Oh, the perils of social media! I finally read Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island.  Predictable situations mixed in with good insights on human nature.  The books are not twaddly, unlike the television adaptations.

One of the characters who is a boarder/teacher complains about the too diligent cook with whom she boards who wrecks the teacher's digestion with heavy meals.  When I awoke in the wee hours after dining too late on Beef Burritos I realized that I was falling into the pattern of the book in cooking a heavy meal for the Student Home from College.

From my notes and bookmarks: 

"Having broken up housekeeping, Mrs. Lynde had more time than ever to devote to church affairs and had flung herself into them heart and soul.  She was at present much worked up over the poor "supplies" they were having in the vacant Avonlea pulpit."
[Description of a character in Anne of the Island]

"...When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those things that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding." 
[Aunt Jimsie to Phil in Anne of the Island.]