An old favorite

I've just finished re-reading L.M Mongomery's 'Emily's Quest'(I read my old paper back copy, but if anyone wants to re-read it, you can find the whole novel online here ).I hadn't read any of the Emily books (this is the last of the trilogy) in a long time, and just picked it up when I was cleaning out my bookshelves to make room for other things, but it was just such a delight. It was like visiting old friends again. I think I love L.M Mongomery's book just as much now as I did when I was 11. Maybe even more so. I was really able to relate to where Emily was in the last novel, because her being stuck at home (although she loved hers more than I've ever loved my hometown) with most of her old friends gone except for one, working on her writing and dealing with getting rejection letter after rejection letter. How much I understood how she feels when she writes,
"I'm not lonely--I have my work and my books and the hope of spring--and I know that this calm, simple existence is a much better and happier one than the hectic life I led last summer. I believed that before I wrote it down. And now I don't believe it. It isn't true. This is stagnation!!"
I spent the whole book raging everytime the inevitable romantic conclusion was thwarted, but when it finally happened on the second to last page, I teared up.
It's so nice to re-read things you loved as a child and love them even more now.