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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This one is not my favourite. It's told mostly through letters sent during Anne's time in Summerside. Most of this book centres around new characters so I missed my old favourites.
The title should read:
Windy Anne of the Poplars , because oh she does go on and on and on and on and on and on and on! Usually I'm dead keen on a good 'Anne of [scenically named place]' book, but I found this one a tad bit drier and just not entirely to me tastes.
I liked little Elizabeth, for all her story arc does go into the stratosphere of unlikely, but everything else, well, it really did feel like reading the letters of some long forgotten Grannie who you suspected of being rather more lively & raunchy in her younger days, only to find out that my gosh was she ever just BLAH! Oh Grannie, why didn't you live more when you had the chance?
It's still filled with the same life and lightness of the other books, and it won't put you off the entire series as a whole, but it's definitely not in any way as good as it's predecessors.
Recommended for the hard core Anne Fan!
Windy Anne of the Poplars , because oh she does go on and on and on and on and on and on and on! Usually I'm dead keen on a good 'Anne of [scenically named place]' book, but I found this one a tad bit drier and just not entirely to me tastes.
I liked little Elizabeth, for all her story arc does go into the stratosphere of unlikely, but everything else, well, it really did feel like reading the letters of some long forgotten Grannie who you suspected of being rather more lively & raunchy in her younger days, only to find out that my gosh was she ever just BLAH! Oh Grannie, why didn't you live more when you had the chance?
It's still filled with the same life and lightness of the other books, and it won't put you off the entire series as a whole, but it's definitely not in any way as good as it's predecessors.
Recommended for the hard core Anne Fan!
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
“You were never poor as long as you had something to love.” -- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars
A one-sided epistolary account of the three years intervening Anne and Gilbert’s engagement and marriage. One-sided as all of the letters are penned by Anne, Gilbert’s replies up to your imagination.
A one-sided epistolary account of the three years intervening Anne and Gilbert’s engagement and marriage. One-sided as all of the letters are penned by Anne, Gilbert’s replies up to your imagination.
I can make many reproaches of this fourth installment to the Anne series. The lack of continuity: characters—Pauline, Hazel, Mrs. Tomgallon, Gerald and Geraldine — appear and disappear with neither preamble nor follow-up; Gilbert’s absent character — I honestly can’t remember him uttering a single line of dialogue; the gradual fading of all those elements of Anne’s character that once won my seven-year-old heart — her imagination, ambition, and stubborn perseveration despite all odds. By now, she has all but given up her authorial ambitions, content to surround herself with the less clever and less educated for their admiration.
For all its faults, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Perhaps it was the saving grace of nostalgia; perhaps my heart, aggrieved by Frankenstein and bruised by If We Were Villains, found the relief it sought in this light-hearted novel. It’s not one you pick up for its historical or literary value (though I believe Montgomery’s prose is singular in its own charming, diffident way), but for a comforting reminder that the best lies beyond every bend in the road, and the pithy truths tucked between the lines.
I read this book as part of the 300 books everyone should read once challenge featured on listopia. i can't believe i never read them before this. i'm really enjoying it. although i can't see any person getting into as many adventures and scrapes as anne seems too even as an adult.
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No