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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
well, aku baca buku ini pas masih smp. so far, aku suka background year theme nya dan aku suka gimana penulis mendeskripsikan gambaran New Moon. Tapi aku merasa bukunya terlalu bertele-tele dan konfliknya tidak terlalu terasa. Berharap mungkin ada versi film nya atau mungkin sudah ada tapi aku belum nonton. Karena di Anne of Green Gables yang difilmkan sama Netflix jadi with an E aku suka sih ya.
adventurous
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In honor of my recent trip to Prince Edward Island, setting of Anne of Green Gables, I decided to read another L.M. Montgomery book from my childhood. I reread Anne of Green Gables last year so I pulled out the copy I still own of Emily of New Moon and took it with me on my trip. It is similar to Anne in that a young girl's parents have died and she goes to live with older individuals. In this case Emily goes to live with two of her mother's sisters and a cousin. Like Anne, she slowly wins over their hearts.
There are little antics of Emily's life and friendships as she matures and grows. There is sexism galore as women had no rights that a modern reader has to grimace through.
I have always loved Emily for her love of writing. Her cousin Jimmy encourages her writing and buys her notebooks that she calls her "jimmy book." I called several of my journal's "jimmy books" when I was growing up too after reading this series.
2024 52 Book Club reading challenge #28 A yellow spine
There are little antics of Emily's life and friendships as she matures and grows. There is sexism galore as women had no rights that a modern reader has to grimace through.
I have always loved Emily for her love of writing. Her cousin Jimmy encourages her writing and buys her notebooks that she calls her "jimmy book." I called several of my journal's "jimmy books" when I was growing up too after reading this series.
2024 52 Book Club reading challenge #28 A yellow spine
I read this for my LitLife Podcast challenge 2 for 2022 - favorite book by a favorite author. Somewhere I found that Madeleine L'Engle - my favorite author - loved Emily of New Moon and so I added it to the list.
By chapter 2 I was completely convinced that was true.
Emily could've been Madeleine's childhood (creepy older cousin notwithstanding). Stories and poetry flowing out of her; a love for words, letters, ideas, fairy; a sick and soon deceased father; misunderstood by teachers and schoolfellows (but the few); living a backward and old-fashioned life (in Switzerland for L'Engle) ... I can see how Montgomery's insistence that the father's God of Love was a foundational idea for L'Engle (between LM Montgomery and George MacDonald, no wonder L'Engle's theology is so often conceived as Universalistic)
I very much enjoyed listening to this story. I loved Anne as a young person and can see why many love Emily more - I did until the creepy cousin shows up. She views the world as one might wish one did. I don't know if I'll read more Emily books or not, but I'm glad to have listened to this one.
By chapter 2 I was completely convinced that was true.
Emily could've been Madeleine's childhood (creepy older cousin notwithstanding). Stories and poetry flowing out of her; a love for words, letters, ideas, fairy; a sick and soon deceased father; misunderstood by teachers and schoolfellows (but the few); living a backward and old-fashioned life (in Switzerland for L'Engle) ... I can see how Montgomery's insistence that the father's God of Love was a foundational idea for L'Engle (between LM Montgomery and George MacDonald, no wonder L'Engle's theology is so often conceived as Universalistic)
I very much enjoyed listening to this story. I loved Anne as a young person and can see why many love Emily more - I did until the creepy cousin shows up. She views the world as one might wish one did. I don't know if I'll read more Emily books or not, but I'm glad to have listened to this one.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
slow-paced
not as much of a slay as anne of green gables but still a slay nonetheless!
L.M. Montgomery has a way of writing that calls deep to the soul of young girls. Emily just worms her sweet way into one's heart and you laugh over her victories and want to cry at the injustices that life hands her. New Moon and Blair Water become old friends in these books. Fabulous.
Never read as a child. Was so engrossed in this during a bus ride that when Wendy called me I had to ask HER what time it was and look around to figure out where I was. Emily's lovely, and although I love Anne, too, she's nothing like Anne. Sometimes I actually agreed with her elderly relatives that her behavior was a bit horrifying. :-) I liked that she didn't accept the way her elders treated her, and I liked that some of them eventually came around, too.