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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
I liked this installment in the Anne of Green Gables saga. It introduced the device of including excerpts of letters between Anne and her fiance, Gilbert, which added a great dimension to Anne's characterization. There were also a number of new neighbors for Anne to get to know (and meddle with). Entertaining.
ENGLISH:
When I tell you I STRUGGLED with this one !!!
I think listening to it helped me but even then, I got bored so so many times and felt myself disengaging myself from the story. Most of the book was epistolary : Anne writes to Gilbert through the entire book but we don't get ANY scene with them. The author teases us with Anne mentioning the summer break and going back home to see her friends and family (and Gilbert!!) and yet we don't see it!!!!!! We don't get any characters we learned to love in the previous books and instead, we have to endure a whole book about entirely new characters with Anne being insufferable by interfering in their lives. I am HOPING the next book will be in same vein as the first 3 and until then, I'll do my hardest to forget about this one. Anyway, at least the cover is pretty..
FRANCAIS:
Alors là les ami-e-s, j'ai eu grandement du mal avec ce tome !!
Je pense que le fait de l'avoir écouter en livre audio m'a aider dans le sens ou je n'avais pas a me poser pour entrer dans l'histoire mais mon dieu, ce tome était tellement ennuyant que j'ai senti mon esprit se mettre en off plusieurs fois pendant l'écoute.
Une grosse partie du livre est épistolaire : Anne écrit (d'interminables lettres) à Gilbert pour lui raconter ses aventures pendant leurs années séparées. Mais on nous donne ni de scènes d'eux ensemble, ni même de réponses de Gilbert. On nous dit que Anne retourne chez elle pendant les vacances mais on n'a pas le droit aux scènes. Bref, aucun moments avec les personnages qu'on a appris a aimer dans les tomes précédents, par contre, on a le droit a une tripoter de nouveaux personnages ainsi qu'à Anne jouant les entremetteuses à tire larigot.
J'espère de tout coeur qu'on retrouvera l'ambiance et les personnages des trois premiers tomes dans le cinquième et en attendant, je vais faire de mon mieux pour oublier celui-là.
Point positif : La couverture est magnifique.
When I tell you I STRUGGLED with this one !!!
I think listening to it helped me but even then, I got bored so so many times and felt myself disengaging myself from the story. Most of the book was epistolary : Anne writes to Gilbert through the entire book but we don't get ANY scene with them. The author teases us with Anne mentioning the summer break and going back home to see her friends and family (and Gilbert!!) and yet we don't see it!!!!!! We don't get any characters we learned to love in the previous books and instead, we have to endure a whole book about entirely new characters with Anne being insufferable by interfering in their lives. I am HOPING the next book will be in same vein as the first 3 and until then, I'll do my hardest to forget about this one. Anyway, at least the cover is pretty..
FRANCAIS:
Alors là les ami-e-s, j'ai eu grandement du mal avec ce tome !!
Je pense que le fait de l'avoir écouter en livre audio m'a aider dans le sens ou je n'avais pas a me poser pour entrer dans l'histoire mais mon dieu, ce tome était tellement ennuyant que j'ai senti mon esprit se mettre en off plusieurs fois pendant l'écoute.
Une grosse partie du livre est épistolaire : Anne écrit (d'interminables lettres) à Gilbert pour lui raconter ses aventures pendant leurs années séparées. Mais on nous donne ni de scènes d'eux ensemble, ni même de réponses de Gilbert. On nous dit que Anne retourne chez elle pendant les vacances mais on n'a pas le droit aux scènes. Bref, aucun moments avec les personnages qu'on a appris a aimer dans les tomes précédents, par contre, on a le droit a une tripoter de nouveaux personnages ainsi qu'à Anne jouant les entremetteuses à tire larigot.
J'espère de tout coeur qu'on retrouvera l'ambiance et les personnages des trois premiers tomes dans le cinquième et en attendant, je vais faire de mon mieux pour oublier celui-là.
Point positif : La couverture est magnifique.
The Anne-girl series continues as she moves away from home to do some work and some good in the new town where she is a principal. I did get a bit frustrated with the letter excerpts at this stage, but I suppose they were necessary. Some good characters were introduced and some old favorites returned. And as usual there were shining examples of literary phrasing that caused me to dog-ear a few pages.
I definitely enjoy seeing Anne and she continues to grow up!
I definitely enjoy seeing Anne and she continues to grow up!
Some descriptions are repetitive and way over the top - what I call "way too flowery and frilly."
The whole book was basically Anne's journal slash diary of gossip about the lives of the townspeople - especially when Anne herself just could not help but poke her nose into other peoples business and help them out with their problems.
I did have to put the book down after some characters storylines because they were hard to get through (some characters were quite unlikeable) - probably because I am no longer 20 years old - I am now in my 50s and I don't think I could never have survived with the sexist attitudes that those people had towards women back in those days (edwardian times).
I read this for my Epistolary challenge!!
The whole book was basically Anne's journal slash diary of gossip about the lives of the townspeople - especially when Anne herself just could not help but poke her nose into other peoples business and help them out with their problems.
I did have to put the book down after some characters storylines because they were hard to get through (some characters were quite unlikeable) - probably because I am no longer 20 years old - I am now in my 50s and I don't think I could never have survived with the sexist attitudes that those people had towards women back in those days (edwardian times).
I read this for my Epistolary challenge!!
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It was just too neat and pretty. As usual, I loved Montgomery's characters, but it was really just a book of stories, which really could have been told in almost any order. There was no story developed, no one changed, unless it was suddenly, and Anne was just too perfect through the whole thing. One of the things I loved about Anne in the other books was that she was genuinely human. She had actual failings, there were people who actually disliked her, and people she actually disliked. In this one EVERYTHING worked out with a pretty bow. Anne didn't learn any lessons or grow, she just kind of stagnated, waiting for Gilbert to finish school. I still liked it, but it wasn't as satisfying as the others.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Haven't read this in a very long time. Her choice to tell most of the story through the viewpoint of Anne's letters to Gilbert was both delightful and maddening, the latter especially because she glossed over most of the points where Anne "just the right sort of pen nib" to write love letters, and she intentionally omitted nearly all appearances by Gilbert. As a literary device this was brilliant - it emphasized the distance between them for those three years she taught in Summerside. But I wanted to read the sordid details of their romance!
It's probably been 25-30 years since I read this, and I remembered almost nothing. I am sure I did not get most of the literary references back then! I like adult Anne better than childish Anne -- the constant dreaminess, fancifulness of younger Anne wears on my realistic self.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced