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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
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I don’t know how to feel about this book
read as ebook on Libby
I don’t know how to feel about this book
read as ebook on Libby
This one felt much more like a series of sweet short stories than a cohesive novel. I do always appreciate how Montgomery describes the natural world around her...it's my favorite thing about her writing.
je l'ai clairement moins aimé que les tomes précédents : on voit presque plus anne, gilbert est carrément inexistant sur la majorité du livre... seul point positif, on retrouve des enfants naïfs qui se mettent dans toutes sortes de situations étranges, mais honnêtement ils ont pas le talent d'anne pour ça
Anne of Ingleside? More like Anne's annoying children of Ingleside!
Because Anne is barely in this, but a million of her offspring are, and all of them suck.
This is more a series of vignettes about angelic and cherubic children with lisps and rambunctious tendencies who are never punished and eat approximately 6 desserts a day than it is a novel.
These kids are so pure and holy. It's a snooze and a goddamn shame.
But even ignoring that, there is so much to hate about this.
For one thing, all of the characters who are posed as villains, or who are made fun of, or who are unworthy or gross or unkind or anything negative at all, are the poor people - whereas when the rich or well off people have a negative trait, it's a quirk. This pattern is very obvious, and it gets very old.
There is also very little relief from these two things. Anne is a shell of herself even when she shows up, Gilbert barely exists, and Susan (the servant) talks so much about wanting to be married and yet!! The author never marries her off!!! Why not, when every rich asshole in this gets a happy ending and it happens 24 times per installment!
Probably because she's poor, and therefore the meaning of her life is wiping the behinds of Anne's Christianparasites offspring.
Hoo. That was a lot of vitriol for a well-meaning children's classic.
Bottom line: Even the things we love will betray us!
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pre-review
more like anne's annoying children of ingleside
review to come / 1.5 stars
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currently-reading updates
am i getting tired of these books? yes.
will i probably put off finishing the series for as long as humanly possible out of a phobia of endings? for sure.
clear ur sh*t book 53
quest 24: a book in a series
Because Anne is barely in this, but a million of her offspring are, and all of them suck.
This is more a series of vignettes about angelic and cherubic children with lisps and rambunctious tendencies who are never punished and eat approximately 6 desserts a day than it is a novel.
These kids are so pure and holy. It's a snooze and a goddamn shame.
But even ignoring that, there is so much to hate about this.
For one thing, all of the characters who are posed as villains, or who are made fun of, or who are unworthy or gross or unkind or anything negative at all, are the poor people - whereas when the rich or well off people have a negative trait, it's a quirk. This pattern is very obvious, and it gets very old.
There is also very little relief from these two things. Anne is a shell of herself even when she shows up, Gilbert barely exists, and Susan (the servant) talks so much about wanting to be married and yet!! The author never marries her off!!! Why not, when every rich asshole in this gets a happy ending and it happens 24 times per installment!
Probably because she's poor, and therefore the meaning of her life is wiping the behinds of Anne's Christian
Hoo. That was a lot of vitriol for a well-meaning children's classic.
Bottom line: Even the things we love will betray us!
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pre-review
more like anne's annoying children of ingleside
review to come / 1.5 stars
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currently-reading updates
am i getting tired of these books? yes.
will i probably put off finishing the series for as long as humanly possible out of a phobia of endings? for sure.
clear ur sh*t book 53
quest 24: a book in a series
3 1/2 stars
More whimsy in this one than the last, which made it more like the earlier books. Good! I particularly enjoyed getting to know Anne's children and the quilting circle.
More whimsy in this one than the last, which made it more like the earlier books. Good! I particularly enjoyed getting to know Anne's children and the quilting circle.
I love this series too much to rate it any lower than 4 stars. I loved the sweetness of the entire book, the little vignettes from different perspectives. However, for a book about Anne, there wasn't enough Anne. I am saddened that I didn't get her perspective enough, and when I did, she was always so rosy happy with everything. The chapter about doubts of Gilbert were the most interesting, because she seemed like a real person. I wanted her thoughts about giving up writing, about something other than her children and matchmaking. She just didn't seem like Anne - she could have been any matronly housewife and I wouldn't have known the difference. And another thing - she had Susan for all the kitchen and housekeeping, and she seemed to be always going away for nights or weekends away, so what did she actually do when she was home? In a whole book, we never saw her do anything but garden or plan gardens. Surely Anne of Green Gables isn't minimized to just that?
Not my favorite of the Anne. Oops. I found her children to be slightly annoying, to be honest.
J'ai été déçu par ce tome. Anne est quasiment devenue un personnage secondaire de sa propre histoire. Et si découvrir les péripéties de ses enfants rappelle l'histoire qu'on a connue de son enfance et m'a permis de m'attacher à cette nouvelle génération, j'ai un problème avec presque tous les autres personnages adultes de ce tome. Trop de noms, de ragots et cancans sur des personnes qu'on ne connait pas ? ou depuis longtemps oubliés ? J'ai passé de nombreux chapitres à vouloir abandonner radicalement ma lecture tellement l'histoire ne m'intéressait plus.
Quant au dernier chapitre il m'a vraiment collé une belle frayeur, dans le sens "j'ai enduré plus de 400 pages pour arriver à cette conclusion ? PARDON ?". Et si au final tout est rentré dans l'ordre, ça me laisse vraiment une mauvaise dernière impression
Mais certains moments m'ont rappelé la douceur et la joie que j'ai ressenties à lecture des deux premiers tomes. Alors je ne peux pas dire que j'ai détesté ma lecture. Simplement elle m'a laissée sur ma faim
Quant au dernier chapitre il m'a vraiment collé une belle frayeur, dans le sens "j'ai enduré plus de 400 pages pour arriver à cette conclusion ? PARDON ?". Et si au final tout est rentré dans l'ordre, ça me laisse vraiment une mauvaise dernière impression
Mais certains moments m'ont rappelé la douceur et la joie que j'ai ressenties à lecture des deux premiers tomes. Alors je ne peux pas dire que j'ai détesté ma lecture. Simplement elle m'a laissée sur ma faim
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