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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Probably my second favorite book (after Anne of Green Gables) in this series!
This is the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series and one with a more serious tone as World War I breaks out and several of our beloved male characters enlist. However this book, as you might guess from the title, focuses on Rilla, youngest child of Anne, and life on the homefront in Canada during the Great War.
There was a lot to love about this book. First unlike the previous two books, this one focuses one just one character: the lovely spoiled 15-year old Rilla. Because it follows just her, I had a greater understanding of her, of her hopes and dreams AND was still able to learn the fates of my favorite characters. Over the course of the book, Rilla matures so much and endures a lot. She was a great character and even had some of the irrepressible joy of her mother.
Second, this book is mostly set during WWI. The beginning of the book overlaps with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, an event the papers mention but few take notice of. How could the death of an Austro-Hungarian archduke affect the denizens of Canada? But too soon, everyone is swept up into war. Rilla has three older brothers and various other young men around the island enlist, including Rilla's sweetheart. No one is spared the pain of missing loved ones and some do die. Thus the emotional stakes are very high.
Third, this was a different book for me. I've read several books set during WWI and other wars. I've read books about serving at the front and about staying at home. But I'm an American and most of the books I've read have been about the American experience. This is a Canadian book and thus follows the fortunes of the United Kingdom and Canada. Thus I got to learn a bit more about the Great War!
Overall, an excellent mix of the serious with the humorous to leaven the tense parts as well as featuring a great character arc and some history lessons.
This is the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series and one with a more serious tone as World War I breaks out and several of our beloved male characters enlist. However this book, as you might guess from the title, focuses on Rilla, youngest child of Anne, and life on the homefront in Canada during the Great War.
There was a lot to love about this book. First unlike the previous two books, this one focuses one just one character: the lovely spoiled 15-year old Rilla. Because it follows just her, I had a greater understanding of her, of her hopes and dreams AND was still able to learn the fates of my favorite characters. Over the course of the book, Rilla matures so much and endures a lot. She was a great character and even had some of the irrepressible joy of her mother.
Second, this book is mostly set during WWI. The beginning of the book overlaps with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, an event the papers mention but few take notice of. How could the death of an Austro-Hungarian archduke affect the denizens of Canada? But too soon, everyone is swept up into war. Rilla has three older brothers and various other young men around the island enlist, including Rilla's sweetheart. No one is spared the pain of missing loved ones and some do die. Thus the emotional stakes are very high.
Third, this was a different book for me. I've read several books set during WWI and other wars. I've read books about serving at the front and about staying at home. But I'm an American and most of the books I've read have been about the American experience. This is a Canadian book and thus follows the fortunes of the United Kingdom and Canada. Thus I got to learn a bit more about the Great War!
Overall, an excellent mix of the serious with the humorous to leaven the tense parts as well as featuring a great character arc and some history lessons.
I really enjoyed reading this from the perspective of Rilla. It gave a fresh, funny look at the Blythe family. While the story was horribly sad at certain points due to the war, I thought it was a great way to complete Anne's story.
emotional
reflective
Plutôt différent des sept tomes précédents, Rilla d'Ingleside nous donne un bon aperçu de ce qu'a pu être la vie dans les villages un peu partout au Canada pendant la Première Guerre mondiale! Cela a assez intrigué Gaspard aussi, qui l'écoutait souvent avec moi avant le dodo et qui a maintenant envie de lire Anne, la maison aux pignons verts, le premier et aussi le meilleur tome de la série!
This one, along with Anne's House of Dreams, are my favourite novels in this series. Rilla of Ingleside must be one of the great Canadian war novels. A novel about the people who had to stay behind, with much more to lose than those on the front lines.
NO MORE ENDINGS.
i'm done. i have reached, even by the most generous readings of my potential life span (especially taking into account how many cookies i eat and how my insides are probably pickled with a mixture of caffeine, alcohol, and raw hate), the quarter-point of my life.
AND I HAVE HAD ENOUGH ENDINGS!!!
i'm going to miss anne so much.
this is much more war novel than it is anne novel (which is a genre, to me), and there were some truly bizarre moments (a kid drowns a cat and everyone is universally like HOW CUTE), but rilla is sweet (if no anne) and this has a very cute ending and i'm going to miss this series.
and i am furious about that.
bottom line: TOO SAD!!!! make it stop!!!
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currently-reading updates
time for the grand finale.
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tbr review
gathering strength to finish this series out
i'm done. i have reached, even by the most generous readings of my potential life span (especially taking into account how many cookies i eat and how my insides are probably pickled with a mixture of caffeine, alcohol, and raw hate), the quarter-point of my life.
AND I HAVE HAD ENOUGH ENDINGS!!!
i'm going to miss anne so much.
this is much more war novel than it is anne novel (which is a genre, to me), and there were some truly bizarre moments (a kid drowns a cat and everyone is universally like HOW CUTE), but rilla is sweet (if no anne) and this has a very cute ending and i'm going to miss this series.
and i am furious about that.
bottom line: TOO SAD!!!! make it stop!!!
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currently-reading updates
time for the grand finale.
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tbr review
gathering strength to finish this series out
One of the strongest in the series, in my opinion. Rilla's transformation from a silly, superficially-minded young teen, to a compassionate and selfless young woman is the spine of this story that spans the years of WWI. Once again, LM Montgomery gives us secondary characters that add depth, and often humor, to the story, all the while continuing to expand the dimension of the characters we know so well. What a terrific series!
