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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
“The first star is always a miracle.”
Anne of Ingleside is more about Ingleside than it is about Anne. This book reads like a series of short stories about the Blythe children and their adventures.
Unfortunately, I don't care about the Blythe children and their adventures aren't interesting.
The parts that I like, are about Anne, from a hilarious matchmaking attempt to an amusing obituary writing request which doesn't end up quite as expected.
The last story is my favourite part of Anne of Ingleside because I prefer Anne when she isn't being perfect and matronly. This story deals with the doubts that come with a long-term marriage and Anne's feelings of monotony and jealousy is realistic.
Once again, this book is a product of its time and there is also so much fat shaming.
It looks like the next two books are going to focus more on the Blythe children and I'm not sure how to feel about it.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Honestly I was so bored reading this book. I loved the first book it was so magical and fun reading about her everyday life. I just don’t care about this annoying old lady, they can’t have any pets cause the dog dies or doesn’t love them, her daughter threw a cake in the water cause it’s embarrassing to walk around with a cake, boring dinner parties, kids being kids telling lies that you were swapped at birth, kids running away from a sleepover cause they are worried mom might die. Anne’s match making is always amusing though. And switching to the kids pov was very jarring. Book 6 and for the first time ever we see a new pov. It picked up for me again when the story was more focused on Anne and her marriage problems that where’s actually a problem.
Idk it’s a classic book that my mom and aunt loved so I feel bad not liking it. It’s definitely a classic for a reason it’s just not for me. Will I finish this series though? Yes
At least we didn’t hear like a man every 10 seconds.
Idk it’s a classic book that my mom and aunt loved so I feel bad not liking it. It’s definitely a classic for a reason it’s just not for me. Will I finish this series though? Yes
At least we didn’t hear like a man every 10 seconds.
While I was reading this book, I wasn't sure why I wasn't enjoying it quite as much as the others in the series. Not that I was annoyed at Anne, like I was when reading Anne of the Island. Not that I disliked some of the main characters, like I did with Miss Lavender in Anne of Avonlea. I'd just put the book down and not really feel the need to pick it up right away. Was I feeling Anne fatigue? Nope. I think the problem is that the book hardly focuses on Anne at all. It's more about her 6(!) kids with Gilbert. Some of the kid stories are delightful. I was particularly fond of anything with Walter. But the book really shines when Anne is front and center. I know that the last two books of the series aren't really about Anne either, so I'm wondering how I'll feel about them.
Não estou preparada para me despedir de Anne. ?
Comecei a ler os livros por causa da série. Fiquei feliz pela fidelidade de algumas partes e extremamente descontente por tramas boas da série nem existirem no livro, mas entendi bem os motivos.
Cada livro despertou em mim uma emoção distinta e foi muito bom acompanhar tudo isso. Ver Anne envelhecer e amadurecer, ver o quanto ela mereceu tudo o que conquistou. Felizmente amei os filhos dela e já quero ler os livros que faltam, mas já sabendo que não terei tanto da querida Anne.
Comecei a ler os livros por causa da série. Fiquei feliz pela fidelidade de algumas partes e extremamente descontente por tramas boas da série nem existirem no livro, mas entendi bem os motivos.
Cada livro despertou em mim uma emoção distinta e foi muito bom acompanhar tudo isso. Ver Anne envelhecer e amadurecer, ver o quanto ela mereceu tudo o que conquistou. Felizmente amei os filhos dela e já quero ler os livros que faltam, mas já sabendo que não terei tanto da querida Anne.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
7/14: i have a clear memory of reading this at one of my brother’s soccer games in 2017 and i think i journaled about it too im sure of it that was when i religiously journaled every day where did THAT go that ended last year. a disproportionate amount of my journal entries contained references to Anne books. also this one is the most pristine of my Anne books meaning there are no major spine creases let’s go
- yeehee here we go
- a visit to Avonlea to start things off because these things are never forgotten <3 aww Anne Cordelia I honestly forgot about her existence I feel like for some undefinable reason out of the mentioned Wright kids Jack is the only one I’ve ever remembered at any given point in time (sometimes I’m like SHAME that we never rly got to know that much about Diana after she married and her kids and then I kind of agree with the people who don’t like the series after the first three like it would’ve been fun although obviously I am of the opinion that it makes sense)
- ellipses time we are SOO back (tracking Maud’s writing habits by how often she uses ellipses kinda wild this and Avonlea were written 20 years apart)
- AUNT MARY MARIA NOOOOO
- i know perfectly well why i’ve never been able to imitate Maud’s writing … it’s not because of the fragmented phrases Lord knows I have enough of those myself it is literally just because i do NOT see the world as Anne does in all its hues and glories and i WISH i did (why isn’t “do” grammatical there it should be) chat maybe i pull a Thoreau and jus kinda go hang out alone in the woods ? i want to write like Maud help (UTDB staring daggers at me from buried google docs rn teehee)
- Ingleside my beloved… guys after I saw the listing of the Real ingleside by the Montgomery family I lost it bc like. IT EXISTS. IT’S REAL. AND THEY’RE SELLING IT FOR 900K CAD. WHAT!!!!!! sobbing also it helped me imagine the Actual Thing i literally could not picture it like ever and it made me sad (me when i am bad at mapping things out). also Lone Willow Farm is a cute name and on the topic of trees you are attached to i am greatly attached to the cherry blossom tree outside my guest room window my beloved
- ah yes back to the post-war “war is a thing of the past” aggressive foreshadowing thank you Maud this book is wild for its foreshadowing coughwaltercough i remember THAT
- Rainbow Valley was known as The Hollow first WHAT I have NO memory of this LMAO that’s crazyyyy it’s always been Rainbow Valley to me
- the little kids SOBBB Walter calling Gog and Magog “God and My God” is ICONIC
- guys the Aunt Mary Maria saga is absolutely BRUTAL in retrospect lmao literally what is happeninggg this is awful Susan is so real and right for all her thoughts and feelings here wowzers
- awhhhh Walter at Lowbridge and Walter characteristics in general I scream < girl who has never really gotten over reading Rilla at the tender age of ten . also yeeaowww of all the antics in this book I have not remembered the Lowbridge episode with the kids. kids are MEANNN and i love kids too but it do be a fact. RILLA TIME!!!!
- Little Elizabeth & Rebecca Dew!!
- chat i am reading wayyyy too much into things Anne’s talking about short-lived poppies and ofc you know exactfly what i thought of EL EM AY OH sigh
- pleaseeee the things the Blythe and Ford kids got up to. me when I also forgot about that. OH NAHHHHHH DUDE LITERALLY WHOOO GAVE ME A PENCIL i wrote “this again halp” next to the bit where Leslie thinks that earth isn’t Walter’s habitat YELL
- Anne matchmaking arc returns we’re SOO BACK LETS GO I personally think there’s something really funny about the matchmaking. oh hi Jen Pringle!!! OH I FORGOT THAT THIS HAS SUCH A FUNNY ENDING OH ANNE LMAOOO THE BEST OF INTENTIONS I remembered halfway through help. ok I lowkey like old misogynist Chase a bit just because his cat’s named Thomas the Rhymer also he’s kinda funny unfortunately. oh i cannot believe it i would like to repeat my rhetorical question from the p revious point… WHO LET ME WRITE IN BOOKS LMFAO there’s just a big “NO” next to Mr Chase messing with Miss Cornelia about evolution. oh my word. i cannot. the matchmaking arc is absolutely hilarious i was so right.
- awwww Gyp! sob
- “YOU ARE A TRANSUBSTANTIATIONALIST” HOWLING i had to triple check how that was spelled ngl bro just accused him of being Catholic sCREAM
- LA MO PEOPLE naming their kids after Gilbert is funny
- “suppose God forgot to let the sun rise!!” and “I do not stab sharks”
- crying Mrs. Mitchell
- hehe here is the naming of Rainbow Valley for real also aw Rilla’s lisp lmao. Jem fighting for Walter <3
- aauhguhgsdhdfhj Jem and his dogs sob
- aww little Nan and her bargains with God chat the anecdotes (wrong word y/n) in this book are SO funny from an adult perspective but also just so right for these Blythe kids yk
- aAHFJLHFD Jenny Penny scream idk like these are silly wild adventures but also. those kids… feelsbadman. WHAT a family to be in.
- help not Susan being like “yea but we don’t know anything about their families why invite them” also her inner monologue is Very much that one story in TBAQ about the wedding LMAOAOAO
- “she ought not to rejoice until she found out whether her baby was elected or not” SOBBING. shoutout to Myra Murray. Walter hearing all of this from his hiding spot is beyond funny.
- also i Wish i had this kind of imagination all these kids have my imagination consisted of the most outlandish story scenarios imaginable it is a wonder i cant write given the things i came up with (the RA Maryland thing still haunts me fr) but reading ab Walter and Nan’s fancies is SO wild to me Nan’s GLOOMY HOUSE is so very very Anne and also I think it’s funny the twins take so much after their namesakes but also the GLOOMY HOUSE is also Emily somehow LMAO so yeah Nan was clearly set up to be another Anne and Di another Diana but we simply stopped getting them after RV - oh wow sudden timeskip in ch33 we be wilding. also the casual cruelty of a lot of these stories did NOTTT register in my 10 year old brain so i am kinda shocked
- LMAOO aw little Rilla HELP WHEJRE’D KEN COME FROM
- oh TRUE TO FORM there is no Shirley story ripbozo
- guys i Honestly fully forgot most of these personality traits istg i need to stop thinking about Rilla of Ingleside specifically this is so embarrassing
- OH DELILAH also yeah oh gosh the kids they don’t really know about Anne’s childhood,,, yeesh. I mean like how do you really well and truly explain that at this age + Anne doesn’t like talking about it in general so Makes Sense but ouch. Di being SOOO dramatic here with her ITALICS is sending me. I guess Di and Rilla have more in common than red hair and being Walter’s confidant!!!!
- also wowzers yah Ingleside has had a lot of pets beyond Jack Frost and Dog Monday i forgot about
- oh Anne :( finally a character in your own story except it is extremely bad and awful and terrible. this is an absolutely wild bit because it is so actually ROUGH it’s beyond all the crazy funny silly things in this book also this IS still an Anne of ___ book skull
- if i say “also” one more time ill scream but ALSO!! this Christine is v different from Gilbert’s casual “she was one of the nicest girls I ever knew” in Island. and I have always been deeply dismayed to share a name with her. this part is painful. typo in my copy on p268.
- chat this is so romantic LET’S GO i have a newfound appreciation for Shirbert for real
- NOOOOO THE CROSS ABOVE WALTER’S BED MAUD WHY the straight reference to Courcelette I’d FORGOTTEN ABOUT TAHT
- dont rly have a soapbox here. i just think this is a fun? book but both this and windy poplars seem more short-story collection than the others + im beginning to realize i greatly miss Redmond Anne & Gilbert too LMAO oh how the tables turn. it is a little crazy how it’s just episodic Blythe kids until the end when Anne Finally becomes the focus of a book named after her. Susan, however, is the crowning glory and will continue to be
- yeehee here we go
- a visit to Avonlea to start things off because these things are never forgotten <3 aww Anne Cordelia I honestly forgot about her existence I feel like for some undefinable reason out of the mentioned Wright kids Jack is the only one I’ve ever remembered at any given point in time (sometimes I’m like SHAME that we never rly got to know that much about Diana after she married and her kids and then I kind of agree with the people who don’t like the series after the first three like it would’ve been fun although obviously I am of the opinion that it makes sense)
- ellipses time we are SOO back (tracking Maud’s writing habits by how often she uses ellipses kinda wild this and Avonlea were written 20 years apart)
- AUNT MARY MARIA NOOOOO
- i know perfectly well why i’ve never been able to imitate Maud’s writing … it’s not because of the fragmented phrases Lord knows I have enough of those myself it is literally just because i do NOT see the world as Anne does in all its hues and glories and i WISH i did (why isn’t “do” grammatical there it should be) chat maybe i pull a Thoreau and jus kinda go hang out alone in the woods ? i want to write like Maud help (UTDB staring daggers at me from buried google docs rn teehee)
- Ingleside my beloved… guys after I saw the listing of the Real ingleside by the Montgomery family I lost it bc like. IT EXISTS. IT’S REAL. AND THEY’RE SELLING IT FOR 900K CAD. WHAT!!!!!! sobbing also it helped me imagine the Actual Thing i literally could not picture it like ever and it made me sad (me when i am bad at mapping things out). also Lone Willow Farm is a cute name and on the topic of trees you are attached to i am greatly attached to the cherry blossom tree outside my guest room window my beloved
- ah yes back to the post-war “war is a thing of the past” aggressive foreshadowing thank you Maud this book is wild for its foreshadowing coughwaltercough i remember THAT
- Rainbow Valley was known as The Hollow first WHAT I have NO memory of this LMAO that’s crazyyyy it’s always been Rainbow Valley to me
- the little kids SOBBB Walter calling Gog and Magog “God and My God” is ICONIC
- guys the Aunt Mary Maria saga is absolutely BRUTAL in retrospect lmao literally what is happeninggg this is awful Susan is so real and right for all her thoughts and feelings here wowzers
- awhhhh Walter at Lowbridge and Walter characteristics in general I scream < girl who has never really gotten over reading Rilla at the tender age of ten . also yeeaowww of all the antics in this book I have not remembered the Lowbridge episode with the kids. kids are MEANNN and i love kids too but it do be a fact. RILLA TIME!!!!
- Little Elizabeth & Rebecca Dew!!
- chat i am reading wayyyy too much into things Anne’s talking about short-lived poppies and ofc you know exactfly what i thought of EL EM AY OH sigh
- pleaseeee the things the Blythe and Ford kids got up to. me when I also forgot about that. OH NAHHHHHH DUDE LITERALLY WHOOO GAVE ME A PENCIL i wrote “this again halp” next to the bit where Leslie thinks that earth isn’t Walter’s habitat YELL
- Anne matchmaking arc returns we’re SOO BACK LETS GO I personally think there’s something really funny about the matchmaking. oh hi Jen Pringle!!! OH I FORGOT THAT THIS HAS SUCH A FUNNY ENDING OH ANNE LMAOOO THE BEST OF INTENTIONS I remembered halfway through help. ok I lowkey like old misogynist Chase a bit just because his cat’s named Thomas the Rhymer also he’s kinda funny unfortunately. oh i cannot believe it i would like to repeat my rhetorical question from the p revious point… WHO LET ME WRITE IN BOOKS LMFAO there’s just a big “NO” next to Mr Chase messing with Miss Cornelia about evolution. oh my word. i cannot. the matchmaking arc is absolutely hilarious i was so right.
- awwww Gyp! sob
- “YOU ARE A TRANSUBSTANTIATIONALIST” HOWLING i had to triple check how that was spelled ngl bro just accused him of being Catholic sCREAM
- LA MO PEOPLE naming their kids after Gilbert is funny
- “suppose God forgot to let the sun rise!!” and “I do not stab sharks”
- crying Mrs. Mitchell
- hehe here is the naming of Rainbow Valley for real also aw Rilla’s lisp lmao. Jem fighting for Walter <3
- aauhguhgsdhdfhj Jem and his dogs sob
- aww little Nan and her bargains with God chat the anecdotes (wrong word y/n) in this book are SO funny from an adult perspective but also just so right for these Blythe kids yk
- aAHFJLHFD Jenny Penny scream idk like these are silly wild adventures but also. those kids… feelsbadman. WHAT a family to be in.
- help not Susan being like “yea but we don’t know anything about their families why invite them” also her inner monologue is Very much that one story in TBAQ about the wedding LMAOAOAO
- “she ought not to rejoice until she found out whether her baby was elected or not” SOBBING. shoutout to Myra Murray. Walter hearing all of this from his hiding spot is beyond funny.
- also i Wish i had this kind of imagination all these kids have my imagination consisted of the most outlandish story scenarios imaginable it is a wonder i cant write given the things i came up with (the RA Maryland thing still haunts me fr) but reading ab Walter and Nan’s fancies is SO wild to me Nan’s GLOOMY HOUSE is so very very Anne and also I think it’s funny the twins take so much after their namesakes but also the GLOOMY HOUSE is also Emily somehow LMAO so yeah Nan was clearly set up to be another Anne and Di another Diana but we simply stopped getting them after RV - oh wow sudden timeskip in ch33 we be wilding. also the casual cruelty of a lot of these stories did NOTTT register in my 10 year old brain so i am kinda shocked
- LMAOO aw little Rilla HELP WHEJRE’D KEN COME FROM
- oh TRUE TO FORM there is no Shirley story ripbozo
- guys i Honestly fully forgot most of these personality traits istg i need to stop thinking about Rilla of Ingleside specifically this is so embarrassing
- OH DELILAH also yeah oh gosh the kids they don’t really know about Anne’s childhood,,, yeesh. I mean like how do you really well and truly explain that at this age + Anne doesn’t like talking about it in general so Makes Sense but ouch. Di being SOOO dramatic here with her ITALICS is sending me. I guess Di and Rilla have more in common than red hair and being Walter’s confidant!!!!
- also wowzers yah Ingleside has had a lot of pets beyond Jack Frost and Dog Monday i forgot about
- oh Anne :( finally a character in your own story except it is extremely bad and awful and terrible. this is an absolutely wild bit because it is so actually ROUGH it’s beyond all the crazy funny silly things in this book also this IS still an Anne of ___ book skull
- if i say “also” one more time ill scream but ALSO!! this Christine is v different from Gilbert’s casual “she was one of the nicest girls I ever knew” in Island. and I have always been deeply dismayed to share a name with her. this part is painful. typo in my copy on p268.
- chat this is so romantic LET’S GO i have a newfound appreciation for Shirbert for real
- NOOOOO THE CROSS ABOVE WALTER’S BED MAUD WHY the straight reference to Courcelette I’d FORGOTTEN ABOUT TAHT
- dont rly have a soapbox here. i just think this is a fun? book but both this and windy poplars seem more short-story collection than the others + im beginning to realize i greatly miss Redmond Anne & Gilbert too LMAO oh how the tables turn. it is a little crazy how it’s just episodic Blythe kids until the end when Anne Finally becomes the focus of a book named after her. Susan, however, is the crowning glory and will continue to be
*4.5
Oh, my heart! It's not that it was broken, but Anne's so grown up and her kids are getting so big and I know this series can't go on too much longer! I'm also fearing for the next few books because of one little line of foreshadowing and the fact that Marilla and Mrs. Lynde can't survive for forever... but I adored this book for the most part. Nan reminded me of Anne as a girl and all the children were absolutely precious... I can't wait to continue this wonderful journey but I'm pacing myself because I very well may cry when this precious series is over. 10+
Oh, my heart! It's not that it was broken, but Anne's so grown up and her kids are getting so big and I know this series can't go on too much longer! I'm also fearing for the next few books because of one little line of foreshadowing and the fact that Marilla and Mrs. Lynde can't survive for forever... but I adored this book for the most part. Nan reminded me of Anne as a girl and all the children were absolutely precious... I can't wait to continue this wonderful journey but I'm pacing myself because I very well may cry when this precious series is over. 10+
funny
lighthearted
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:
No
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Any time spent with Anne and her family is time delightfully spent, ESPECIALLY through Maud's whimsical and wonder-filled eyes. ❤️