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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
I never got past "Anne of Avonlea" as a child. Reading these books as an adult is a treat. Light and sweet.
I think this is one of my most favorite books in the Anne of Green Gables series. All the feels!
I'm going to give this a favourable rating, because as usual I did like some of the personage L.M. Montgomery created - but honestly didn't enjoy the book as much as the others.
This may be my favorite band of minor characters yet- all of them were delightful! I also love that Anne’s character gained some depth that comes with experiencing sorrow and difficulties.
This was definitely better than Windy Poplars, but not quite as good as the first three.
This is my umpteenth time reading this story. And each time I love it a little more. I discover something new every time I reread it. This is arguably tied for my favourite in the series along with the first one. It just makes me so happy and always comforts me.
Oof, this one got heavy. But Anne is just so utterly charming and so unlike myself, I can't help but love her and these stories.
FIRST THOUGHTS: Quite a chapter in Anne's life! I loved the little house, and the characters that filled Anne & Gilbert's life there. It's definitely got the same imagination as the first of this series, but there's an air of adulthood to it.
I quite enjoyed this one. Lots of parts that made me giggle out loud because of Captain Jim and Cornelia. A number of scenes that made me tear up. I liked the smaller cast in this work and that Anne didn’t fix everyone’s lives.
As usual, I love L.M. Montgomery and her extraordinary depictions of ordinary life. I found the descriptions of baby hunger and Anne's feelings and development after the loss of Joy particularly poignant, and I was happy that Gilbert had a personality in this one. Every major character in this book was really interesting to me. My least favorite part was how Jim, at least, seemed to discredit Anne's early life as "not a tragedy." Anne may have had her "this is the worst thing ever" experience when she lost Joy, but I think it's safe to say that her early life was a tragedy, and it isn't really fair to say that Anne couldn't understand Leslie at all because Anne hadn't experienced tragedy. The types of tragedy were just different. Even if Anne had never suffered, it probably isn't fair to claim that she couldn't be adequately empathetic. It's also interesting to me that Anne's pain was discussed as not comparing to Leslie's when it was talked about as helping her relate to Katherine in Windy Poplars.