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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
2019 - This series truly is a classic. Each time I read it, I glean something new. This year's favorite quote - "Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different - something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth" (108).
2016 - I love reading these novels back to back! I don't think I've read so many of them in such a short time before but it is wonderful watching Anne mature into a lovely young lady.
2016 - I love reading these novels back to back! I don't think I've read so many of them in such a short time before but it is wonderful watching Anne mature into a lovely young lady.
Love, love, love! This book has so many magical little moments in it. "I have really learned to look at each little hinderance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory." ..."We mustn't let next week rob of us this week's joys."
Things aren't always "sunbursts and marble halls" in this book. Anne takes part in chloroforming a cat, is humiliated by a baking powder company, and at times has her own streaks of cruel thoughts and/or actions towards people she doesn't see as kindred spirits. Her college life has its ups and downs of drama, and is beautifully interwoven with scenes of beloved Avonlea.
Anne is not perfect, but she is perfectly charming, and I adore this book.
Things aren't always "sunbursts and marble halls" in this book. Anne takes part in chloroforming a cat, is humiliated by a baking powder company, and at times has her own streaks of cruel thoughts and/or actions towards people she doesn't see as kindred spirits. Her college life has its ups and downs of drama, and is beautifully interwoven with scenes of beloved Avonlea.
Anne is not perfect, but she is perfectly charming, and I adore this book.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This has the same funny dialog and characters as the other books, but little plot (not that any of them have much of a plot that lasts longer than 3 chapters). The plot of this book has been hanging around for 3 books now (Gilbert) and it's, frankly, quite old and tired. The plot advances in this book, in part by 6+ people proposing to Anne and her treating each and every man cruelly and heartlessly. So she lost all sympathy from me, as a man. Perhaps a woman would be quicker to forgive her not seeing it as much from the man's point of view. Whatever the case, I found that I no longer liked Anne and could care less about her and her future story.
I'm at the point in the semester when I get back on my Anne of Green Gables audiobook grind!
I haven’t had the time to commit to a book in a minute so I audio-booked this with what is technically a sleep podcast and honestly that’s the best way to experience this delightful book. I was worried this wouldn’t have the same charm as the first story that I’m nostalgic for, but it does!! At times this was one of the sweetest and happiest books I’ve ever read, and then now and then it just hits you with these tragic moments about aging and death it’s crazy!
I laughed, I cried, there was very little conflict - great!
It’s college propaganda, I want nothing more than to live with Anne and her friends at Patty’s Place :’)
Speaking of Anne, she gets proposed to like six?? times?? go off!!
Philippa Gordon is my favorite character maybe ever. She’s iconic and perfect and I love her
HOWEVER, Anne’s quirky adventures are consistently interrupted by Davy Chapters which I do not care for I’m sorry child
I haven’t had the time to commit to a book in a minute so I audio-booked this with what is technically a sleep podcast and honestly that’s the best way to experience this delightful book. I was worried this wouldn’t have the same charm as the first story that I’m nostalgic for, but it does!! At times this was one of the sweetest and happiest books I’ve ever read, and then now and then it just hits you with these tragic moments about aging and death it’s crazy!
I laughed, I cried, there was very little conflict - great!
It’s college propaganda, I want nothing more than to live with Anne and her friends at Patty’s Place :’)
Speaking of Anne, she gets proposed to like six?? times?? go off!!
Philippa Gordon is my favorite character maybe ever. She’s iconic and perfect and I love her
HOWEVER, Anne’s quirky adventures are consistently interrupted by Davy Chapters which I do not care for I’m sorry child
Lo único que diré es que la reseña final de esta saga, tendrá como 846474839338 palabras de todo lo que me encantó, avergonzó y amo de esta saga
"Friends! Your friendship can't satisfy me Anne!"
I take back what I said in my review of Anne of Avonlea. I think THIS is my favorite Anne book. I've read it once before but it was so long ago and I really didn't remember much of it except that this was the book where Anne and Gilbert finally come together. I loved that part of it again, of course, but there was also something else special about this book. I feel like Anne grows and changes so much in this book (in a good way), it feels more like a coming of age story than the first two.
I love the friends she has at Redmond, especially Phil, and I love the time they spend at Patty's Place. Each of her failed proposals make me laugh as they sort of burst her bubble of the ideal romance, but each of those experiences ultimately help her to realize her love for Gilbert. In this book she visits the home she was born in, and she reads the love letters of her parents and feels that for the first time she is not an orphan.
But, the most beautiful, and to me most important, chapter in the book is when Anne has her last conversation with Ruby Gillis. Their talk about death and heaven, and Ruby's fear that it will be so different from what she is used to, was one of the best things I have read in a long time. Anne's realization that Ruby has in a sense wasted her talents is so moving. "There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable." Anne's thoughts on heaven as she tries to comfort Ruby are so real and beautiful, "I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here--and be ourselves just the same--only it will be easier to be good and to--follow the highest. All the hinderances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly."
I'm so glad I decided to read these books again. The simplicity of the life and times, and feeling like I'm learning these lessons all over again as Anne learns them for the first time has been so sweet.
I take back what I said in my review of Anne of Avonlea. I think THIS is my favorite Anne book. I've read it once before but it was so long ago and I really didn't remember much of it except that this was the book where Anne and Gilbert finally come together. I loved that part of it again, of course, but there was also something else special about this book. I feel like Anne grows and changes so much in this book (in a good way), it feels more like a coming of age story than the first two.
I love the friends she has at Redmond, especially Phil, and I love the time they spend at Patty's Place. Each of her failed proposals make me laugh as they sort of burst her bubble of the ideal romance, but each of those experiences ultimately help her to realize her love for Gilbert. In this book she visits the home she was born in, and she reads the love letters of her parents and feels that for the first time she is not an orphan.
But, the most beautiful, and to me most important, chapter in the book is when Anne has her last conversation with Ruby Gillis. Their talk about death and heaven, and Ruby's fear that it will be so different from what she is used to, was one of the best things I have read in a long time. Anne's realization that Ruby has in a sense wasted her talents is so moving. "There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable." Anne's thoughts on heaven as she tries to comfort Ruby are so real and beautiful, "I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here--and be ourselves just the same--only it will be easier to be good and to--follow the highest. All the hinderances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly."
I'm so glad I decided to read these books again. The simplicity of the life and times, and feeling like I'm learning these lessons all over again as Anne learns them for the first time has been so sweet.
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I think perhaps as I’ve grown and aged, read these books and become to know Anne, it’s a representation of life in your early 20s. I’ve struggled with growing up but then I read a book from 110 years ago and realise it will always be like this till the end of humanity. We will struggle but that makes it worth it.
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-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