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melojgriff 's review for:
Anne's House of Dreams
by L.M. Montgomery
"Anne's House of Dreams" was among my favourites of the Anne books. Montgomery gives the reader all the satisfaction of Gilbert and Anne finally building their life together after four books of building it up and waiting. Anne is still quirky Anne but suffers tragedy as well, which gives her character a little more depth.
I was particularly drawn to the setting and symbolism of the lighthouse. The sea is such an interesting setting to me. It invokes adventure, the ebb and flow of life, stagnancy as the water freezes over in winter, the lighthouse bringing lost souls home. I also LOVED Captain Jim. I wasn't a huge fan of a lot of the secondary characters in "Anne of the Island" and "Anne of Windy Poplars," but Montgomery really created a secondary character here that you can't help but fall in love with.
One thing I didn't like about the book, however, was how self-deprecating Anne was about the prospect of writing Captain Jim's Life-book. She immediately flitted away her writing as the stuff of fairytales and immediately didn't think she was capable. I would have much preferred seeing Anne write the Life-book than some stranger from out of town who didn't really know Captain Jim at all.
I hope to see Anne get back into her writing in the upcoming books and see that confidence in her that is so prevalent in her schoolgirl days.
I was particularly drawn to the setting and symbolism of the lighthouse. The sea is such an interesting setting to me. It invokes adventure, the ebb and flow of life, stagnancy as the water freezes over in winter, the lighthouse bringing lost souls home. I also LOVED Captain Jim. I wasn't a huge fan of a lot of the secondary characters in "Anne of the Island" and "Anne of Windy Poplars," but Montgomery really created a secondary character here that you can't help but fall in love with.
One thing I didn't like about the book, however, was how self-deprecating Anne was about the prospect of writing Captain Jim's Life-book. She immediately flitted away her writing as the stuff of fairytales and immediately didn't think she was capable. I would have much preferred seeing Anne write the Life-book than some stranger from out of town who didn't really know Captain Jim at all.
I hope to see Anne get back into her writing in the upcoming books and see that confidence in her that is so prevalent in her schoolgirl days.