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A review by ketutar
Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
3.0
reread of 2020
I think I'll stop here this year.
There are too many disappointments here.
"Nan is deceived by a lying schoolchild into thinking that she was actually switched at birth; Walter is convinced by a school chum that his mother is dying; and Di gets two stories, in both of which she makes friends with schoolgirls who deceive her. In other stories, oldest child Jem deals with the loss of a pet, and youngest child Rilla somehow gets the idea that it is shameful to be seen carrying a cake, and goes to great lengths to avoid doing so"
I hate aunt Mary Maria. Good intention misunderstood, and your explanation not believed is one of my hate tropes.
I don't want Anne to believe even for a second that Gilbert doesn't love her.
The funeral story was horrifying.
Right now I can't even remember any lovely stories here. There is promise of great stories, but...
I can't see why Lucy Maud decided to make all the village kids horrible. The Blythe kids' friends are Leslie and Owen's children, and then the Merediths, and neither lives in the village in this book. Where's Diana, Ilse, Teddy, Perry, Jingle and Bets, Jody, or the other friends from other books?
So, rather depressing. Though not as depressing as what's to follow...
I think I'll stop here this year.
There are too many disappointments here.
"Nan is deceived by a lying schoolchild into thinking that she was actually switched at birth; Walter is convinced by a school chum that his mother is dying; and Di gets two stories, in both of which she makes friends with schoolgirls who deceive her. In other stories, oldest child Jem deals with the loss of a pet, and youngest child Rilla somehow gets the idea that it is shameful to be seen carrying a cake, and goes to great lengths to avoid doing so"
I hate aunt Mary Maria. Good intention misunderstood, and your explanation not believed is one of my hate tropes.
I don't want Anne to believe even for a second that Gilbert doesn't love her.
The funeral story was horrifying.
Right now I can't even remember any lovely stories here. There is promise of great stories, but...
I can't see why Lucy Maud decided to make all the village kids horrible. The Blythe kids' friends are Leslie and Owen's children, and then the Merediths, and neither lives in the village in this book. Where's Diana, Ilse, Teddy, Perry, Jingle and Bets, Jody, or the other friends from other books?
So, rather depressing. Though not as depressing as what's to follow...