pietrog9 's review for:

Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

3.0

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Not my favorite of the series, and it's a bit of a stretch that this is called *Anne* of Ingleside, since most of the novel is about the children in the family. Anne floats around in the background, then comes in at the end of each episode to console the child and set things right. It's all very episodic, as the novels in this series tend to be, but this time there really isn't any forward movement at all, just a string of incidents in which the kids are picked on by other, meaner and less sensitive children. And I hate to say it, but Anne and her kids are, well, pretty snobbish, and awfully bourgeois. The poorer characters they run across are invariably stupid and/or venal; every character, especially the girls and women, are judged on their physically attractiveness; and fat people are always called out for their size.