kmcquage 's review for:

The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery

4.0

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If you've only ever read Anne, this probably isn't going to do it for you. If you've read a lot of her other works, and the short stories, this fits right in. I had already read the 1974 abridged edition of this (The Road to Yesterday) so I appreciated the interleaving of poetry and Blythe vignettes. The stories are on the darker end, but not that much darker than some of the other short stories in other collections. Do note that, like the Chronicles of Avonlea, the stories are not about Anne and her family, but rather about other local characters, and the Blythes pop up as minor dialogue at best.