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Dec 16, 2009

k8lane rated it:

This is the final book of the Anne series, and deals with the lives of her children. While it's wonderful to see characters evolve into adulthood and have a next generation come to life, the real strength of this book is it's window into the homeland society of rural Maritime Canada during the first World War. It's one of few documentations (even if the characters are fictional) of what women were doing at home during the war, and this setting breathes new life into the end of the series. The se More...

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Aug 04, 2007

Maria rated it:

"'Is it Rilla my Rilla?'
Yeth."

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Sep 14, 2007

Kelly rated it:

This is probably my favorite of the Anne books. I love watching Rilla mature into a young woman, and I think the romance betwen Rilla and Ken Ford is one of the best in kidlit.

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Dec 16, 2009

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My faaaaavorite Ann book--it focuses on her youngest child, Rilla, and it's set during WWI (the series is set in Canada, who entered the war with England, so it was a much longer and painful ordeal for them than for the US). Rilla is a silly young 15 year old when the war begins--by the end she's an amazing and strong woman. This book is wonderful! I'm regularly tearing up on my lunchbreak reading this one.

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May 19, 2008

Lesli rated it:

This was my favorite up with the first and second books in the series. I couldn't really say it was better than those, but it is pretty much a completely different story, so it can't really be compared. I really enjoyed reading it. I thought it gave a really good reading experience of what it would have been like to be a woman during WWI. I thought it would be an excellent book to read for a kid, because it doesn't give gruesome nightmare details of war, but it does a good job to showing wh More...

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Jun 03, 2008

Leah rated it:

YAWN....

Honestly, I have lost patience with this series. I think the straw that broke the camel's back was when Marilla's death is merely glanced over in one...count it, ONE...sentence. I want to hear about Avonlea. I miss the romance and the scenery and the people of Avonlea. This is no longer the Anne of Green Gables series, it is the "Anne's Kids and their Friends" series.

Perhaps it's because I neglected to read these stories when I was younger, sort of More...

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Jan 15, 2009

Salma rated it:

Maybe I shouldn't star this at all, because as a kid, I never finished it. After Anne of the Island, the series really began to drag for me, as much as I love LM Montgomery.

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Jan 20, 2009

Allie rated it:

'Rilla of Ingleside' is my favourite of the 'Anne' series, it's even better than the internationally-beloved 'Anne of Green Gables'. That's my opinion, anyway! It features Rilla [short for Marilla:], Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, and her trials throughout WWI, when two of her brothers and the young man she cares for go off to war. Poignantly written, never dismissing hardship, heartbreak, love, and the more common of adolescent strifes such as rivalries and embarassments, 'Rilla of Ingle More...

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Apr 23, 2008

Elizabeth rated it:

What made the Anne series so enjoyable was that Anne was a very three-dimensional character. She had spunk, she was stubborn, she was whimsical, she knew how to love and she knew what loss was. Rilla is not a three-dimensional character, or at least not to the same extent that her mother was. It's been ages since I read these books, and maybe I'd enjoy this one more if I were to read it again as an adult, but by the time I get through Anne of Ingleside, I'm so entirely fed up with the series More...

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Nov 10, 2011

K. rated it:

This was, by far, the best of the series after "Anne of Green Gables." Well, it might be, in form and substance, even better than that one, but nothing can quite trump Anne herself.

By this time, Anne is not even Anne anymore, she is always and only Mrs. Blythe with small significance. But though Montgomery hasn't created a character to replace Anne in any of the latter novels, she created some great ones, the housekeeper, Susan, probably being my very favorite.

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Jul 07, 2011

Audrey rated it:

In 277 pages, L.M. Montgomery seals her 8-book "Anne of Green Gables" series with a beautiful story of growth and character. Set around World War 1, this book centers on Rilla (Anne's youngest daughter) and the Blythe family's life in Canada.

Rilla starts out a carefree, lighthearted, emotional, shallow 14-year-old, extremely focused on having as much fun as possible. However, World War 1 begins before Rilla's years of fun can. Through four years of trials and hardship, Rill More...

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Mar 19, 2011

Kate rated it:

This review is specifically for the new 2010 Penguin Canada edition 978-0-670-06519-6 with an intro and glossary and the inclusion of the text that has been missing in editions published since the mid-seventies. Benjamin LeFebvre and Andrea McKenzie have added some great background about WWI in Canada, the place of this particular book in WWI literature, and notes about many of the literary references. And that's great. But even better is reading the missing text. I was expecting that what w More...

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Feb 21, 2011

Lindsay rated it:

This is the book that finally severed my relationship with Kevin Sullivan. When Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story premiered in the early 2000s, I was shocked to discover that Anne and Gilbert were suddenly time warped to WWI.

That's wrong. On so many levels.

WWI wasn't Anne's war, it was Rilla's, and Ken's, and Walter's, and that damn dog who turns me into a gushy mess every freaking time I read the last chapter. Rilla -- the youngest child of Anne and Gilber More...

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Jul 31, 2010

Sarah rated it:

I cried. I never read this book when I was younger. I never realized that the last two books of the Anne series took a darker turn. I thought this book was lovely and was a better read, as an adult, that some of the earlier books.

This book is about war, life, and death. I thought there were some wonderful perspectives on the agony of being on the home front not knowing when much of what you can do is wait and try to help life go on.

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May 02, 2010

Susann rated it:

It was so nice to have Rilla waiting for me, as I went through my 'Anne' series re-read. I would love to take a class on WWI and have 'Rilla' as one of my texts. Because Montgomery wrote this shortly after the War ended, all the details seem so fresh and ripe for discussion: the battles, the politics, the Canadian perspective, the role of women, the emerging technologies, and - my favorite - the jingoism. It's fascinating to read Montgomery's casual mentions of bricks being thrown through window More...

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Mar 15, 2010

Avrila rated it:

It's been years since I read this series (although I read them several times and have tossed them about in my mind since then) so please bear with me if I'm a bit vague in places. I'm going to compare this book to the rest of the series, so in a way this is also going to turn out to be a review of the whole series.

In my opinion, this book holds up the best for modern readers. With two exceptions (Rilla would be in high school for most of the time of the book, and the young people's More...

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Dec 02, 2009

Christina rated it:

I've always skipped this volume of the Anne books, but when I was home in Seattle in September I didn't bring any books with me as a way to motivate myself to keep working on work stuff. But it turns out I needed some fun reading, too. I found this book in one of my old boxes and decided to give Rilla a shot. Unfortunately, I didn't like her much. :( I didn't identify with her as a character so I wasn't that interested in her adventures, and I thought some of the plot developments with her More...

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Nov 04, 2009

Lindsey rated it:

I am just finishing reading this great book. It is a sequel to Anne of Green Gables, and I love it. It is very insightful and it is one of my all-time favorites.

I have been reading the Anne of Green Gables series since my mom reccomended the first book to me. The other books are as well-written, but there seems to be something more in this book. Something that there cannot be peace always.

This book was written by L.M. Montgomery, who lived from 1874-1942. Her book takes place More...

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Dec 25, 2011

Michele rated it:

I knew what to expect going into this book, from inadvertently reading summaries. Even if I hadn't, the Pied Piper foreshadowing in Rainbow Valley, gave this last book's big development away. Even so, it was very moving. I read it during a flight and cried like a lunatic the whole plane route.

Being mostly familiar with U. S. History, it was interesting to see the war from a Canadian perspective. Susan's view on Woodrow Wilson and his love of "notes" was hilarious. It m More...

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Nov 18, 2011

Liesel rated it:

Through the wonders of Kindle, I discovered there was another book in the Anne series that I had never read as a girl.

This is the story of Anne's youngest daughter, Rilla, enduring the sorrows of WWI. She grows in maturity from ages 14-19 while raising a "war-baby," which she brings home in a soup tureen and organizing the Junior Red Cross.

"We give more than them. They only give themselves. We give them." said Rilla. This sums up existence of the w More...

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Aug 30, 2009

Erin rated it:

This is another of my favorites in the series. All of Anne's children are grown up and fifteen-year-old Rilla, the youngest of the Ingleside children, is desperately wishing everyone would think her so as well. Though it is hard to see her this way in the beginning of the book because she is rather flighty and focuses mainly on herself. Yet, when World War One breaks out, the world begins to change and Rilla begins to change with it.
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Aug 02, 2011

Sanchita added it

L. M. Montgomery bases the final book of the much loved Anne series during the Second World War. The main character in this book is Rilla, as the name suggests. All Anne's boys end up going to war along side the Meredith boys. Rilla adopts a baby and attempts to bring him up. She has also inherited her mother's matchmaking skills and helps a young couple get married before the war. She also gets engaged to Kenneth Ford.

Rilla, who is an annoying little child, becomes bearable as the book progress More...

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Dec 07, 2011

Kristin rated it:

My favourite book in the Anne of Green Gables series, interestingly, is not about Anne, but her youngest daughter, Rilla. This is one of those books that I re-read over and over again. I own two copies because they are so dog-eared and worn.

Rilla begins the book as an flighty, vain 14-year-old girl until World War One begins in August 1914. The book provides a compelling and realistic account of the hardships and sacrifices endured by Canadian women on the homefront - one of the fe More...

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Jan 24, 2011

Akiko rated it:

I've loved the Anne of Green Gables series since I was a child and like to revisit all the books now and then. I'm most familiar with, and fond of, the first three in the series, having re-read them many, many times. I haven't returned to the later books nearly as often. As Anne grew up, she seemed to lose much of her ambition and drive, which is what I admired so much about her when I was a girl, so I couldn't relate to the adult Anne as much; and the stories focusing on her children didn't see More...

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Jan 07, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

It was recently drawn to my attention by a fellow Goodreads reader that the editions of Rilla of Ingleside, for which we had become accustomed, are abridged versions of the original edition that L.M. Montgomery published. Somehow along the way, an abridged edition appeared through an Amercian publishing house and that abridged version became the standard (accidentally). As a result, I was curious to discover what jewels of Rilla of Ingleside I was missing. While, I feel self-satisfied in the kno More...

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Jul 27, 2009

Erin rated it:

It is with a bitter sweet sigh that I read the last line. It is the last of the series and I have been so charmed with this series from first to last. I thought after the first one that the next couldn't be as good, but I was happily wrong. The main characters in these books are loving, imaginative, loyal, brave, and true. Yes, they are idealistic, but that is what I want in heros/heroines-someone to admire and aspire to be like. The minor characters are written so vividly and whether they are g More...

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Nov 11, 2011

Kate rated it:

The book is a mixture of heartrending sadness and tedious boredom. I don't particularly like Rilla as a character, and I have to admit to having skim read a lot of this because she irritates me so much.

The gung-ho way in which the Ingleside boys (save Walter) decide to head off to war without really any idea of the implications of what they are in for is awful. I imagine that this is what it was really like at the time, the excitement and the patriotism of these lads all wiped out in More...

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Jun 05, 2011

Ava rated it:

Well, I was up all night finishing this through ugly-crying and laughter. They say the best books are ones that make you feel and Rilla of Ingleside did just that. The Anne series took a serious turn in the final book, this takes place during war times and shows us how the women left home lived while their husbands and sons left to serve Canada. Maud's writing seems twice as good in "Rilla" then it was before. I felt truly connected throughout the story and now I think this is one of, More...

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Jan 26, 2012

Elizabeth rated it:

This book is L.M.M. greatest book. In fact it may be one of the greatest WWI books ever. As fun and lighthearted as her other Anne books are they only have the flashes of brilliance that this book has throughout.

This book will make you cry and a few times it might make you laugh. It is about youth and love and war. It is about the end of an era and the end of the innocence with which the world viewed life.

This is the book that gave me a passion for this time period. I am writing More...

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May 19, 2011

Allison rated it:

A re-read. The WWI Anne of Green Gables book. I had totally forgotten about little Jims but of course remembered about Walter.
"It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away'".
"A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes"
"an infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too More...

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