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Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables #7)
Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her belovedGilbert and now is the mother of six mischievouschildren.
These boys and girls discover aspecial place all their own, but they never dreamof what will happen when the strangest familymoves into an old nearby mansion. The Meredith clan istwo boys and two girls, with minister father butno mother -- and a runaway girl named Mar...more
These boys and girls discover aspecial place all their own, but they never dreamof what will happen when the strangest familymoves into an old nearby mansion. The Meredith clan istwo boys and two girls, with minister father butno mother -- and a runaway girl named Mar...more
Paperback, Special Collector's Edition, 256 pages
Published
July 1st 1985
by Starfire
(first published 1919)
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The front cover is simply maddening! There are four girls, and Anne only has three, so one must be a Meredith. So which one??
The boy in the water is, I'm thinking, Shirley, and the tall one is Walter. The girl sitting is Diana.
If the girl in the blue dress holding the flowers is Rilla and the one holding the basket is Nan, or vice versa, then who is the second redhead? Rilla's hair is a softer red, and neither of the Meredith sisters has red hair.
Till my dying day I will be puzzling over this......more
The boy in the water is, I'm thinking, Shirley, and the tall one is Walter. The girl sitting is Diana.
If the girl in the blue dress holding the flowers is Rilla and the one holding the basket is Nan, or vice versa, then who is the second redhead? Rilla's hair is a softer red, and neither of the Meredith sisters has red hair.
Till my dying day I will be puzzling over this......more
When i finished this book i was just staring at the cover for 20 minutes and thinking very hard to figure out who's who! i was pretty sure the tall one is Walter and knew none of them is Jem(he has red hair). I thought maybe the standing girl with the basket is Nan Blythe(she has brown hair) and the girl standing next to hair with a dress which looks the same as Nan's is Diana( she has red hair. ) the one with the blue dress holding flowers could be Mary and the girl sitting might be Rilla.i jus...more
Anne’s kids find new playmates. Overall, a bit better than Anne of Ingleside — the Blythe kids are more interesting in this book, and the Meredith children are a lot of fun. My one major gripe is Rev. John Meredith, the severely absent-minded minister father who supposedly loves his kids but who doesn’t notice their poor food and household conditions, and on the rare occasions where he wakes up enough to notice, he doesn’t do anything about it, until he finally gets married to a woman who’ll tak...more
Buku ini saya beri bintang 3,5, dengan banyaknya hal yang membuat saya jadi terkenang2 masa kecil kembali. Masa yang indah saat bersama teman2 kami begitu bebas berlarian di tanah lapang, berbalap adu cepat di jalan dengan becak, memanjati pohon rambutan dan jamblang, bermain di pinggir empang; baik kala panas maupun hujan. Masa ketika di malam hari kami sering membuat panggung menyanyi di pinggir kompleks; bergantian menyanyikan "Berita Kepada Kawan"-nya Ebiet G. Ade atau "Anak Gembala"-nya AT....more
Apr 07, 2012
TheBookworm
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3 of 5 stars
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children-s-books
It had been years since I had read "Rainbow Valley" as I have a tendency to stop reading at "Anne of Ingleside", therefore, my memories of "Rainbow Valley" were iffy at best. However, I really enjoyed reading it this time through and was caught up by the storylines of the manse children, the two sisters who had given up on love, and the hints of what the future was to hold for Walter and the other boys.
Of course, being the Anne and Gilbert fan that I am, I would have been happy with a little le...more
Of course, being the Anne and Gilbert fan that I am, I would have been happy with a little le...more
It wasn't L.M. Montgomery's best, though still good. However, this book hardly mentioned Anne at all! And this is her series! The spotlight here was all on the Meredith children. They're fun, too, but I really wanted to know more about Anne's adventures. Or doesn't she have any anymore? And I wanted to know more about Leslie and Owen Ford and Davy and Dora and Diana and her children, but there was a bit too much Meredith children and not enough of that.
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Not as "wow" as Rilla of Ingleside (I know my vocabulary is terrible, and I read the books in the wrong order) but it's still a lovely story about children and life itself, which is wonderfully endearing in my opinion.
But it's really not fair to compare this with Book 8, because Book 8 introduces more serious themes where Rainbow Valley is significantly more light-hearted. Now that it's established, let's move on:
Well, if you're expecting to read another story about Anne, you'll be disappointed....more
But it's really not fair to compare this with Book 8, because Book 8 introduces more serious themes where Rainbow Valley is significantly more light-hearted. Now that it's established, let's move on:
Well, if you're expecting to read another story about Anne, you'll be disappointed....more
I really enjoyed this book. Even though I felt like it focused mainly on the Blythe childrens friends the Meredith's instead of the Blythe children themselves, I really enjoyed it and found they still did have a lot about the Blythe children. It had a lot of funny stories about the children and their "adventures" in Rainbow Valley, there little hide-out of sorts that they found out in the woods. Whether the adventure was about the "Good Conduct Club" were they kept themselves accountable for goo...more
This is the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series, but the Blythes are actually minor characters in this novel. The story focuses more on the widowed minister, John Meredith, and his children, especially Faith and Una. They girls are friends with the Blythe children and they all play together in a place they call Rainbow Valley.
There were so many funny misunderstandings in this one. At one point, Faith and Una get mixed up about what day of the week it is and they miss church, which c...more
There were so many funny misunderstandings in this one. At one point, Faith and Una get mixed up about what day of the week it is and they miss church, which c...more
May 31, 2013
Anne
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"Rainbow Valley" picks up in the village of Glen St.Mary, where "Anne of Ingleside" had finished.
In this sequel, we do not see much of Anne and her children, as the story is centered around a new family, the Merediths. Mr John Meredith is the new Presbyterian pastor in the village and he lives in the manse with his four children Jerry, Faith, Una and Carl, and old aunt Martha, who has taken on the responsibility of "housekeeping".
The Meredith children are truly loveable, but they are not so well...more
In this sequel, we do not see much of Anne and her children, as the story is centered around a new family, the Merediths. Mr John Meredith is the new Presbyterian pastor in the village and he lives in the manse with his four children Jerry, Faith, Una and Carl, and old aunt Martha, who has taken on the responsibility of "housekeeping".
The Meredith children are truly loveable, but they are not so well...more
For me, "Rainbow Valley" has always been the weak link in Montgomery's "Anne" books. It is more like a sequence of short stories rather than a cohesive whole, and I like her books better when there is a overall picture. Besides, I'm not fond of a few of the stories in this book. It's still L.M. Montgomery, and there's still Anne, but overall I'm not so crazy about it.
What always sticks me when I read this book is the rather pantheistic view of Montgomery. She is too taken up with the fairies and supernatural, you might say.
An example is when one of Ann's children wants to pray outside and she tell them that, that is alright because God is in everything, not everywhere but in everything.
An example is when one of Ann's children wants to pray outside and she tell them that, that is alright because God is in everything, not everywhere but in everything.
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I really liked this one. Unlike some others in the series, the stories are not random, not about people that you don't know or don't care about. The books are not about Anne anymore, and this book isn't really even about her children that much. It's about the new minister (an absent-minded, distracted widow) and his children, who love their father dearly and are trying to "bring themselves up" so as not to tarnish their father's reputation. The scrapes they get themselves into are hilarious, and...more
Again I don't think anne said more than two pages worth in this book. In fact it was mostly about a neighboring family. They were sweet and adorable and interesting but is this or is this not the anne of green gables series? I would like to know anne more now-i suppose her motherly affairs may have seemed to tedious to recount but I also would jave liked to see her be more of a heroine in this story, standing up for people and helping people instead of always just hearing about it-and with no co...more
Rereading old favourites at the moment. I enjoyed Rainbow Valley a lot more than "Anne of Ingleside". Interestingly it was written about ten years prior to "AoI" and this shows as it still has some of the tenderness that LM Montgomory exhibits in "Anne's House of Dreams". I do miss the focus on Anne though as she is very much shown as just a parent, seemingly without any thoughts or life of her own except for those of being a parent.
Anne and Gilbert's children are nowhere near as interesting as...more
Anne and Gilbert's children are nowhere near as interesting as...more
Like I always say, children are the best form of birth control. Even imaginative, sweet-natured children. Oh, lisping Rilla, being chased into the mud by a codfish-wielding Mary Vance... how I laughed uproariously over your plight, though I gathered from the soulful prose that I was meant to feel sorry for you.
Seven books in, and I can't stop wondering what Anne was like in bed. When one of her litter of six was born, L. M. Montgomery wrote of a stork depositing a bundle of baby at the Blythe re...more
Seven books in, and I can't stop wondering what Anne was like in bed. When one of her litter of six was born, L. M. Montgomery wrote of a stork depositing a bundle of baby at the Blythe re...more
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The stories of Anne of Green Gables manage to cast such a cheerful, lighthearted glow on the world. At first glance it almost seems too much, as if the characters are unbelievable because the world isn't so bright and good all the time. But L.M. Montgomery doesn't avoid writing about characters that suffer, she just refuses to dwell on the misery in life. Even characters such as Mary Vance, or Lida Marsh have a hopeful feel to them. It makes me feel like some of our authors today try too hard, s...more
Rainbow Valley presented an interesting departure from the other Anne books in the series because it wasn’t really about Anne at all. The central focus of the story was split unevenly between Anne’s children and the Meredith children. Montgomery zoned in on the Meredith children, whose mother died long ago and whose father is an absent-minded minister, resulting in them pretty much raising themselves and getting into all sorts of mischief that regularly scandalizes the community. The children fi...more
People complain that this book doesn't have enough about Anne or her family in it, but I've always kind of liked it anyway (maybe because I'm a fan of L.M. Montgomery's other books too, and not just the Anne series). Mostly, the book is about the Merediths, the children of an absent-minded widower minister. The Merediths are far more exciting characters than Anne's children (at least in this book - Rilla of Ingleside is my favorite and focuses more on Anne's brood) and I love the side story of R...more
This was my least favorite of the Anne books when I was a child, and it's obvious why, now that I've listened to it as an adult--it's not an Anne book. The Blythes are minor characters at best, and this book is really about the Merediths.
I imagine that this was a wise decision for Montgomery--by now she was probably pretty tired of writing about Anne--and maybe not yet sure about how to write about Anne as an adult and a mother, rather than as a young woman.
I'm not that fond of the Merediths, al...more
I imagine that this was a wise decision for Montgomery--by now she was probably pretty tired of writing about Anne--and maybe not yet sure about how to write about Anne as an adult and a mother, rather than as a young woman.
I'm not that fond of the Merediths, al...more
Mietin pitkään kolmen ja neljän tähden välillä, sillä vaikka kirja oli tyypilliseen Montgomeryn tapaan jälleen _maailman ihanin_, jäi odottamani ja ihailemani päähenkilö mielestäni liikaa taustalle, samoin hänen lapsensa. Sen sijaan tapahtumat keskittyivät vasta kylään muuttaneen papin perheeseen, mikä sinänsä ei myöskään ollut huono ratkaisu, vain hieman yllättävä ja irtonainen. Lopulta päädyin kuitenkin neljään tähteen, sillä kerronta, mielikuvituksekkuus ja se, että teos aiheuttaa perinteisee...more
Rainbow Valley, while published as #7 in the Anne series, was really the 5th one written, thus making this little novel more of a cohesive story line than the loose series of vignettes that Anne of Ingleside seems to be. Anne is no longer the main focus of these books -- this is rather the story of the Merediths, of both the children (who befriend Anne's children) and their father, the new Presbyterian minister. This is a delightful family, always getting into trouble while their dreamy father m...more
I didn't think I could love the rest of the Anne of Green Gables series more than I loved the first three books, but I did. These books are classics, beautifully written with outstanding imagery and description. I was looking for some nice clean reads after feeling like I'd had too much smut as of late, and the Anne of Green Gables series was just what the doctor ordered.
Anne's House of Dreams finds Anne and Gilbert newly married and moved away from Green Gables. I read a couple of reviews with...more
Anne's House of Dreams finds Anne and Gilbert newly married and moved away from Green Gables. I read a couple of reviews with...more
Ahora los Blythe fueron actores secundarios en las aventuras de los Meredith. Llegué a pensar que el libro decaería por la falta de apariciones de los Blythe, sin embargo, ha sido un libro divertido con situaciones muy entretenidas y graciosas. Los niños pueden ser un verdadero manojo de sorpresas y Montgomery parece conocer bien su manera de pensar.
Nuevamente los personajes se sintieron cercanos, aprendes a conocerlos y disfrutar de sus aventuras. Es realmente fascinante como Montgomery se da a...more
Nuevamente los personajes se sintieron cercanos, aprendes a conocerlos y disfrutar de sus aventuras. Es realmente fascinante como Montgomery se da a...more
I never liked this book when I was younger. I'd usually end up skimming through it at best whenever I'd try to read it. This time I really really enjoyed reading it. I liked the mood of the book and the fact that you were always wondering what the Meredith children were going to do next and how they were going to get out of trouble.
Also the dark foreshadowing in this book was totally lost on me. I found the book, as an adult, to be bittersweet and in some ways chilling when one considers that L....more
Also the dark foreshadowing in this book was totally lost on me. I found the book, as an adult, to be bittersweet and in some ways chilling when one considers that L....more
this book,ah well, these people- as they are real people to me by now- keep making me want to be a better person all the time,these books teach you how to live life, if not teach, it reminds you,keeps at it when you are low and cynical. these books are kind of like an extension of myself,and I believe,of ever good person on this planet. Anne even raises her children just as I thought I wanted to, after all,the goodness and good values are the same,in each era and time.
the book is very very real,...more
the book is very very real,...more
Rainbow Valley is the seventh book in the 'Anne of Green Gables' series, and is a rather different one due th the fact that Anne's children are the focus of this story. Anne does have some parts of her own, and so far, she's been a good mama, but motherhood leaves her with less time to get herself into interesting situations.
It's not just about the Blythe children, but some neighboring kids and a few adults too. There's a nice mix of stories here about various people, almost like a collection of...more
It's not just about the Blythe children, but some neighboring kids and a few adults too. There's a nice mix of stories here about various people, almost like a collection of...more
Anne Shirley has grown up, and her children and their playmates take centre stage in this instalment of the 'Anne' series.
Delightfully reminiscent of a simpler time, this book points out the failings of society, which can be seen to still apply to our time.
Though there were times in this book I found myself drifting through the description, or hating Mr Meredith, one of the main characters, and wishing he'd 'step up' to the challenges of being a father, I still enjoyed it immensely :) the end...more
Delightfully reminiscent of a simpler time, this book points out the failings of society, which can be seen to still apply to our time.
Though there were times in this book I found myself drifting through the description, or hating Mr Meredith, one of the main characters, and wishing he'd 'step up' to the challenges of being a father, I still enjoyed it immensely :) the end...more
Rainbow Valley is very similar to its predecessor, Anne of Ingleside, which is to say that it's very different from the first five books in the Anne series. I found that it also lacks much of the charm of the others, largely because the narrative drifts between several characters instead of focusing on Anne, the former protagonist. And although these characters are quite well-rounded, they nevertheless lack Anne's sparkle.
The novel leisurely meanders through everyday life, and while this works e...more
The novel leisurely meanders through everyday life, and while this works e...more
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Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.
The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911...more
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The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911...more
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