I read this entire one last night, staying up much too late -- what is summer for, if not that? I just had to find out what happens with Anne and Gilbert, and whether or not he recovers from typhoid. Not that I didn't know -- but it's the experience, after all. Again, I was adult-impressed with Montgomery's ability to transform life stages into Anne's life, college in this case, and to transform even her idealism into something so much more beautiful in real life. College is really a bubble time, when life is focused and you have the chance to think more than *do*. I still bawled with Ruby's death -- that impacted me greatly when I was younger, and I understand why even more now. I loved Phil as a character, too, though I hadn't realized how wicked and how wonderful she was when I read them before. After I was finished, I crawled into bed next to my sleeping husband and was very, very happy.