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Anne of Avonlea (September 2020)
By Mariah Roze · 7 posts · 39 views
By Mariah Roze · 7 posts · 39 views
last updated Jul 10, 2025 12:53PM
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about 3.5 stars
I’ve read this several times already, the first as a young teen. This sequel to Anne of Green Gables covers two years, which is Anne ages 16-18 while she is the local school teacher.
Montgomery does a good job at making everyday life interesting—I tend to avoid everyday life in books because I get enough of it in everyday life. Still, some of the longer descriptions about nature got dull.
As a classic, it’s nice to see 19th-century people acting like people of that time. (I still ha ...more
I’ve read this several times already, the first as a young teen. This sequel to Anne of Green Gables covers two years, which is Anne ages 16-18 while she is the local school teacher.
Montgomery does a good job at making everyday life interesting—I tend to avoid everyday life in books because I get enough of it in everyday life. Still, some of the longer descriptions about nature got dull.
As a classic, it’s nice to see 19th-century people acting like people of that time. (I still ha ...more
The Anne series is one of my nostalgic favorites, and Anne of Green Gables held up to my childhood memories upon reread. This one, however, did not. The miniseries is perfection, and I will stick with that for my Avonlea memories. I had kind of forgotten the whole Davy and Dora thing, and the messed up way that both Marilla and Anne blatantly favored Davy, the low-key racism underlying parts of the book, particularly in some of Marilla’s comments, and that my favorite guy Gil is barely in this o
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I still can't believe I never read this when I was young. Loving listening to them now.
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Nov 12, 2010
Meg - A Bookish Affair
marked it as to-read
Apr 29, 2011
Sue
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
young-adult,
20th-century,
zl-crpl-cd-reread,
classics,
canada,
zl-crpl-to-check,
zq-read-2012
Jun 28, 2011
Branwen Sedai *of the Brown Ajah*
rated it
it was ok
Shelves:
junior-fiction-middle-grade-fiction
Jun 06, 2015
Sassy Sarah Reads
marked it as own-tbr
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review of another edition
Shelves:
series-to-finish,
books-i-own
Jan 30, 2018
Kathleen
marked it as to-read
Sep 19, 2018
Terri
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
classic-fiction,
writer-l-m-montgomery
Nov 06, 2018
Elizabeth Stultz
marked it as to-read
Dec 07, 2019
☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
marked it as to-read
Apr 22, 2020
Karigan
marked it as to-read
Feb 22, 2023
Katrisa
marked it as chirp
Jul 13, 2024
Jim Townsend
is currently reading it
