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Anne of Avonlea (September 2020)
By Mariah Roze · 7 posts · 39 views
By Mariah Roze · 7 posts · 39 views
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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
2.75|5 🏘 2022 TBR
ANNE OF AVONLEA by Lucy Maud Montgomery is the second book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Anne is sixteen and becomes the teacher at the local school. As she becomes an adult, she faces new challenges and her blossoming feelings for the handsome (but, oh so exasperating) Gilbert Blythe.
As always, the setting is the beautiful Prince Edward Island on the east coast of Canada, which is near and dear to my heart because my husband grew up there and it is also the place we plan to move to once ...more
Anne is sixteen and becomes the teacher at the local school. As she becomes an adult, she faces new challenges and her blossoming feelings for the handsome (but, oh so exasperating) Gilbert Blythe.
As always, the setting is the beautiful Prince Edward Island on the east coast of Canada, which is near and dear to my heart because my husband grew up there and it is also the place we plan to move to once ...more
I wasn't sure if I would love this next book in the Anne series as much as I did as a child, but lo and behold, I did. This is distinctly different than the first one because Anne is much more adult and her relationships are evolving as is her career and role at Green Gables but there is still just so much to love moving forward in the series. I especially love the twins in this one and Anne and Diana and their Avonlea mprovement society and all of the new characters in Green Gables. This is a b
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I was worried that this book wouldn't live up to the first one, but it's so fantastic. Where the first book focused on Anne and her little family, this one broadens the scope to tell the reader more about Avonlea and some of its other inhabitants (in the context of them interacting with Anne). And I love the variety and the honesty of well-meaning children behaving badly and the elder members of the community who are resistant to change. ❤️
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Read my full review here.
Reading Anne is like going on an adventure; it’s like stepping into an alternate reality which resembles a fairytale. Montgomery describes nature almost as if it’s magic, and that makes the book seem even more special. Also, there were times when Montgomery would directly address the reader which rather made the book seem even more like a conversation between writer and reader.
It’s really great when you can see a genuine growth in a character from one book to another. Th ...more
Reading Anne is like going on an adventure; it’s like stepping into an alternate reality which resembles a fairytale. Montgomery describes nature almost as if it’s magic, and that makes the book seem even more special. Also, there were times when Montgomery would directly address the reader which rather made the book seem even more like a conversation between writer and reader.
It’s really great when you can see a genuine growth in a character from one book to another. Th ...more
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