Now that I’m halfway through the Anne series, I can say that it’s been a deeply delightful journey. The second half of the series chronicles Anne’s adult married life, and I’ll be curious to see how reading it for the first time since I’ve been married will change my views on the next four books. Anne has finally married her beloved Gilbert Blythe and they have set off to start their new life together in Four Winds Harbor, far from her beloved Green Gables. As […]
The ghostliest Anne book yet
This chronicle in the Anne series has a special memory for me: I read it for the first time when on my trip to see my grandma in California back in 1994. I read this book twice on that trip, in fact. I remember chatting with my seatmate about it on the plane back. And so when I read this book, I am transported every time to that summer in 1994. It’s a haunted book, which makes sense, as Montgomery peoples her book with ghosts […]
One of my favorite times in life–and Anne’s.
College was one of my favorite periods of life, so naturally it makes sense that I would enjoy Anne’s college story, as well. We find ourselves outside Avonlea but with interesting new surroundings and chums, so there’s a familiarity with this stage in Anne’s life. Anne has left Avonlea and even Prince Edward Island to go to Redmond College in Nova Scotia. She overcomes her homesickness and finds studies and purpose in life. She makes delightful new friends, including the indecisive but sweet Philippa Gordon. […]
Less fun than I remembered as a kid.
Reading this second book in the Anne series was much different than my times in years past. I think that adulthood can give you a different perspective on childhood than when you were a kid, but you also notice things you might have missed when you were a kid, as well. Either way, while this was a good book, I think it might actually be my least favorite in the series. Anne Shirley has graduated from Queen’s Academy and has deferred her admission to Redmond […]
A return to a beloved childhood favorite
I first read Anne of Green Gables in the summer between third and fourth grade. It was love at first sight. That summer of 1994 was filled with the Anne books, and I re-read the series many, many times over the years. It’s been about six or seven years since my last re-read, and I was in need of something comforting. melanir and the new Anne show on Netflix (which, for the record, I’ve really been liking, even considering its darker tone and some maddening […]
A Final Trip to Green Gables
I wanted to like this book more then I did. Of all the Anne books, this is the one most distant from Anne herself, which is saying something considering she practically disappeared in the last couple of books bearing her name. This is a collection of short stories, most of which had been published previously, which Montgomery slightly altered to fit the Blythes in somehow (it’s more obvious in some stories then others) and then connected with a few poems and smaller pieces of Anne reading […]