Oh Anne, you wonderfully bold and beautiful gal Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I’m going out to collect it… I just love seeing the woman Anne's grown into. She's finished college, runs her own little school and is in constant correspondence with her fiance, Gilbert. “Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.” For the first time, we have a bit of switching perspectives - Anne in third person throughout the novel and in first person as we read her letters

Possibly 3.5/5 but idk yet.I still really enjoyed this book because Anne is my FAVE, but I think the back and forth between her letters to Gilbert and third person narrative was a little bit much. I didn't really love that switch and I missed Gilbert throughout this book, though I understand why he wasn't in it!I still love Anne as a character DEARLY and I will honestly love her forever. She is so kind and compassionate and lovely and just EVERYTHING.

I loved this one. I think at the beginning I was a little skeptical, especially since Montgomery kept omitting the parts where Anne "had the right pen" to write love letters to Gilbert. I wanted to READ Anne's love letters!But for all that, I loved the characters in this book. Rebecca Dew cracked me up, as did Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, with their buttermilk secrets; Dusty Miller the cat; Katherine Brooke; Nora Nelson and Jim Wilcox; little Elizabeth; Cyrus Taylor (oh, but that was a hilarious e...

~4.5 stars~I wasn’t too sure about how I would like this book once I realized that most of it was just Anne’s letters to Gilbert—But I was pleasantly surprised by how much I did enjoy it! It could definitely be a little slow in some areas, and I don’t think it is in any way my favorite out of the series as a whole, but I am still glad I decided to continue on with this beautiful series that L.M. Montgomery has created ^_^ I am looking forward to reading the fifth book really soon because of (vie...

So far, this is my favorite Anne book in the series. I fell head over heels listening to this book on audio. A cast of characters that exceeded any cast in the series so far (which is hard to believe-- I know). Anne goes to Summerside to be a principal while her betrothed Gilbert is in med school. The book is mostly comprised of letters to Gilbert about the goings-on in Summerside. Rebecca Dew might just be my absolute favorite character in the series so far. I just loved her and her snarky ways...

5+ stars & 7/10 hearts. I never know just how to write a review of the Anne books, because they are so good and I love them so much. This one is a sudden shift from the old familiar friends and dwells upon completely new folk. It’s very nice to see all these new people... little Elizabeth and the widows and Rebecca Dew and Katherine and Lewis and... just all of them! They’re all so real and humorous and beautiful and living. Just like all the books, I don’t agree with everything, but it’s beauti...

This is a classic middle grade, and this is the 4th book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Some of this book is written as letters. I love the letters parts. I did really like this book, but I have to say I loved Anne of Green Gables so much more then this book. Some of the characters in this book I do not think is very developed. (*)

3.5 rounded to 4Anne Shirley is once again away from Avonlea. Now that she's completed her B.A. at Redmond College, she lives at Windy Poplars and is the principal at Summerside High School. This story covers her three-year stay in Summerside away from Gilbert Blythe, who's a medical student at Redmond College.A lot of the story is told in letters from Anne to Gilbert during this three-year period. That was an interesting change from the storytelling style in the first three books. I did, howeve...

Fourth in the Anne of Green Gables series and I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did the others. Anne is now in her early twenties, engaged and away from home and Gilbert. Anne is teaching for three years and this book is 80% letters to her family and Gilbert. Some parts of the letters are omitted for privacy reasons which is an interesting concept for fictional characters. I am looking forward to the next book though when Anne is back where she belongs.

4.5 stars!I. LOVE. THESE. BOOKS. Are they perfect? No. Are they very much enjoyable nevertheless? YES! Things I liked: I really loved Anne’s newfound maturity in this book. She’s still the young, imaginative, energetic, loving, enthusiastic Anne we know and love, but the life lessons she learned in the previous book have settled in and I really liked how grounded she was, and how secure in her engagement to Gilbert. Unlike in the previous book, there was never a time when I wanted to take her by...

~ DNF @ 31% ~My fatal flaw as a reader is DNFing books that I picked up at a wrong time rather than books I dislike. And this is one of the situations. I didn't get the relief of the warm feeling I went into this wanting and craving. This book was written differently than the first 3, and quite frankly doesn't hold the same magic to it. I'm not completely sure if I even want to revisit this series in the future, but for now, I am content pretending like this series is a trilogy

When I read the 3rd book in the Anne of green gables series I said that I hoped to get to this soon. It took me almost a year but better late then never I guess. While this is either my least favorite in the series or I've been away from the series to long. I still loved the cozy and humble reading experience. I couldn't stand the Netflix series but in these books I absolutely adore Anne.

"Oh, it's good … good … good to be home again!"Once again I was pleasantly surprised by L. M. Montgomery, who it seems never fails to make it interesting irrespective of the circumstances. The different approach of narration using letters from Anne to Gilbert was a nice bit of change.Almost all the characters were new this time around, and with very little reference to happenings at Green Gables. But all new characters were fascinating. And, though emotional, glad to have found a happy ending to...

Now while Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Windy Poplars is considered the fourth of the Anne of Green Gables stories according to the timeline of Anne Shirley's life (and describes with both meticulously descriptive detail and often very much delightful, sometimes even wickedly hilarious humour her three years teaching at a girl's academy in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, whilst her fiancé Gilbert Blythe is studying to be a doctor), Anne of Windy Poplars is actually the second to last novel of...

I finished it. -- The writing was... lacking description quite a few times. It also was all over the place. I didn't see much need for the formatting of telling stories through the letters. I didn't like that too much.-- It was rather pointless... I love the Anne books and will finish the series, of course, but this was like a little book of stories I really didn't care about. There were a ton of characters. 90% of them were totals jerks so I was speed-reading most of the time. Overall, I didn't...

"Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old." I see by the reviews that a lot of Anne-fans are disappointed in this one. On this, my third reading, I must admit that I was, too. I think it is the lack of the "old familiar." Anne is away, serving as principal of a school in Summerside. Gilbert is far, far away, studying medicine. Other than letters, there is no repartee between the two. Avonlea, and her beloved residents, is only visited during the holidays and summer breaks. The...

Not to be dramatic, but me not loving this book is the saddest worst thing that has ever happened to me or anyone, ever, in the history of the world. Also the most surprising.Yes, I may have an average rating of 2.95, and yes, I may be well used to being disappointed in life, and yes, maybe this is actually not a very sad or bad thing at all, let alone in the context of the history of human suffering.But if I admitted that, I’d have to rewrite the opening of this review, and that, my dear, is ne...

Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables #4), L.M. MontgomeryThe novel features a series of letters Anne sends to her intended, Gilbert Blythe, who is completing medical school. Chronologically, the book is fourth in the series, but it was the seventh book written.Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let...

I am pretty disappointed with this one. I mean, in comparison to the first three books in this series, this one was rather weak. Unfortunately, it just didn't keep me interested enough to thoroughly enjoy it, even if this series is reminiscent to my childhood.The writing itself was lacking any kind of interesting description, the plot was confusing and pretty much all over the place and for me, telling the story through half written letters to Gilbert, really didn't work.I do enjoy the Anne of g...

In a word....disappointing. It was good enough to finish. but it took 2 or 3 weeks to get through. This is a good indication of my interest level, because really great books keep me up at night until I finish them. This one....not so much.I didn't care for the style--half letters from Anne to Gilbert, and half third-person, with no good reason to switch back and forth between the two. There are a ton of new characters, but the sheer volume precludes any satisfying character development. Anne see...