Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
Anne has become a secondary character....in her own book. So hopping mad right now. Like she was literally shuffled off to the side in ANNE of Ingleside. And what do we get is a book following her myriad of precocious (read: annoying) children. Seriously, every child is so pious, truthful, kind and considerate that it makes me want to gag.I firmly believe that this is not the same Anne of Green Gables. She's been replaced body-snatcher style. All personality and whimsy was ironed out, and we
Reading this book after so many years is like visiting a childhood haunt after many years to find only that it was not so big, not so beautiful, not so miraculous, not so mysterious, as it was then. It is like spending your early life thinking your parents are the height of perfection, compared to the day they begin to have visible (sometimes glaring) flaws. I know that this all comes full-circle in adulthood and that the day returns when you look again at your parents, at the old childhood hau
The next book in the true Anne of Green Gables series and weirdly my least favorite of the books. We meet Anne and Gilbert many years later and Anne has quite the brood now. She has 5 children and the love of her life, what could possibly go wrong?I miss Anne's antics in this book. We get to meet some of her children- Jem, Walter, Nan, and Diana oh and baby Bertha Marilla (really?). They are adorable and some of their adventures had memories of Anne's beginnings, but I missed Anne in this book.
While this wasn’t THE most exciting of the series, it was still great fun to follow the kids’ journeys through life, and even the adults too. You can tell how the kids all got a bit of Anne’s personality.
I'm sad to say that I'm done with this series. Where has Anne gone? I wanted her to evolve into a badass feminist who stopped stereotyping and was progressive, not someone who gave up on her dreams to become a housewife. I was also enraged in the first chapter by the negativity surrounding Diana's weight (who weighs the same as me) and how this made me feel. Each sequel has let me down and I wish I had stopped after book one because it is truly the only treasure in the series. Many of the subseq...
Anne has disappeared by this point in the series and become a matronly woman with a brood of kids. The book focuses mainly on the trials and tribulations of her incredibly moral children and the town gossip, and we've lost some of the best characters like Rachel Lynde, Marilla, Davy, etc by this time as well.I felt myself "hankering" after Avolea and the Anne that was before she married...It just sort of dragged by with description after description of the seasons, the house, the nosy housekeepe...
Ok so I finished this about a month ago maybe and I'm only just now getting to writing a review haha, but Goodreads won't let me enter the finished date for some reason...The only date that works is today's date which is kind of strange lol Oh well XD I know y'all probably don't care about that hahaI really enjoyed reading this at a slower pace and carrying it around everywhere with me at college. I felt like it was a good thing that I read it slower so I could appreciate the story more...I was
Full (mini) review now posted!It’s fun to watch someone grow from a child into an adult with children of their own. Anne of Green Gables is now Anne of Ingleside, and her home is filled with life and laughter. She is a wife settled into her marriage, and is now the mother of a whole passel of children. This group of kids is incredibly varied in looks and personality, but they’re all children of imagination and character, like their parents. This book is mainly a collection of tales in the childr...
Albeit there is nothing that I would consider actually terribly "wrong" with L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Ingleside, I also have never really managed to enjoy this particular Anne of Green Gables story all that much. And I guess that my lack of personal reading pleasure stems mostly from the fact that there just is not nearly enough Anne Blythe (Anne Shirley) in Anne of Ingleside and conversely rather too much information and details not only about Anne's children (which I actually have not found a...
Anne of Ingleside? More like Anne's annoying children of Ingleside!Because Anne is barely in this, but a million of her offspring are, and all of them suck.This is more a series of vignettes about angelic and cherubic children with lisps and rambunctious tendencies who are never punished and eat approximately 6 desserts a day than it is a novel.These kids are so pure and holy. It's a snooze and a goddamn shame.But even ignoring that, there is so much to hate about this.For one thing, all of the
"Well, that was life. Gladness and pain, hope and fear, and change. Always change, you could not help it. You had to let the old go, and take the new to your heart. Learn to love it, and then let it go in turn."
Book six of the Green Gables series.I read that by the time the author got to this book she was sick of Anne and this book was a half hearted effort for contractual obligations. After reading it I'm inclined to believe it, chapters are filled with absolutely nothing. Anne now has a family of six so the children lead the majority of chapters which probably saved the book on some level. With two books left of the series I'm interested to see how these are going to go.
3 stars = Didn't hate, but didn't fall in love like with most of the previous books. This was probably my least favorite book in the Anne series so far. Usually the positives in these books outweigh the negatives for me, but in this one they were about half and half. I’ll cover the negative first, and then follow up with the positives so that I end my review on a good note, because that’s how I prefer to end things.Negatives: For one thing, I found it jarring that 7 or 9 years (I was really conf...
Anne and Gilbert have been married for fifteen years and have six children. Their lives are busier and happier than ever, but not without the challenges of everyday life.What I liked about this story is simply being able to get a glimpse into middle-aged Anne's life as a wife and mother. She's a busy and kind mother, very much loved by all her family. The situations and emotions she faces in this stage of her life, are still relevant today. What I didn't like is that Anne is a secondary characte...
Anne laughed. "We never need to be economical in our imaginations, thank heaven."Quite a few years have passed, and Anne is now the mother of five children, with another one on the way. Her life is full and busy, and, for the most part, happy. This is the book where Montgomery begins to shift her attention from Anne to Anne's tribe of children. Anne becomes little more than a peripheral character in the last two books in the series, as her exploits are now limited to her role as a wife and mothe...
Given my wholehearted love of Anne and L.M. Montgomery, it probably seems surprising that I have given Anne of Ingleside such a low rating. I have a few reasons for doing so, which I'll list here. But first I'll start off with what I do love about this sixth installment in the Anne series.Two words: Susan Baker. I absolutely love Susan. She became my favorite character of this series when she was first introduced in book five, and she's remained my favorite until the end. She's just as wonderful...
Where is Anne of Green Gables, and who is this dull matron with no apparent inner life?This book was a slog, but it's hardly surprising, since, in my understanding, Montgomery was plagued by her publishers for more Anne crapola, and this was the result. Though her descriptive passages of view and season are stunning as ever, that's about all that can be said for this work.I am rather troubled by a tendency of reviewers here to criticize the character of Anne by railing against their perception o...
I was truly disappointed.I've read an love Anne of Green Gables for so many years that it never occurred me that I would not love all of these books.I remember reading these books as a kid and loving every second I spent with Anne, I also remember that the "grown-up" books weren't to my liking, I really didn't like Anne growing up when I was young. Back then I though it's because she was a grown women, but today I get why I might not have like this particular book when I was younger.It is so rep...
Very highly recommend! It's a lot about Anne's family in general, but her children are the most adorable ever and I loved seeing Anne interact with Gilbert once more (because I've probably, with no exaggeration, read books about Anne 50 times. I don't even feel guilty about it). If you've read and loved Anne of Green Gables, I would strongly recommend the entire series, because although they can't have the magical perfection of the first book, they're all amazing and filled with gorgeous charact...
I set out to read the full Anne of Green Gables series (I bought the set at a yard sale). But this one was the last I could take for a while. The author has difficulty making it clear who her audience is. Is it children who want stories about other children, or is it people who have grown up with Anne and want to know more about her ongoing life? As the book begins, it seems to be the latter audience, but it soon becomes clear it's the former. She starts this book in Avonlea, and we see Anne's c...