امیلی برد.استار! واقعا خودتو تو دلم جا کردی دختر.

شخصیت امیلی بشدت برام جذاب و خاص بود. کنجکاوی و ماجراجویی هاش، عشقش به نوشتن و توصیف کردن همه چیز، جسور و شجاع بودنش و ایستادگی در مقابل ظلم و بی عدالتی از ویژگی‌های این دختر دوست‌داشتنی عه. ✨
میتونم بگم حتی بیشتر از آن شرلی ازش خوشم اومده. علاقش به گربه ها هم که جای خود دارد...
فرایند بزرگ و عاقل شدنش تا آخر کتاب ادامه داشت و خیلی برام شیرین بود. خوشحالم که در تجربیات امیلی باهاش شریک شدم.

I wish viciously that I'd read this as a child, because goodness, there is so much here that brought back what it felt like to be enraptured by words, and thinking that putting them together was the single best thing I could do with my life. How wonderful Emily is. Extraordinary. Big sigh.

3.5 Starr (jeje)

Emily la de Luna Nueva nos cuenta la historia de Emily Starr, una niña que quedó huérfana y es acogida por dos de sus tías, y nos narra su día a día en esta nueva casa, Luna Nueva, y como interactúa con sus amigos, escribe, hace poesía, resuelve misterios, y a veces le pasan cosas raras...

No voy a mentir, comparé cada aspecto del libro con Ana la de Tejas Verdes... es que no podía hacer otra cosa, Ana me encanta y pues siendo la misma autora yo tenia que hacerlo, lo siento. Pudiera hacer una comparativa pero no es el caso, solamente daré mi opinión sobre el libro, la historia y los personajes.

La historia en general me gustó, no le llega a Ana bebé pero estuvo entretenida, me atrasé un poco con este libro por cuestiones académicas, aunque es mas bien un pretexto, el inicio se me hizo lento y me parecía que ya había visto la historia y los personajes en Ana, pero aun así continúe con mis esperanzas de que hubiera algún cambio que me hiciera querer a Emily, no como a Ana, pero que al menos se ganara mi cariño (aún no ha pasado, pero no pierdo la fe).

Ya avanzando en la historia me di cuenta que aunque los personajes compartieran aspectos de su personalidad con algunos otros que ya había leído de la autora, y que la premisa de inicio sea parecida, la historia tiende a ser diferente, pues Emily se distingue de Ana siendo más introvertida y más sensata, y además que el ambiente en sí no es tan ideal como en Ana, vaya, es más serio e incluso se tocan temas que en Ana jamás se ven, como el tema de los novios, el matrimonio y gatos haciendo gatitos.

De la mano del ambiente más maduro, por así decirlo, están dos temas que me hacen ruido. Por un lado, está el hecho que abundan, enserio, abundan, los hombres mayores que se sienten atraídos por Emily, conté cinco, y las escenas en donde ella está a solas con ellos me incomodaban mucho, pues Emily tiene como 12 años, y la autora solo narraba como a ellos les parecía una chiquilla muy guapa, bonita e interesante, incluso un wey hasta menciona, que será su marido, que su vida le pertenece, además de que quiere besarla. El otro tema que me incomoda, es la mamá de Teddy, esa señora que se siente celosa por aquellas personas, animales y objetos a los que su hijo les preste demasiada atención. I mean, ahogó dos gatos porque su hijo los quería, umm... ¿Hola?

Dejando de lado el último párrafo, la historia me entretuvo, L. M. no pierde su estilo, ya quiero saber como sigue la vida de Emily y sus amigos, todos tienen sueños muy claros y solo quiero verlos triunfar... ya veremos.

«اگر غریزه‌ات می‌گوید صخره‌نوردی کنی پس چاره دیگری نداری. بعضی‌ها فقط چشم به نوک قله دارند.اینها توی دره نمی‌توانند نفس بکشند خدا کمکشان کند که برای بالا‌رفتن از کوه دچار ضعف نشوند. الان یک کلمه از حرف‌هایم را نمی‌فهمی ولی ادامه بده. بالا برو!»

امیلی دخترک پر تلاش و جسوری که روی حرف و خواسته‌هاش پافشاری میکنه و به هر قیمتی که شده میخواد طبق علاقه و آرزوهاش پیش بره...
امیدوارم بهش برسه...
میرم برای شروع جلد دوم...

intensely strange first-time read, like meeting your wife's fraternal twin 30 years into ur marriage-- every review i've read of this has irritated me because imo it's deeply tragic both to be like "this quiet bookish girl is MUCH better than her POPULAR SISTER" and also to say "her sister is popular,, for a reason." anyhow, you can't mistake their mom.

and anyhow, i thought this was lovely. like i said, the voice-- it's the voice-- it's rly fuckin got the middle grade PASSIONS that lmm's peers and heirs routinely struggle to find. as a whole, this felt a little scattered in both quality and focus-- which i think sometimes works for its benefit, in a certain exploratory softness: there is an expansive and generous view of the adult cast all in their own lives, and what emily can expect of them, and how she navigates it, that kept surprising me. there is also a heavier didacticism than i expected, particularly in the first and last sections, and a frequently startling defensive tone, which does make sense in the context of the genre then and in how autobiographical it is (down to the letter excerpts apparently being inspired by lmm's own rediscovered childhood writing??) but which nevertheless disrupts ur own comfortable devotion to emily. that said, the letter excerpts, absolutely killer, i wish every book did this, ur all kings to me. when her teacher critiques her best writing??? GET HER.

also, as a book, absolutely chock-full of mean middle-aged and elderly lesbians; should be cited as a quota for all children's books; i would have expected no less. aunt elizabeth made me cry like crazy. the four fifths mark also introduces a 35yo man we are meant to like very much who expresses romantic love for our 12yo heroine and that he will wait for her to grow up to marry her and like! that kind of killed my vibe. that's the kind of back-and-forth in quality and tone i'm talking about. like, what? and why. and still!!!!! the parts of this book that sing, sing.

Though perhaps not as famous as Anne of Green Gables, this is my favorite L.M. Montgomery book (and one of my favorite books of all time).

May 2016: Re-reading for the Kindred Spirits group readalong.

August 2021 Reread for the Litsy #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead. Still my very favorite book.

همین الان تمومش کردم.
امیلی در نیومون سومین کتابی بود که از مونتگمری خوندم، داستان شیرینی داشت.
امیلی و خاله الیزابت و بحث های بینشون فوق العاده شیرین و جذاب و گاهی خنده دار بودن واسم.

This series is so dear to me! I cannot describe how much it meant to me, what a gorious friend I found in Emily, and how her journey to become a writer and a woman fit so well with my own heart and aspirations. I hope to visit these beautiful books again; Emily will be a kindred spirit for life!

It seems that L.M. Montgomery is either a hit or a miss with me. With this book, Emily of New Moon, it was definitely a miss. I did enjoy the beginning of the story, especially the loving relationship Emily had with her father. Once Emily moved in with her Aunts Elizabeth, Laura and cousin Jimmy, each chapter of the book became slightly redundant for me. I did enjoy the storyline with the friends that she made, Ilse, Teddy and Perry but it wasn’t enough for this readers overall enjoyment.

I went into this book with great expectations having read Anne of Green Gables which I wasn’t a fan of, three stars and then recently reading The Blue Castle which I truly enjoyed. Five big ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

Perhaps, as many members have said, if I read this book when I was a child, I would have enjoyed it more. Would definitely like to read something else by the author, something along the lines of The Blue Castle. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

بین نظرات خوندم که این کتاب رو میشه «زندگی بخش» توصیف کرد و کاملاااااا موافقم
میترسیدم بعد از‌خوندن کتابهای آنه شرلی دیگه این کتابی برام جذابیت نداشته باشه اما خوشحالم که شروعش کردم و فوق العاده لذت بردم

نسبت به کارهای دیگه مونتگمری دوستش نداشتم و این تکراری بودن سبک و کارکترها و ماجراها شدیدا ناخوشایند بود برام.
ولی شاید اگه آنشرلی و قصه های جزیره رو نخونده بودم نظرم چیز دیگه بود چون کلا با داستانهای تکراری نمیتونم کنار بیام وگرنه در نوع خودش قشنگ و دنج و آموزنده بود✨

When I was little, my mom passed on to me and my sister all of her glorious, hard-back books from her childhood. Louisa May Alcott, Gay Melody (look it up), and, her favorites, The Anne books. She told us how her father, the quiet newspaper editor, took her to the library and insisted she had to read about Anne Shirley. Something about the book jacket made Mom sneer, but her dad insisted, so she read it. As we all know had to happen, Mom fell in love. And when her daughters were old enough, she insisted we had to read them. Her older daughter appreciated them, but her younger daughter (yours truly) was the true kindred spirit.

Mom told me she was just sure there had been more books, but her collection stopped at Anne of Ingleside. Then one day, Mom went to the grocery store, which meant I got to go to the bookstore in the same strip mall. There it was: Rainbow Valley. Then in a few more months, my personal favorite of the Anne books, Rilla of Ingleside. A publisher had decided to re-release the Anne books. But then came more.

I'd always loved Anne. I am a kindred spirit, after all. But she and I would never have been quite bosom friends. Emily Byrd Starr, though. Oh, Emily and I are cut from the same cloth. First reading Emily of New Moon when I was about the age Emily is in that book was like coming home.

I read Emily's Quest regularly, whenever I'm feeling particularly tempestuous. But it occurred to me this weekend I don't think I've actually read the entire series from the start for many, many years. Since I'm feeling rather dark and stormy, now seemed a good time. I think it was the right choice because while I will never be able to recapture the thrill of finding Emily for the first time, I will never be sorry to spend my time with her.