DNF (read half of it)

I know this is a children's book, still, it's no excuse to write such lousy and despicable characters. (Except uncle Jimmy ofc)

I've lost count of the number of times I wrote: بمیر بابا in the margins of this shitty book.
I deal with enough shitbrain boomers in my life and don't have to waste my free time reading about them abuse a child like this. It's so sad and disgusting to think Emily's condition is normal-- the constant nagging and abuse of her guardians? the way they never show any love for her and think it's weak to do so? the way they never believe a word she says and always argue with her and blame her for simple things she does? and don't give me that "oOOoOH but back then they had different upbringing style" bullshit. I've read classics and this is by far one of the worst ones. And the fact that it's almost always psychological and mental torture makes it way worse. yes, torture. EMILY IS TORTURED IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. I wouldn't last a day in her place. and to be dragged in this hell life after loosing your very loving dad and hear your family insult him on every given occasion? just horrible.

and listen, I wouldn't be so mad if the writer actually condemned their behavior and acknowledged the fact that they're abusive, but she thinks Emily somehow has to endure this bullshit, be the bigger person and just keep up with her abusive family. ugh. just ugh.

Also, Dean Priest was still a creepy bastard. hated every second of his presence in the book. disgusting groomer.

Reading this made me wish I had ambitions, unfortunately, I am just a pathless wanderer.

Reread: still don’t have any ambitions but I do have a path to wander (feels worse somehow). I love Emily very much, I love her love for writing and nature and little things like her room and trinkets.

"Oh, I can see your whole life, Emily, here in a place like this where people can't see a mile beyond their nose."
"I can see farther than that," said Emily, putting up her chin. "I can see to the stars."

Besides continuing Emily and her friends’ journey through the high school years, this book celebrates all that is mysterious, beautiful, and wonderful about home, love, nature, art, and creativity. And there are plenty of more great laugh-out-loud moments! I am loving this series.

This was an amazing read!

Emily Climbs is, in many ways, an expansion of some of the Anne stories. But Emily's scrapes have real stakes. She has a fiery personality that gets her into honest trouble. While she does work hard, I can't help but feel judged by her prejudices, her aching sense of class. Perhaps I'm too "Yankeefied" for that, but I was born and bred in the USA, and class distinctions just aren't the same here. Since the Emily books creeped me out as a child, I felt justified when Emily writes about how her "second sight" creeps her out, too.

In many ways, Emily is still insufferably prideful. She's so conscious of her family, yet she despises most of them most of the time. She holds herself above others in that ~not like other girls~ way. Ilse is her closest girl friend, and Ilse is absolutely not like other girls. I can't let a heroine like Emily into my heart for good. I always have the door cracked when she's there, in case she finds me beneath her and needs to make a hasty exit. And that's hardly the best way to enjoy a novel.

Yet, after all this, Emily's voice and struggles and perceptions are still enjoyable, if not heartwarming. Montgomery's consolatory writing about nature sends me into ecstasies. Emily's friends are heaps more interesting than Anne's, even if I like them less. Perry is insufferable (and so is Emily's classless, class-conscious attitude toward him), Ilse is one of those people who has memes saying "Don't let anyone tell you you're too much" on her Pinterest board while not realizing her too much-ness comes from hurting other people's feelings, and Teddy is sweet but barely present in the narrative. Yet, they are always up to something, and chummy despite Ilse's snubs and Perry's braggadocio and Teddy's mother. Once more, Montgomery gives the nastiest adult in the narrative a chance to be understood, if not loved, and seeing Aunt Ruth finally stand up for Emily was cathartic. We don't get the same justice for some of the smaller villainesses in the book, unfortunately, and that leaves part of the narrative feeling thin.

What I really enjoyed were Emily's literary struggles, her gumption, and her growth in accepting criticism and rejection. If Montgomery did fall back on clannishness, as she so often does, well, I can't say I wasn't prepared for it. Clannishness was absent from the core of the Anne books because the Cuthberts had nearly died out, Anne was an orphan, and the Blythes were so rarely present; when it came out in the Pringles and Sloanes, they were reprehensible for it. Many of Montgomery's short stories deal with clannishness in one way or another, and A Tangled Web is her most clannish novel. Seeing the Murray clannishness from the inside made me wonder how Anne would have seen Emily. Somehow, I don't think they would truly have been friends. Emily would have competed with Anne, and Anne would have not made it through a fight with Emily. The specter of Dean Priest is often present in Emily Climbs, but we get a merciful break from his insufferable opinions and disturbing attraction to a child. Grooming much?

Emily will never be my favorite heroine, but I must admit, this cover is one of my favorites in my whole library.

I am so glad I found all my aunt's old L.M. Montgomery books in her closet at my grandfather's house. They date from 1920 to 1948, and they are some of my prized possessions, definitely my most treasured books. I have read them so many times, and will most likely again. Lucy Maud is my favourite writer in her style. She makes me want to write, I have to write, the way Emily does in this series, when I read her works. This is the second in the three Emily books, and while I liked the first one the very best, I can't give any less than the top billing for them all. Like Anne, Emily's story never fades and gets less interesting. I wanted to know more about her after reading the first one, does she get to write after all, living amongst people who are against who she is and wants to be? Does Teddy Kent take her heart, or is Perry Miller the winner in the end? It is so nice to find a writer that I can trust to never let me down.

خاله روت با لحنی سرد و دلسوزانه گفت:《خیلی بد است که تو اینقدر زود ذوق میکنی،امیلی.

Emily Byrd Starr climbs the "Alpine Path" in this second novel devoted to her story, following upon n  Emily of New Moonn, and preceding n  Emily's Questn. Determined to persevere in her writing, Emily knows that further education is vital, but is convinced that her guardian - stern Aunt Elizabeth Murray of New Moon farm - will never consent. Imagine her surprise and delight when she discovers that she will have an opportunity to attend high school in nearby Shrewsbury! Delight, that is, until she learns the price: she must give up writing stories for three years...

L.M. Montgomery has always been one of my favorite authors, and I recall reading and enjoying the entire Emily Trilogy as a young adolescent, taking its sensitive heroine - with her close circle of friends, her entertaining adventures and misadventures, and her growing talent - very much to heart. I relished Montgomery's intensely descriptive language and romantic sensibility, and identified with Emily's almost mystical appreciation of beauty, and desire to be a writer. I joined her in her contempt for the false Evelyn Blakes of the world, mourned with her when a poem or story was rejected by a magazine, and thrilled with her when one was accepted!

Revisiting these books as an adult, as part of the L.M. Montgomery Book Club to which I belong, I have discovered that my appreciation for them, always strong, has been bolstered by a better understanding of the social constraints of their time. Nowhere is this more evident than in this second installment of the series, where Emily finds herself in hot water when her friend Perry steals a kiss, and is almost made a social outcast after a dangerous snow-storm forces her to take shelter in an abandoned house with her good friend Ilse Burnley and (horrors!) two young men. The fact that Emily is often described as Montgomery's most autobiographical creation, makes me wonder if the author was deliberately making a point here, about the absurdity of her own society's obsession with respectability.

However that may be, Emily Climbs has retained its place in my literary affections, while also yielding some surprising social commentary that escaped me as a younger reader. I'm glad to have reread it, and look forward to revisiting the third installment!

Cada capítulo que leía, Emily se me hacía más parecida a Anne de Anne with an E. Pero Emily tiene una personalidad y una forma de crianza en la que trata de evitar los escándalos.
Me gusta mucho la pluma de la escritora. Como su personaje está llena de vida, de sueños y de imaginación. Deja lecciones importantes y frases hermosas. Si bien es la autora transcurre y es escrita en otra época, tiene enseñanzas que se pueden aplicar a través del tiempo.

This was probably my fourth or fifth re-read of my favorite of the Emily trilogy... *cough* I came at it with a more critical eye than when I first read it (at 11... which was 10 years ago... okay wow) and I concede that a great deal of Emily's personality is a Mary-Sue-ish wish fulfillment on L.M. Montgomery's part, and the romantic tension between her and Teddy seems a little contrived and unnecessary. But it's still a lovely book and maintains the level of dreamy whimsicality that one expects from a Montgomery novel, and several parts are downright hilarious. Also, Dean Priest is a creep. The end.

I love school books and this is a good one. As ever though, Dean Priest is the WORST and if people want examples of actual bad behavior of adults towards children, they should see this series.

I couldn't put it down.