Splendidly delightful! This is not quite the same Anne we first met in Green Gables but a maturing and horizons-broadened Anne. The new characters she meets while away at college add depth to the ongoing story; but her connections to Avonlea remain ever strong. I love Davy's letters describing his many plights. I positively love these books even more as an adult now!

This volume of Anne’s life covers her years at Redmond College earning her B.A. Despite this, it’s far more concerned with her love life and the lives of her friends, both old and new, than her studies.

Yes, it’s predictable (there’s an attempted fake-out towards the end that fails to be in any way convincing) and a little bit twee (most Anne fans wouldn’t have it any other way, of course) but it’s also very funny and devastatingly sad in places. For all its faults, this may be my favourite Anne book so far.

Can't stop won't stop reading this series. Anne is just so delightful.

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Molto più bello del secondo, anche se comunque un po' lento nei primissimi capitoli. Ad ogni modo in questo terzo volume della saga di Anna ci troviamo di fronte la vita universitaria della protagonista, ma soprattutto davanti i primi amori. Anne of the Island è incentrato soprattuto sull'amore e sui cambiamenti che molti personaggi a noi cari subiranno. C'è chi si sposerà e avrà addirittura bambini, altri invece che ci lasceranno, insomma come sempre ci troviamo di fronte un libro ricco di gioie, ma anche di dolori. Anna comunque è un personaggio in cui mi rispecchio completamento, anche in questo capitolo l'ho trovata molto affine a me e sta diventando una delle mie protagoniste femminili preferite! Gilbert invece è sempre di una dolcezza inaudita e tal proposito vorrei dire solo una cosa riguardante il finale: ODINO GRAZIE, ERA ORA!

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از دور نگاه کردن به دلخوشی‌های کودکی و نوجوانی و درک اینکه چقدر خالص و بی‌آلایش بودن زیباست و قلب آدم رو لمس میکنه، ولی غمِ قابل درک و عمیقی رو هم به همراه داره، غمِ اینکه که تغییر، یک موضوع اجتناب‌ ناپذیره در همه‌ی ابعاد زندگی، از دست‌دادن اسباب‌بازی‌های بچگی و معمولی‌شدن دلخوشی‌هایی که یه زمانی برامون دنیایی بودن تا دغدغه‌هایی که هیچ‌وقت فکر نمیکردیم یه روزی مهم بشن و قراره اینقدر بزرگ بشیم.
نگاه‌ کردن به آدم‌ها در گذر زمان هم، پُر از غم و شادیه، غمِ اینکه شاید دیگه نتونیم مثل قبل کنار و همراهشون باشیم، دوستشون‌ داشته باشیم و شادیِ دیدن موفقیت‌ها، لبخند‌ها و تغییرات مثبتی که پیدا کردن.

گذر زمان و بزرگ ‌شدن بیشترین چیزی بود که توی این جلد میشد حسش کرد، شخصیت‌هایی که قبلاً فارغ از هر چیزی خیال‌پردازی میکردن و روحشون رهاتر از هرکسی در گرین گیبلز به پرواز درمیامد، اینجا میشد رشد‌کردن و تغییرشون رو دید، خود واقعیشون رو دید.

بنظرم بی‌نهایت زیبا بود این جلد چون زندگی واقعی رو بیشتر از همیشه به رخ می‌کشید و این باعث میشد بیشتر حس مشترک بین خودت و شخصیت‌ها پیدا کنی، درکش کنی و قابل لمس‌تر باشه.

این جلد هیچ کم و کاستی نداشت. در تمام زمینه‌ها عالی بود.!
حس زیبایی و شیرینی و جذابیت خاصی داشت.
مرسی مونتگمری عزیز که باعث شدی در دنیای آنی‌شرلی غرق بشیم و لحظات نابی رو باهاش سپری کنیم.

Continuing my friendship with Anne with the third book in the series, I had the same surefire calm vacation experience as I've done reading the ones before. There's not much to be said about a new Anne book - other than the fact that if you've enjoyed one of them, you'll probably enjoy another too. There was only one thing slightly off in this one for me - it's supposed to be a book about Anne in college. And yet - Anne's college goes by without... any college. I feel like we don't hear about it at all. It's just her life during the summers and her house. And what's this about killing dogs and cats?..

However, I have to admit that the romance is n  absolutely perfect!n I'm not a romance reader, so I thought Anne and Gilbert's love story to be done absolutely perfectly in its modesty and minimal approach. It's just so heartwarming, true and cozy. Just what I would have imagined for Anne!

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Ah the comfort of going back to Green Gables never ceases; it is always a pleasant and gracious read.

As always, we start with a meaningful and thoughtful quote:

“All precious things discovered late,
To those that see them issue forth.
For love in sequel work with fate,
And draws the veil from bidden worth” - Tennyson

The perfect quote to kick off a novel where it seems everyone is pairing up! Diana is getting married, Gilbert proposes, Roy and Anne find romance. Love is a force to be reckoned with in this novel.

Meanwhile, even though Anne has left Prince Edward Island for college on the mainland, we still get regular updates and visits back to Green gables. Most of the letters to Anne come via Davy, who is still a mischievous but charming little boy. He just melts my heart; especially when he writes his letters. In one of them he tells Anne of what his perfect wife would be life and also asks if the “devil has a father?”

خوبیه کتاب صوتی اینه که توو تمام اوقات بیکاری می تونی گوش بدی و زود تموم میشه
کتاب سوم رو هم تموم کردم و برای چندمین بار لذت بردم
صدای مریم پاک ذات دلنشین و گیراس
هر چند یکی دوجا متن رو اشتباه خوند اما پیش میاد و از زیبایی کار کم نشد.

Lots of Gilbert. Very good thing to read during life transitions. Relatable people (especially Phil and Anne). I am afraid I'm going to start talking like Anne if I keep reading these books. Ruby very very sad.